A hearing was held Monday morning in St. Louis circuit court for state Sen. Robin Wright-Jones’ suit that seeks to knock off the Aug. 7 Democratic primary ballot one of her rivals: state Rep. Jamilah ...

Missouri State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (center), D-St. Louis, leaves the St. Ann police department with her supporters on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, after being released from jail. Nasheed was arrested ...

Mohamed Nasheed, who took the oath of office today as the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, is looking for ways to protect his low-lying island nation from the threat of global warming ...

Jailed Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has been given 30 days’ leave from prison to travel to Britain for urgent surgery and was expected to leave today, the prisons chief said. Prisons ...

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney spent hours in a high security prison island in the Maldives Tuesday consulting with former president Mohamed Nasheed as part of efforts to secure his release. Clooney ...

Police in the Maldives said Friday that an explosion that wounded former president and current Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed and four others was an act of terrorism. Nasheed, 53, was wounded in ...

"President Nasheed grabbed from protesting supporters, arrested and being taken away from Fares-Mathoda," his Maldivian Democratic Party spokesman, Hamid Abdul Ghafoor, tweeted yesterday from a remote ...

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and author Tariq Nasheed were mocked on social media Tuesday after forwarding the idea that “racially coded messages” may be in “War for the Planet of the ...