Matt Pearce

When Gerard Ryle saw a photograph of thousands of protesters gathered outside Iceland's Parliament this week, a thought flickered through his mind: "My God. We've done this." It was true....

The story starts with a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, which sets up shell companies in offshore tax havens to protect the global elite.  After an anonymous insider leaked a...

A Brooklyn prosecutor on Wednesday asked that no jail time be given to former rookie cop Peter Liang, whose manslaughter conviction for shooting an unarmed black man was met with...

After tempting the wrath of the U.S. Justice Department, the troubled St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., has dropped its resistance to federal oversight of its Police Department and municipal...

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped out of his car on Aug. 5, 1966, in his usual dark suit and polished shoes, he was met by a line...

Powerball had a problem last year: People were bored by the idea of winning hundreds of millions of dollars. You could see it in New Jersey, where in September 2013,...

The law was clear: Cliven Bundy's cattle had been grazing on public land — illegally — for years. The Bureau of Land Management said so, and so did the U.S....