(CNN) -- Two civil rights groups are suing the CIA director, the defense secretary and two military commanders over two covert U.S. strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen last year.

(CNN) -- With more than half the country in some state of drought, farmers are feeling the impact on their livelihood and consumers could expect to feel a hit in their wallet when they go to the supermarket soon, experts say.

(CNN) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed what it is calling a "first-of-its-kind" lawsuit against the state, its Department of Education and one Detroit-area school district for allegedly failing to teach students to read at grade level, as mandated by state law and its constitution.

(CNN) -- In a new television ad released Tuesday, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign continues its push to get Republican challenger Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A Kansas State University researcher's analysis has found that racial profiling is intertwined with gender.

(CNN) -- Florida election officials will have access to a federal law enforcement database to challenge the eligibility of a person to vote as part of its effort to purge non-citizens from its voting rolls, state officials said.

(CNN) -- Willis Edwards, longtime president of the Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch of the NAACP and key to launching the NAACP Image Awards on national television, died Friday in Mission Hills, California, according to a spokeswoman for Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.

Torrence Hatch, the Baton Rouge, La., rapper better known to fans as Lil Boosie, faced the trial of his life in May. Charged with first-degree murder in the 2009 shooting death of Terry Boyd, Boosie stood accused of paying his friend Mike "Marlo Mike" Loudon $2,800 to carry out the hit.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- While Rosetta Miller-Perry worked for the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Memphis decades ago, her colleagues in the FBI office upstairs were secretly monitoring her, according to newly released records.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Baton Rouge judge refused Tuesday to prevent the start of a statewide voucher program that will use tax dollars to send children to private and parochial schools.