Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. In an escalation of his trade war, President ...

Two employees at an Arkansas prison where an inmate known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped have been fired for policy ...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House this week to discuss negotiations over the future of ...

As part of the project, prisoners will prepare common household spices such as turmeric, coriander, Kashmiri red chilli, and ...

The trial of gangster Jamie Rothwell had to be cancelled after he was stabbed in Strangeways prison. Rothwell, a notorious ...

William Lewis Reece confessed to one killing in Oklahoma and three in Texas in 1997. All the victims were female.

A man who fired more than 100 rounds at Philadelphia police officers — striking six of them — during an hours-long standoff in North Philadelphia was sentenced Thursday to 120 to 240 years in prison, ...

In 2006, freelance journalist Josh Wolf spent 226 days in a federal prison. His crime? Refusing to turn over unpublished ...

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Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for women's and human rights in Iran, has received death threats from Tehran, the Nobel Committee said Friday.

While the internal investigation remains ongoing, spokesperson Rand Champion said he could not disclose specific details ...

Brown, who spent time on remand at Salford's Forest Bank prison, denied the more serious charge of attempting to cause ...