Months after one of the country’s largest private prison companies was accused of defrauding Texas by collecting millions of dollars for in-person therapy it didn’t provide to prisoners, a state investigation found there was no fraud because prison officials sanctioned the practice....
A U.S. service member crossed into North Korea and was believed to be in the custody of the country’s forces, a U.S. official told CBS News on Tuesday. It was the United Nations Command, which operates the Joint Security Area within the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, that first said an unidentified U.S....
Blisteringly high temperatures are expected to continue across parts of southern Europe this week, as the continent braces for its second extreme heat wave, putting people’s health at risk and setting the stage for wildfires.
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...