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Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration...
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Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration...
At least 47 people have died as downpours in southern China’s Guangdong province caused historic flooding and slides, state media reported Friday, while authorities warned of more extreme weather ahead in other parts of the country....
TikTok says it offered the US government the power to shut the platform down in an attempt to address lawmakers’ data protection and national security concerns....
State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement...
Washington says Moscow’s influence over company poses significant risk, as Kaspersky argues its activities do not threaten US security...
Exclusive: if ex-president succeeds, prosecutors could be left with only a sliver of evidence for obstruction charge...
The piercing scream, like a sound from a horror film, triggered taekwondo instructor Simon An to draw on his years of martial arts training....
A University of Southern California student will not face charges for the fatal stabbing of a homeless man he said was done in self-defense....
Walt Disney Co. continues to face fallout from its scuttled plans to move 2,000 California employees to a proposed Florida campus — a controversial decision the company reversed last year following the return of Chief Executive Bob Iger....
Russian authorities are imposing the Russian curriculum and Kremlin propaganda in Ukrainian schools in occupied areas of Ukraine and have retaliated against school workers if they refuse to implement the imposed Russian curriculum, a report published by Human Rights Watch days....
Millions of Americans are already shut out of buying a home, and the cost of buying one continues to rise....
A federal appeals court has denied a last-minute bid by Steve Bannon, a longtime Donald Trump adviser and prominent conservative podcaster, to stave off a four-month jail sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee three years ago....
The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is hearing arguments Friday on a long-shot defense effort to get the indictment thrown out based on the claim that the prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally appointed....
Some 13 million Americans struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Existing therapies only bring relief for a fraction of patients, and new treatments are sorely needed, according to psychiatrists wrestling with the scale of the problem. So, there was distinct disappointment when an advisory committee at the US Food...