Haiti’s government announced Monday that it approved what it called a “war budget” of $275,000 aimed at alleviating the country’s crisis as gang violence surges.

A lawsuit that accuses Alabama prisons of illegally harvesting the organs of people who died while incarcerated will be ...

An Indiana teen who stabbed his father 45 times inside his convenience store and then went to school as if nothing happened ...

After 400 days in prison in Egypt, Peter Greste was released in 2015. He turned the ordeal into a memoir about press freedom, and now a movie, starring Richard Roxburgh.

The self-described "coolest dictator" has big secrets to hide, according to one journalist who spoke to Al Letson.

Moaz owes his survival to a remarkable misunderstanding. Six years into Syria's civil war, which started when President Bashar al-Assad cracked down on opposition protesters in 2011 during the Arab ...

NPR first reported on the case of Charles Givens, a disabled inmate at Virginia's Marion Correctional Treatment Center, in ...

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia stands as a magnificent ruin, a Gothic fortress that looms over the city like something straight out of a nightmare – but the kind of nightmare you can’t ...

A lawsuit that accuses Alabama prisons of illegally harvesting the organs of people who died while incarcerated will be allowed to proceed, a state judge ruled on Tuesday.

Ten Palestinians detained from Gaza by Israeli troops were freed and returned to the territory on Thursday, saying they had ...