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Authorities say a suspect in an Ohio killing has been rearrested after a jail mistakenly released him because of a typoJune 26, 2024, 10:25 AM ET• 1 min readCLEVELAND -- A suspect in an Ohio killing who was mistakenly released from jail…

The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna has denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media postJune 25, 2024, 11:52 AM ET• 2 min…

A Ukrainian police officer who was captured by Russian forces sobbed when finally freed last week after two years in captivity, where she had been allegedly “starved, beaten and abused.” Mariana Checheliuk, 24, an…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional…

Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison 22 times by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant who told investigators he targeted the ex-Minneapolis police officer because of his notoriety for…

Florida’s inmate population today is about 80,000. About 5% of them are confirmed veterans, though that share is likely far larger, research has shown. And while veterans compose only a small portion of those in Florida prisons, an…