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A woman poses for a picture among the thousands of cherry trees, now reaching full bloom, at the Tidal Basin, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
The U.S. Justice Department says the embattled Albuquerque Police Department engaged in "patterns of excessive force" and believes the force violated the U.S. Constitution.
Watch the full news conference where school stabbing victim Brett Hurt and his mom, Amanda Leonard, discuss rampage.
A 16-year-old student went on a stabbing spree Wednesday morning at a high school in Murrysville, Pa. Here's how it all unfolded.
A 16-year-old student went on a stabbing spree Wednesday morning at a high school in Murrysville, Pa. Here's how it all unfolded.
One of the most severely wounded teens from the stabbing rampage at a Pennsylvania high school — who was nearly knifed in the heart — underwent another surgery early Thursday, his family said.
The myth put forth by private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group that private prisons are cheaper than public prisons is shattered by a new report from In the Public Interest, thus undercutting the primary rationale for prison privatization efforts across the country. When pushing for contracts with the many states that use private prisons, these corporations claim they are the better option because they can run prisons more cheaply than the government can. But this report not only dispels that idea, it highlights some of the less-than-savory activities the corporations engage in because of the perverse incentives created by these contracts.
A 16-year-old student went on a stabbing spree Wednesday morning at a high school in Murrysville, Pa. Here's how it all unfolded.
On Wednesday morning, a high school sophomore armed with two knives went on a stabbing rampage, injuring 21 people at his western Pennsylvania high school. The boy, identified as Alex Hribal, faces two dozen felony counts in the incident.
Amanda Leonard, mother of school stabbing victim Brett Hurt says that when an incident like this happens the peers, family and school of the suspect need to ask themselves "What have we done to alienate this child?"
