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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday “the first step in the process of reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”

A Texas woman has been convicted for trafficking two undocumented immigrants.

Royheem Delshawn Deeds was arrested early Monday morning.

Another 7,668 people were under investigation but were not currently detained, a minister told the state-run Anadolu Agency.

Prosecutors in Baltimore dropped the remaining charges against officers in the death of Freddie Gray.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ordered an investigation Tuesday into the incident at a juvenile detention center in Darwin, the capital city of Northern Territory.

The training will bring its employees in line with police departments that have implemented bias prevention plans after a spate of shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers.

The U.N. human rights chief said “well-functioning migration governance systems” are needed to assess requests for international protections.

Those being granted commutations had more than repaid their debt to society and earned the early release, the White House said.

Two of the eight justices, liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said they would have accepted the case.

The prime minister of the multiethnic country has shown support for an Islamic penal code that includes amputations and stoning.

A Florida jury acquitted Casey Anthony of her daughter’s murder in 2011, but she was convicted on four counts of lying to authorities, providing fuel for critics.

State prosecutors said they have indicted Plains All American Pipeline and an employee in connection with 2015's Santa Barbara spill.

American officials have warned that the Islamic State group has cells operating in Germany, Britain and Italy.

College is typically much cheaper for state residents than nonresidents; at the University of Georgia, the annual difference is about $19,000.

A manhunt for a suspect or suspects in the execution-style killings of eight family members in south-central Ohio entered its second full day on Sunday (April 24), with authorities providing no fresh information about the murders or the investigation.

A bill would formally ask the federal government for permission to offer insurance through the state’s healthcare exchange.

A deadly fire at a southern Indian temple Sunday claimed lives of at least 116 people, after an illegal fireworks display went awry during a religious festival.

Two immigrants who have been stuck in jail, unable to pay their bonds, are suing the U.S. government.

Last year, 1,634 people were executed across the world — the highest number recorded by the human rights group in 27 years.

The decision saw backlash from some organizations, such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates for stricter enforcement of immigration laws.