A mother pleads for Britain’s help in freeing son from Egyptian prison, one day of hunger at a time
Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day ...
Baseball star Ohtani’s ex-interpreter to appear in court for sentencing in betting case
The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced Thursday for bank and tax fraud ...
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Israel releases 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of ceasefire agreement
Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and ...
Residents and pets saved in house fire
The Terre Haute Fire Department (THFD) responded to a residential structure fire, Saturday, at 1002 S. 9th Street, according to THFD Public Information Officer, Captain Nick Arnold. Arnold said as ...
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Former death row prisoners may be heading to ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’
U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row prisoners — currently held in Terre Haute — to a higher-security prison in Colorado. Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatra ...
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Proposal to Rename Jan 6 Made by Released Prisoners
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, the founder of the Oath Keepers militia group, was given 18 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges. The DOJ proved that he was a crucial ...
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Trump defends Jan. 6 pardons after first prisoners are released
President Trump defended his decision to pardon most of the Jan. 6 rioters after the release of the first prisoners got underway. The Trump administration also ordered all federal employees hired ...
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Trump targets former federal death row prisoners granted clemency by Biden
All federal death sentences are carried out at a high-security prison in Terre Haute, which houses the nation’s sole federal execution chamber. During the final months of the first Trump ...
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What Will Trump’s Executive Order on Private Prisons Really Do?
On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...
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Contrasting Reality: Treatment of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners
The care shown to Israeli prisoners is the polar opposite of the treatment Palestinian prisoners received in Israeli custody. Among them, detained Palestinian doctors tortured to death not for ...
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AG prosecuting 117 cases against inmates at state penitentiary
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The state prison system in South Dakota is seeing its share of violence. There are currently more than a hundred court cases involving prison inmates in the hands of ...