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On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience.“My shoulders brush the sides of the wall…

Millions of homeowners with federal flood insurance are seeing their rates spike, in some cases by thousands of dollars. FEMA says the new program better reflects the real risks of climate change.

As the results of the Iraq election are compiled, its clear that turnout was much lower than expected, with many Iraqis disillusioned about the prospects for political reform.

The justice minister announced that inmates who committed nonviolent crimes before July 1 — two weeks before a failed coup — would be eligible for early release.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Diébédo Francis Kéré, the first African to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Kaing Guek Eav oversaw Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 prison, where thousands of people were executed and tortured during the Khmer Rouge's terrifying rule in the 1970s.

Hong Kong police had denied organizers permission to hold an annual rally commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre victims. But few thousands of people have gathered anyway in defiance of the ban.

Carol "Mommom" Cohn died at age 91 from COVID in 2020. Now, her family is honoring her memory by sharing the matriarch's beloved matzo ball soup recipe with the world.

Ten years ago, a judge in Columbus developed a special docket that would direct women forced into sex work toward rehabilitation instead of the criminal justice system. Now it's a nationwide model.

State officials say they were blindsided this week by the legal action alleging brutal and unconstitutional conditions in the state's prisons.

I know how it feels to be whipped with a water hose, extension cord and tree branch. Like me, Joey Pagaduan uncovered his physical abuse. We both found solace in the arts.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners Sunday in a deal negotiated by the countries' presidents. It is a tentative step toward resolving the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.