Hong Kong’s human rights lawyers are fleeing abroad amid an effort to cleanse the city of dissent. The pressure is part of a wider crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on lawyers across China, say activists, legal scholars and diplomats.

An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

My town, once celebrated for its laid-back weirdness, is now a turbocharged tech megalopolis being shaped by exiles from places like Silicon Valley.

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Thirty-three years ago a Chicago man was sentenced to death for a double murder on the city's south side. In 1999, another man confessed to the crimes. Why are both men now free?

At Missouri’s Agapé school, a devout Baptist boarding facility for boys, students say they were subjected to isolation, restraints, and treatment that bordered on torture

When the system failed to help them, these survivors banded together and took matters into their own hands

Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Tribal nations hold the rights to significant portions of the Colorado River. In the increasing drought, some are showing the way to sustainability.