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Western Region was expected to close Thursday following an executive order to phase out private prisons. That could mean 300 workers lose their jobs.

Scottish author Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, in 2020. His latest work is a suspense story wrapped around a novel of acute psychological observation.

In 2000, Vladimir Putin began targeting oligarchs who did not bend to his authority. The loyalists who remained — and new ones who subsequently got rich — became like ATM machines for the president.

President Biden defended controversial remarks in which he appeared to call for regime change in Russia. "I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it," he said.

The lack of a Trump endorsement hasn't stopped individual Republican candidates from selling themselves to voters as the most Trump-like in the primary.

Meet the opera's fight choreographer/intimacy director.

The Supreme Court in a brief order Friday sided with the Biden administration and said that, while the lawsuit plays out, the Navy may consider sailors’ vaccination status in making deployment, assignment and other operational decisions.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports from the boundary line of the Russian-controlled area in northern Georgia, which saw heavy fighting during the 2008 Russian invasion.

The "Saving Lives in Custody Act" was announced the same week two people died in custody in local jails.

The ruling came in the case of an elected trustee of the Houston Community College board who sued his fellow board members, charging that they violated his First Amendment right by censuring him