On a cloudy day in late March, Isaiah Taylor, the 27-year-old founder and chief executive of Valar Atomics, a Hawthorne, Calif.–based nuclear energy startup, led me into a large black tent at the Utah ...

Utica, N.Y. — A former New York state corrections officer has reached a plea deal with prosecutors weeks before he was set to ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Stanley Richards as the new commissioner of the city’s Department of Correction on Saturday. Richards will become the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city ...

The American criminal justice system is notoriously plagued with racial and gender bias, crippling caseloads and asymmetrical ...

Amtrak is suing the MTA over the agency's refusal to allow Amtrak to move and test new Acela service trains on its Metro-North tracks.

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 ...

Kay Parsons was a devoted mother whose life would end in shocking violence. Watch the all-new "20/20" true crime event, ...

The controversial event and the NYPD’s response to resulting protests present a test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

For the first time in more than a decade, a leading pediatricians group has put out new guidance about recess, saying it’s ...

A federal judge has selected Nicholas Deml, the former head of Vermont’s prison system, to take control of Rikers Island. Deml, who is also a former C.I.A. officer, has been named the new “Nunez ...

Jake Rosmarin said he’s “trying not to think about” whether he’s been infected with hantavirus as he hunkers down for six ...

Katherine Legge will attempt to add running “The Double” to her racing resume. The 45-year-old Legge is going to try to ...