Words are not just a way of communicating they also carry history within them. Some words are born out of historical events and carry forward their dark legacy and help us express the chaos and ...

Jon Bassoff has just finished teaching his last English class of the day at Longmont High School. Behind him and over his ...

Bedlam, pronounced as bed-luhm, refers to a scene of chaos and confusion. The word has sinister origins as it comes from the name of a 14th century mental asylum in London which was notorious for ...

Bedlam has long been a byword for chaos. Now a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection will open the doors to the historic asylum from which it derives. Through the lens of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, ...

"She fled a partner who threatened to kill her and held her captive." A federal judge temporarily blocked the deportation of eight asylum-seekers on Thursday, but the move was too late for one ...

Less than a month into office, the White House has effectively shut the border to asylum-seekers—including by cancelling CBPOne appointments for migrants who were supposed to present themselves ...

Who is an ‘asylum-seeker’? An asylum-seeker is someone who is seeking international protection. Their request for refugee status, or complementary protection status, has yet to be processed, or they ...

However, the Justice Department indicated Thursday that one of the prospective asylum seekers, identified only as N.S. in public court filings, may already be en route back to Ecuador, where she ...