The signing will make Shelby County the first government in the South to implement the Mandela Rules standard.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is signing an executive order to limit solitary confinement at prisons. Harris will sign the bill Wednesday morning to adopt the United Nations Minimum Standards for the ...

Attorneys within the case and outside the case all say this is rare and unique. They said it’s rare for a judge to preside ...

John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at the forces that led to the trial and how expertise was the big loser.

The white crosses are staked in the ground on an otherwise barren hillside on the edge of a farm, each one standing as a ...

The federal judge presiding over the case against five former Memphis officers convicted in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols ...

The massive military parade that President Donald Trump has long wanted is set to step off from the Lincoln Memorial on ...

Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iranian nuclear sites killed 78 people and wounded more that 320 on Friday, said Iran’s ...

The federal sentencing for the five former Memphis police officers convicted of federal crimes in the Tyre Nichols case, set ...

U.S. District Judge Mark S. Norris issued a one-sentence order saying he was recusing himself, just days before he was ...

Depending on the altitude, fuel, and engine efficiency pre jet planes sometimes did leave contrails. This is based on first ...