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FILE – In this July 21, 2010, photograph, employees leave the front gate of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 11:32 AM PT Saturday, January 4, 2020 Prisons across the state of Mississ…

A week of violence in Mississippi prisons has left five inmates dead and many others injured in what authorities are calling “major disturbances”. In a statement sent to TIME, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) confirmed that three inmates have…

SUNFLOWER COUNTY, Miss. (WMC) - Two inmates have now died at the Mississippi State Penitentiary within 24 hours following riots, according to our NBC-affiliate WTVA. A riot is reported to have started around 3 a.m. in Unit 29 of Parchman Prison Friday. WTVA …

THE FIRST wave of 750 US paratroopers has been deployed to Kuwait after Donald Trump warned Iran will "pay a very big price" for the US embassy attack. Some 4,000 troops in total are on alert ahead of possible snap deployment orders. On Wednesday at Fort Br…

Carving through California's Noyo River Canyon under the canopy of ancient redwood forests is a heritage railway that looks like it was plucked out of the 1800s. It's one of the many trains owned by Mike Hart, who might be the only man on Earth who owns both …

Just as fashion saw major shifts across all facets of business this past decade, so did footwear. Now a multi-hundred-billion dollar industry, footwear owes much of its meteoric rise to sneakers and its surrounding culture. Once a niche underground world livi…

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, whose government has been rocked by riots over inequality, ignited a fresh wave of anger after claiming that “many” videos on social media of police abuse of demonstrators were “fake news,” and unrest w…

One evening in 1992, my parents, younger sister and I sat on the fold-out futon on the living room floor, petting our cats and watching fires consume buildings in Los Angeles. The images that spilled from the screen are only vague memories now: a dark night, …

Image copyrightGetty Images January 2010. Barack Obama was one year into his US presidency, Instagram hadn't been invented and the word Brexit had never been uttered. A decade on, we look back at the most read stories on the BBC News website year by year. …

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