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Donna Casasanta poses in front of a painting showing her late son, Harold Dean Clouse Jr., with Clouse's wife, Tina Gail Linn, and their daughter, Holly Marie Clouse, at Casasanta's Edgewater, Fla., home on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022.

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A baby who went missing after her parents' death over 40 years ago is found alive

12:41pm June 10, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

Two bodies were discovered in the woods in Houston in 1981. They were later identified as a couple. But their baby, who is now 42, was not found with them.

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards testifies during a hearing by the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Thursday in Washington.

A Capitol Police officer injured on Jan. 6 recalls the chaos and carnage

11:28pm June 09, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

"It was carnage, it was chaos. I can't even describe what I saw," says U.S. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards.

Liz Cheney, vice chair of the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, delivers opening remarks during a hearing on Thursday in Washington.

Liz Cheney offers a stark message to the GOP members who continue to support Trump

10:28pm June 09, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

"Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain," Cheney says.

Clouds roll over the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington on Thursday.

Here's how to watch the Jan. 6 committee hearings

7:47pm June 09, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

The hearing on Thursday will be livestreamed on YouTube and on most TV news channels.

Donald Trump, left, his son Donald Trump Jr., center, and his daughter Ivanka Trump speak during the unveiling of the design for the Trump International Hotel in Washington, on Sept. 10, 2013.

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Trump is set to undergo questioning in July in N.Y. civil probe

7:59pm June 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

Donald Trump, his namesake son and his daughter Ivanka have agreed to answer questions under oath next month in the New York attorney general's civil investigation into his business practices.

A guard tower and prison yard at the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., in 2009. Five men have been killed at Thomson since 2019, making the facility one of the deadliest federal prisons in the country.

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Lawmakers call for probe into deadly federal prison

1:48pm June 02, 2022

Following a Marshall Project/NPR report detailing violence and abuse at the newest federal penitentiary, three members of Congress asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate

A police officer arranges bouquets of flowers in rows at a side entrance to Dunblane Primary School following a school shooting that left 16 students and one teacher dead.

In Britain, it took just one school shooting to pass major gun control

5:09am June 01, 2022

After the Dunblane massacre in Scotland left 16 students dead, parents organized to make sure it could never happen again. What can the U.S learn from them as we struggle to combat gun violence?

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The federal Bureau of Prisons announced in 2018 that it was moving a special unit that had been plagued with violence to a new federal prison complex in Illinois. Some hoped it would be a fresh start and a chance to improve conditions. But things only got

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Five things to know about one of the deadliest federal prisons

6:28pm May 31, 2022

by Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at a prison in Illinois. NPR and The Marshall Project uncovered violence, abuse and deaths there. Here are five takeaways.

A drawing of Bobby Everson done by his cousin.

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How the newest federal prison became one of the deadliest

10:37am May 31, 2022

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at an Illinois penitentiary. NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths there.

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The newest federal prison has become one of the deadliest

7:23am May 31, 2022

by Joseph Shapiro

NPR's Investigative Unit teamed up with The Marshall Project to look at a penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., that is one of the country's most violent and dangerous federal prisons.

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