TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A law going into effect this week will shield some human trafficking victims from punishment for certain crimes. Senate Bill 11, authored by State Sen. Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound ...

In England and Wales, whole-life imprisonment is the harshest sanction available to the courts, emerging in the decades after the abolition of the death penalty. The whole-life order requires people ...

SAN JOSE — Jurors have convicted a South Bay man of raping a woman at his apartment three years ago, and he could face life in prison because his serial rape history in Norway can be counted against ...

Lawmakers from both parties raised alarms Sunday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have committed a war crime following a report that he ordered a follow-on attack to kill survivors of a boat ...

Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers. By Michael Gold Reporting from ...

Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny. By Charlie Savage Julian E. Barnes Eric Schmitt and John ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is seen here during an Oct. 23 White House roundtable on criminal cartels. (Evan Vucci/AP) A group of former military lawyers issued a memo Saturday condemning Defense ...

This wasn't simply an execution site but rather a display platform where bodies were hung after being executed elsewhere in the city. The structure consisted of eight stone pillars supporting a timber ...

Last week, the Washington Post reported that, in early September, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the military to kill everyone on board a boat in the Caribbean suspected of carrying drugs.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could face criminal liability for a strike on a boat in the Caribbean in September, legal experts have told TIME, as lawmakers announced a rare bipartisan investigation ...