Most countries today torture people. Torture is not an “aberration” of “a few bad actors.” It’s an habitual practice in many ...

Teen Torture, Inc., now streaming on Max, is the latest docuseries to explore the “troubled teen industry” (TTI), a patchwork of programs that purport to treat adolescents who for various reasons have ...

The opinions expressed are his own. One goal of terrorism directed against democracies is to provoke overreaction and repression. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, many Americans did in fact overreact, ...

THE SOLDIERS left muddy tracks throughout the house—physical traces of the violence they unleashed that day. The boot prints led all the way to the pool of blood around the woman’s body. Her dress had ...

The United States removed Gonzalo and 251 other Venezuelans to El Salvador in March and April 2025. When the plane landed, officers forced him and others to kneel with their heads down, he said. He ...

Christopher Palazzolo was convicted of torture and domestic violence against his wife, Elise Palazzolo. Palazzolo claimed his wife consented to the physical discipline, presenting a handwritten waiver ...

UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war is a crime against humanity, United Nations-backed human rights experts say. Erik Mose, chair of the independent ...

The father and stepmother of a Chester County girl who died after years of abuse and torture are now charged with her murder, investigators said. On Thursday, July 25, the Chester County District ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Israeli Russian doctoral researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov survived 2½ years of brutal captivity and torture by an ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia experienced "severe beatings" and "psychological torture" in a notorious high-security prison in El Salvador after he was deported by the Trump administration, according to a new ...

To borrow a tired refrain from the early COVID era, we’re now living through ~unprecedented times~. A former US president was convicted of 34 felonies. AI is ruining the internet. And a one-man ...