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The Texas House passed a bill for air conditioning in prisons by 2032, following a district judge's ruling that current ...

The bill would require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning at each of its facilities by the ...

State-run prisons would be required to have air conditioning by the end of 2032 under a bill advanced by the Texas House on ...

A Mexican national is indicted in the U.S. for supporting the CJNG cartel, now designated as a terrorist group.

The Wichita County District Attorney has filed a petition, asking the highest court in Texas to reinstate the capital murder ...

An Austin federal judge has declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly unconstitutional." The bill faces an uphill battle in the Senate.

The Justice Department may drop its criminal prosecution of Boeing for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max ...

The Houston Forensic Science Center disclosed the intermittent problems it and other labs were having at an April 11 meeting ...

The Department of Justice is considering dropping a criminal charge against Boeing related to two deadly MAX crashes in 2018 ...

One hundred fifteen children were rescued in the operation, which was executed over the course of five days, the DOJ said in ...