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The U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.is home to a communications management unit, which have stirred up controversy for housing people convicted of international terrorism and others who have engaged in communications that officials want to monitor.

Inmates Try To Revive Lawsuit Over Secretive Prison Units

Prisoners argue their detention in special Communication Management Units left them stigmatized and hurt their relationships with family members.

Workers clear rubble at the site of a car bomb explosion near the Italian Consulate in downtown, Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday.

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack On Italian Consulate In Cairo

A group calling itself Islamic State in Egypt said it carried out the car-bomb attack that killed one person and caused serious damage to the diplomatic compound.

An undated composite photograph showing the delegates at the Panmunjom talks on Saturday. (Left to right) South Korean National Security Adviser Kim Kwan-jin, South Korean Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo, Hwang Pyong-so, the North Korean military's top political officer and Kim Yang-gon, the top North Korean official in charge of inter-Korean affairs.

Koreas Hold Talks Aimed At Preventing Larger Conflict

Hours before the deadline set by North Korean for Seoul to halt propaganda broadcasts across the border, the two sides said they would meet face-to-face at the border village of Panmunjom.

Baby Bump? U.S. Birth Rate Rises

Nearly 4 million babies were born last year. Preliminary data from the CDC show that the U.S. birth rate increased last year for the first time since 2007.

Pension Case May Not Be Done: Signals It Could Go To U.S. Supreme Court

Illinois may not be done with the 2013 law reducing state employees’ pensions after all. The Attorney General appears to be readying to appeal to the U.S.…

Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is believed to have been killed in a U.S., airstrike.

U.S. Targets Taliban Leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour In An Airstrike

The Pentagon says they're studying the results of the attack, which occurred along Afghanistan-Pakistan border, to determine the Mansour's fate.

People cross a temporary bridge on a parched area of the Ganges River in Allahabad, India, on Thursday.

Super Hot! India Records Its Highest Temperature Ever

Thermometers in the western city of Phalodi registered a sizzling 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday. One resident told the BBC that it was so hot, his cellphone stopped working.

Education Desk: K-12 Funding Task Force Hears From Winners Who Would Lose Under Proposed Plan

lllinois' Education Funding Task Force met yesterday to consider whether to change how the state finances education.The current system is based on…

Iran To Countries Capping Oil Output: Good For You! But Not For Us

Iran applauded the effort led by Saudi Arabia and Russia to freeze oil production at January levels. But it would not commit itself to participating in plans to cap oil output to drive up prices.

Astronaut Tim Peake of European Space Agency took this photograph on April 6, as the International Space Station flew over Madagascar.

100,000 Orbits Later, International Space Station Still Going Strong

"One-hundred-thousand orbits, the journey continues," NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams said in a video from space.

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