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The Bureau of Prisons has started photocopying inmate letters at some federal correctional centers across the US in an effort to combat smuggling of synthetic narcotics like K-2

Associate Justice Elena Kagan says it behooves the US Supreme Court to realize that there's a danger of the public seeing it as just a political institution

The service will debut in one or two US cities in the coming weeks

US oil giant goes on trial Tuesday in New York, it denies the charges

Central Park has 23 statues honoring men who have contributed to history but none honoring real women

Officials say demolition of 2 precariously leaning cranes atop a partly collapsed New Orleans hotel deemed a success; plans on to retrieve 2 bodies still in the ruined building

The deal comes just hours before the opening arguments in a court in Cleveland