Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized at least 148 female inmates between 2006 and 2010 with required state approval. There are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s.
Turkey's prime minster issued a "final warning" to protesters on Thursday, demanding that they end their occupation of a park next to Istanbul's landmark Taksim Square. Prime Minister Erdogan also rejected a condemnation by the European Parliament over the his government's reportedly excessive us of force by riot police against demonstrators.
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of abducting three women and torturing them during a decade of captivity, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 329 criminal counts, including kidnapping and rape.
Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother of 7 who was held in a Mexican Jail on a marijuana charge, was freed Thursday evening. After the court reviewed her case, including key security footage the showed Yanira and her husband Gary boarding the bus carrying only blankets, bottles of water and her purse, the authorities realized that the charges against her were false, and dismissed her case.
