Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 12, 1962, reporting the escape of three prisoners from Alcatraz prison in California on ...

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There was a time, not long ago, when Republicans and Democrats actually got along. They considered members of the other party adversaries, not enemies and, after sparring during the day over policy ...

U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz on Thursday in preparation for announcing plans to reopen the prison. Critics, including San Francisco’s mayor and former ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Thursday as President Trump pushes to house inmates at the notorious San Francisco Bay prison more than six decades after ...

The White House on Friday requested $152 million to begin reopening Alcatraz as an operational prison. The funding proposal, included in the Trump administration's fiscal year 2027 budget request, ...

The original Alcatraz housed convicted federal prisoners, while the new facility detains individuals under immigration enforcement, often without legal representation. Critics argue that the new ...

Can President Trump make Alcatraz a prison again? It’s an intriguing idea. The president’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, sent to Congress on Friday, requested $152 million to restore the iconic ...