From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Dijon, France — France on Friday caught one of two detainees who used bed sheets to escape from prison a day earlier after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said. France has some of ...

How DIY tools, dozens of raincoats, and two Pop Mech issues led to one of history’s most daring disappearances.

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No one has ever escaped from the Colorado Supermax prison since it opened in 1994 ...

Officers realized the minimum security inmate was missing more than four hours after the escape on Thursday night, a release ...

YORK COUNTY — A career criminal scaled a barbed wire prison fence on a chilly Sunday afternoon in North Carolina, then caught a ride into South Carolina, according to the North Carolina Department of ...