A federal judge has selected Nicholas Deml, the former head of Vermont’s prison system, to take control of Rikers Island. Deml, who is also a former C.I.A. officer, has been named the new “Nunez ...

Search for survivors after New Year’s Day earthquake hits Japan. Neil and Georgie discuss the language in the news headlines. South Korea has passed a law banning the killing and sale of dogs for ...

Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same dysfunction that prompted a court’s intervention nearly a decade ago. “The reform ...