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Officials revealed that an alleged human smuggling operation involving over a dozen individuals has been uncovered inside a Texas home. Authorities with the Texas Department of Public Safety and ...

On Jan. 9, 1800, a strange boy wandered out of the woods and into the small village of Saint-Sernin in the South of France. Clad only in the torn remnants of a shirt, he appeared wholly untutored, ...