Asylum seekers will be banned from using taxis for medical appointments from February, the government has announced. It comes ...

In name and function, Asylum Street carries little appeal. The short, lightly traveled road off Summer Street dead-ends at the foot of an Interstate 290 embankment. And the origin of the street is ...

This week in history, the Fulton State Hospital opened in 1850 as the State Lunatic Asylum.Established by Governor Marmaduke ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Post and Courier on Sunday published a story in the Life section about “Bull Street,” an upcoming movie that touches on South Carolina and its once famous state mental hospital.

NOGALES, Mexico — It’s a relatively quiet Saturday morning at the Kino Border Initiative migrant shelter. At the back of the main dining room, there’s a mural that resembles Leonardo DaVinci’s The ...

Insufficient staffing and funding for a key agency has led to the backlog of asylum cases to skyrocket in recent years to unprecedented levels, according to a new audit, with the Biden administration ...

The Trump administration is stripping protections of some asylum applicants who filed as far back as 2019. NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters in the mail ...

Approval rates for asylum applications in the US have dropped dramatically in the run-up to Donald Trump’s second administration — as the President-elect has vowed to crack down on the migrant crisis.

Yusuf Ali Sendil, a medical doctor who fled political persecution in Turkey, will lose his chance to be a resident at Rutgers University’s hospital in less than a month unless a U.S. immigration ...

PETERSBURG, Va. — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

Latest in a series on the names attached to Worcester schools, streets and parks. In name and function, Asylum Street carries little appeal. The short, lightly traveled road off Summer Street ...