NEW YORK—It’s a weekday afternoon and Anna Sorokin is on house arrest in a New York apartment building that has been condemned as imminently perilous to life. So she’s attempting to capture outside attention and relieving her boredom in the most quotidian way: starting a podcast. “So many people became famous for bad things and…

NEW YORK—It’s a weekday afternoon and Anna Sorokin is on house arrest in a New York apartment building that has been condemned as imminently perilous to life. So she’s attempting to capture outside attention and relieving her boredom in the most quotidian way: starting a podcast. For now, she wants to reimagine her public image…

The man who was once the senior officer of the B.C. legislature has been sentenced to three months of house arrest for breaching the public trust when he purchased a new suit and shirts as work attire. Craig James, 71, the former clerk of the B.C. legislative assembly, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment…

KYIV, Ukraine—The dissident Belarusian journalist and his Russian girlfriend who were arrested after being pulled off a flight that was diverted to Minsk have been moved from jail to house arrest—a move that the country’s exiled opposition leader said Friday was positive but still left them “hostages.” Raman Pratasevich—who ran a messaging app channel that…