Supreme Court Blocks Texas From Executing Mentally Disabled Man
Justices criticized a state appeals court for using outdated medical standards when it determined that a murderer wasn’t intellectually disabled and could therefore be executed.
Justices criticized a state appeals court for using outdated medical standards when it determined that a murderer wasn’t intellectually disabled and could therefore be executed.
Gilroy, Calif., is known as the garlic capital of the world. Two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are affecting the town in starkly different ways.
Michigan resident Paul Whelan has been held in a Russian prison since he was arrested in December on suspicion of spying. His family says he was just attending a friend’s wedding in Moscow.
Independent brokers help employers choose health benefits for their staff but are paid by the health insurance industry, creating financial incentives to sell more without regard to cost.
As an exoneree, Mark Schand did not qualify for job training, tuition help or other re-entry services offered to people on parole. But he did fight for, and receive, monetary compensation.
For centuries, people have turned to jesters for relief from the miseries of life. As it turns out, some stand-up performers turn pain and rage into their own coping and catharsis.
The insects were created, using CRISPR, to carry a powerful “gene drive.” The mosquitoes could provide a potent weapon against malaria, but they raise fears about unpredictable environmental effects.
Shamima Begum, 19, left England in 2015. Now she is a married mother and living in a refugee camp. Begum says she wants to come home, but the U.K. government doesn’t want her back.
The president is in a Twitter war with Gov. Gavin Newsom over the project and the president’s emergency declaration to build a border wall.
A runway model who objected to the impression made by the drawstring says she was initially told to “keep it to yourself.”
Yang Fenglan, who has lived in Tanzania on and off for decades and operated a Chinese restaurant, was found guilty of working with two Tanzanian men to smuggle more than 800 pieces of ivory.
“We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them,” said Goodloe Sutton, publisher of the Democrat-Reporter, after admitting he wrote an incendiary editorial.
Li Li Leung, a former gymnastics competitor, will now head an organization in turmoil, as USA Gymnastics seeks to recover from its widespread sex abuse scandal.
The country had been a holdout from a trend already sweeping other parts of Europe and beyond. Now the right-wing Vox party shares power in Spain’s largest region.
“I’m very confident that we’re going to have criminal charges on one or more police officers” from a raid that left two suspects dead, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said.
It would be under the umbrella of the Air Force to try to simplify the process. This represents a shift; Trump had stated that he wanted a space force that is “separate but equal” from the Air Force.
“We don’t have a lot of experience with investigating presidents of the United States,” McCabe says. “There is not a standard S.O.P. on the shelf that you pull down to say, ‘Here’s how it’s done.’ “
The Oscar-nominated film has reignited interest in the life (and love interests) of a corpulent, gouty, queen who liked chocolate more than tea. So why are Queen Anne and tea-drinking so closely tied?
Whistleblowers told the Oversight committee that efforts by some national security officials to try to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to the Saudi government potentially violated the law.
Trump’s plan includes a focus on fighting HIV in the rural Midwest and South. But there are doubts in Oklahoma, where the state’s uninsured rate and stigmatization of HIV are high.
George Mendonsa claimed to be the sailor kissing a woman in Times Square — a photo that defined the jubilation of Victory over Japan Day. The two had never met.
The Vermont independent became an ideological leader in the Democratic Party after his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. He faces a far more crowded and liberal field this time.
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds the majority of Americans oppose the president’s national emergency declaration, don’t believe there is an emergency and believe Trump’s misusing his power.
The justice has been recovering at home since late December. She missed January’s oral-argument days but participated in those 11 cases based on written briefs and transcripts of the arguments.
The Democratic Party is largely unified around the value of immigrants and against President Trump’s policies, far from labor concerns and the party’s law and order agenda of the 1990’s.
Educators oppose charter schools and a new voucher system. The strike comes a year after the last walkout sparked similar strikes across the U.S.
Broecker was an early advocate for reducing fossil fuels to avoid the disruptive effects of climate change and brought the term “global warming” into the mainstream.
They say there’s rarely enough evidence to prosecute. “The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go,” Trump tweeted.
A coalition led by California has sued the Trump administration over its plan to divert billions of dollars to border wall construction.
The U.S. president urged military leaders to stop blocking food aid from entering the country, and said those who refuse to accept the opposition leader “will find no safe harbor … no way out.”
Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about Queen’s late frontman Freddie Mercury, is up for five awards. Two surviving band members will play at Sunday’s ceremony, joined by Adam Lambert singing lead.
“The age of inadequate self-regulation must come to an end,” says Damian Collins, chair of the committee behind the report, which is often scathing on Facebook’s practices and corporate conduct.
Honey bees deal with many stressors: chemicals, climate change and viruses. But this year, a tiny mite has wiped out colonies, causing worry over whether there are enough bees left to do their jobs.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CBS and NPR that officials had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, a procedure which takes power away from the president.
The seven politicians said that persisting anti-Semitism and leader Jeremy Corbyn’s “complicit” role in Brexit led to their resignations. They say the party “has changed beyond recognition.”
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