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Both executions and death sentences have declined dramatically since their peak in the late 1990s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

The girl’s death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

Prabhu Ramamoorthy cried after the sentencing in Detroit on Thursday. His lawyers had called for leniency from the judge arguing, “He will suffer long after this sentence is done.”

After an injury forced Patricio Manuel to withdraw from the women’s Olympic boxing trials, the fighter faced a reckoning. He decided to start living publicly as a man — and rebuild his boxing career.

Four years after another test flight ended tragically, the company is celebrating a milestone: Its manned spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 51 miles.

The suspect had been the target of a massive manhunt since Tuesday’s deadly assault on a Christmas shopping market.

The president says he never directed his onetime personal attorney Michael Cohen to do anything wrong. Cohen pleaded guilty Wednesday to making illegal payments before the 2016 election.

Some boxes of U by Kotex Sleek Tampons, regular absorbency, have a “quality-related defect” that left pieces of the tampon inside the bodies of some consumers — in some cases causing infection.

U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Academy of Sciences call for international gene-editing standards. Critics blast statement as inadequate.

Springsteen has performed his one-man show over 230 times since its debut last year. But, just as the Boss bids adieu to Broadway, a new film documenting the show is set to premiere on Netflix.

The decision is a major victory for state employees, as well as for state Attorney General Andy Beshear as he runs to unseat Gov. Matt Bevin, who championed the controversial law.

The blaze destroyed voting machines and booths for 19 of Kinshasa’s 24 polling stations. But with 10 days to go, the Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to proceed with its presidential election.

The Russian gun rights activist had sought to establish back-channel ties between the Russian government and leading U.S. conservative groups, including the Trump campaign and the NRA.

Joseph Kabila is barred from seeking a third consecutive term as president of Congo, where elections are scheduled later this month. But he doesn’t rule out running again in the future.

Even with the backing of state-based beer giant Coors, small farmers just couldn’t compete with the Pacific Northwest. And with more people choosing wine and spirits, some craft brewers are closing.

Experts say there isn’t solid evidence that federal aid drives up college prices, except in one sector: for-profit colleges.

Courts should be added to the list of “sensitive locations” that ICE officials are to avoid, judges say, arguing the justice system depends on safe and equal access to the court system.

“We’ll never have any decent people run for office again,” said one lifelong Bladen County resident. The district might have to rerun the primary and general elections for Congress.

The president’s former personal lawyer is going to prison. A Russian woman is set to plead guilty to acting as a foreign agent. A former Trump national security adviser will soon learn his fate, too.

With government shelters across the country nearing capacity, officials are considering a range of options from releasing the children more quickly to building more tent cities.

Chinese authorities have detained another Canadian citizen this week, allegedly for harming national security. The detentions appear to be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a Huawei executive.

Nancy Pelosi is poised to once again be speaker of the House, after cutting a deal with several House Democrats who had previously opposed her. Pelosi will serve a maximum of four years in the post.

“I wanted to understand how such a distressing, degrading and high-risk set of events could have occurred in a 21st Century Australian prison,” the head of a prison watchdog said on Wednesday.

When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.

Javier Errázuriz had been accused of ignoring sexual abuse in Chile. George Pell has reportedly been found guilty of sexually assaulting children in Australia.

Lawmakers are expected to vote this week to overhaul how Congress handles accusations of sexual misconduct. The deal follows a nearly yearlong standoff over member liability and other issues.

Remembering Rosanelle Eaton, the North Carolina woman who in her 90s became the face of efforts to overturn laws that civil rights activists said discriminated against black voters.

The U.S. government says warming ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the “most unprecedented transition in history” in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.

A bipartisan resolution directs the administration to end military assistance to the Saudi-led conflict. It draws on the Vietnam-era War Powers Act, marking the first debate on this war authority.

Tribune Publishing secretly started to pay more than $2.5 million to a fired news executive to settle a lawsuit. It sought to keep a slur by controlling owner Michael Ferro from becoming public.