Julia Donaldson’s stories have been filling children’s heads with wonder for decades. “When I’ve got a pencil in my hand, it’s like an electric current,” she said. “My brain can send the words down my arm onto the page.” Donaldson has sold more than 75 million books worldwide, and more in the U.K. than any…
When Nidal Hasan is put to death by firing squad during a public livestream, he will become the first person to be publicly executed in the United States in nearly a century. The Defense Department announced Thursday the execution of Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted in the 2009 killings of 13 people at…
Washington — The Justice Department said on Friday it will no longer enforce certain provisions of a 1934 law that was passed by Congress to regulate the types of firearms often used by mobsters, after a federal judge declared large parts of the law were unconstitutional. The new guidelines released by the Bureau of Alcohol,…
Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi who was wrongfully convicted multiple times when he was tried six times for the same crime by the same prosecutor, has died. He was 56. Flowers’ family confirmed that he died Wednesday at his home in Winona, Mississippi, attorney Rob McDuff told CBS News on Thursday. No cause of…
Lawyers for a Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk are asking a judge to stay his execution by lethal injection set for Wednesday, citing the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week. This would be the first execution scheduled in the U.S. since Pike. Because the same drug used in…
An attorney for Disney’s ABC asked a federal judge on Tuesday to block the Federal Communications Commission from conducting an early review of the network’s broadcast licenses, saying the regulatory proceeding was initiated to retaliate against ABC over content that offended the Trump administration. During a roughly two-hour hearing in federal court in Washington, D.C.,…
Little Rock, Ark. — A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid. No more could able-bodied people lounge around while receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare, she said — they needed to work. But the decision to portray an unemployed moocher as…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with a complex dispute involving an effort by the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, to hold energy companies accountable for the effects of global climate change. Eight of the court’s nine justices heard nearly two hours of oral arguments in the case Suncor Energy v. Commissioners…
Nadi, Fiji — Extreme heat is increasingly linked to problems such as premature births or underweight babies, the U.N. climate chief warned on Monday as Fiji hosted talks ahead of a major summit. This week’s meetings in the city of Nadi and on the atoll nation of Tuvalu are aimed at drawing the world’s attention to…
Minnesota’s law banning AI “nudification” images has been put on hold after a federal appeals court sided with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted an injunction sought by xAI, pausing enforcement of the law while the company’s appeal moves forward. The court issued a brief, one-sentence…
