Christa Pike’s failed execution in September has raised fresh questions about Tennessee’s lethal injection execution protocol, which is in its fourth iteration in the past two decades. Pike’s was the second botched execution by Tennessee this year. She had been sentenced to death for her role in the 1995 torture and murder of her 19-year-old…
Court documents are revealing new details about Dale Smith Jr., the man recently arrested in connection with the disappearance of his ex-fiancée Michelle Parker in 2011, including newly recovered text messages and a history of domestic violence and injuries that police never asked about during their initial investigation. Smith was taken into custody on a…
Only two weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, Pope Leo XIV has been given the medical green light to embark on an ambitious 12-day tour of South America next month. “Based on his current clinical status, as well as the instrumental and laboratory tests performed, there are no contraindications that would prevent him from…
Amman, Jordan — Jordanian security forces arrested three men Monday for an attack on a Greek Orthodox church that killed nine people and wounded more than two dozen. The Public Security Directorate said the three suspects were arrested following a dawn shootout and that all three were wounded. No members of the security forces were…
President Trump on Friday slashed tariffs on a handful of Canadian products that are used widely by Maine’s agricultural industry, a move cheered by Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who is facing a tough reelection battle in the New England state. The items that are no longer subject to 50% tariffs include corrugated boxes, crates, plastic…
Airbnb is updating its rules to shield visitors from onerous cleaning tasks it says could negatively impact their stay. The new policy, announced this week, prevents hosts from asking guests to strip beds, start a load of laundry and other household chores Airbnb says “require significant effort or time” and would typically be performed by…
Americans are facing a “food insecurity crisis” after shouldering an additional $22 billion in food costs due to rising inflation and billions of dollars in food-stamp cuts, according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. In an Oct. 21 letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, the Massachusetts Democrat said that the combination of rising food…
Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed clashed onstage Wednesday during the second, and final, debate in the increasingly bitter Michigan Senate race. El-Sayed repeatedly argued his opponent is and would be a “sock puppet” for President Trump in the Senate, while Rogers cast his opponent as untrustworthy and trying to run from past, further-left…
Washington — President Trump is getting bipartisan blowback over his surprise decision to waive new sanctions on Russia two days before they were to go into effect. Congress approved the bipartisan legislation — championed by the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who died before it was passed — and it was signed…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider the constitutionality of a nearly 160-year-old federal ban on distilling liquor at home. Arguments in the case, known as Department of Justice v. McNutt, will likely take place next year, with a decision coming by late June or early July. For more than a…
