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The Supreme Court has ordered Oklahoma to postpone lethal injections executions using a controversial sedative until the court rules in a challenge involving the drug. The court’s order Wednesday came…
Now you can feel good (better?) about eating meatballs at a furniture store. IKEA will soon offer vegan meatballs at its food court. – H/t Peta
Lunch-counter protests had become the cause célèbre the year before, in 1960, just two hours up the road in Greensboro, North Carolina. African-Americans, many of them students, sought to break…
PARIS — The often-prosecuted French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala is to stand trial in criminal court on Wednesday over a comment he made lamenting that a prominent Jewish journalist did…
BANGKOK, Jan 28 (Reuters) – A Thai court on Wednesday handed a two-year jail term to a leader of the “red shirt” opposition movement for defaming a former prime minister,…
WASHINGTON — Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, called Tuesday for his state’s governor to oppose the “tyranny” of federal courts that have repeatedly ruled in…
Texas’ top criminal court called off Wednesday’s scheduled execution of a death-row inmate linked to five killings in Houston, though attorneys said the court didn’t immediately explain its decision. The…
His lawyer said every doctor who’s ever examined him has determined Warren Hill is intellectually disabled, but tonight, unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the Georgia death row inmate will be…
However, the Johnsons’ attorney, Chevene King, said that only CNN affiliate WCTV-TV had its reporter booted from the courtroom. WCTV had no reporting to that effect on its website, nor…
An appeals court upheld convictions Monday in the murders of auto racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife. A three-judge panel on the 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously rejected…
CAIRO — A court on Monday handed down what officials said was Egypt’s first criminal conviction for the practice of female genital mutilation, sentencing a doctor to more than two…
Three Russian citizens were charged Monday in connection with a Cold War-style Russian spy ring that spoke in code, passed messages concealed in bags and magazines, and tried to recruit…
WASHINGTON — Four Senate Democrats are working with Republicans to help the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other GOP-affiliated lobbying groups undermine financial and environmental regulations. A new bill would…
A Washington state woman accused of stabbing her three small children may have been overwhelmed by the demands of caring for a 2-year-old toddler and 6-month-old twins while her soldier…
ISTANBUL — To avoid being banned throughout Turkey, Facebook has blocked Turkish users’ access to a number of pages containing content that the authorities had deemed insulting to the Prophet…
Attorneys representing Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who is scheduled to die Thursday, plan to file a request to stay his execution in light of the recent news that…
Prosecutors asked a court to convict the captain of the Costa Concordia and sentence him to 26 years in prison Monday for the 2012 shipwreck off Tuscany that killed 32…
ANKARA (Reuters) – A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block a number of pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, threatening to stop access to the whole social networking…
Though ‘Isa was arrested in Edmonton in 2011, where he has been detained ever since, he was extradited to the United States on Friday. And on Saturday, in a federal…
And former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a strident social conservative, just seems to want to be asked fewer questions about it. READ: Supreme Court gay marriage decision could have 2016…
HAZEL PARK, Mich. — On a snowy night in 2011, April DeBoer, Jayne Rowse and their three children were driving in their minivan down a rural road when a truck,…
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we speak with Dr. Sarah Nouwen on what Palestinian membership means…
Wonder if this guy’s pride is currently deflated. Victor Thompson, whose head is thoroughly covered in New England Patriots tattoos, had an arrest warrant issued by a Florida judge after…
The Saturday Profile By JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM — SHE is a crusading lawyer who serially sues rogue nations, terror groups and international banks to show, as she put it, “there…
Veteran television actor Stephen Collins and his wife of nearly 30 years have finalized their divorce, an acrimonious breakup that revealed the former “7th Heaven” star had inappropriate contact with…
DENVER (AP) — A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who tried to go to Syria to help Islamic State militants has been sentenced to four years in prison. Shannon Conley learned…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide a case on the constitutionality of the new lethal injection drug combinations that some states are using for executions. The…
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review Oklahoma’s method of execution by taking up a case brought by three death row inmates. The…
In a much-trailed speech in Davos at a reception at the World Economic Forum the resilient royal “reiterated and reaffirmed” the categorical denials made by Buckingham Palace issued on his…
The most conservative lawmakers in the House Republican majority have gotten their way a lot in recent years. That may be starting to change. A group of more pragmatic lawmakers…