An American Company Drilled for Oil in Kenya — and Left Behind Soaring Cancer Rates
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Goat meat goes down like big shards of glass when the symptoms...
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Israel approves sweeping death penalty legislation targeting terrorism, EU condemns move
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian terrorists convicted of deadly...
Jury convicts former NFL player Keith J Gray in $328 million Medicare fraud scheme involving kickbacks
Former UConn football standout and Texas laboratory owner Keith J. Gray was convicted Thursday for his role in a wide-ranging...
Pam Bondi Is Pushing Death Sentences for People Spared By Her Predecessor
When U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi declared that she would seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione — the first...
Former MLB player Yasiel Puig found guilty of obstruction, lying to federal investigators
Former Major League Baseball outfielder Yasiel Puig was found guilty by a jury in a federal gambling case, the U.S....
Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
Alabama Deputy Solicitor general Robert Overing approached the podium at the U.S. Supreme Court on a mission: to convince the...
Two teen Afghan asylum seekers learn fate for raping 15-year-old in local park
Two teenage asylum seekers from Afghanistan have been jailed after admitting to the rape of a 15-year-old girl in a...
Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus
As of December 1, officials across the U.S. have executed 44 people in 11 states, making 2025 one of the...
Teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing 15-year-old student weeks after giving birth: report
An Australian high school teacher has pleaded guilty in a New South Wales court to sexually abusing a teenage boy...
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Sandra never knew what happened to the child she had at 17. Growing up in a respected, church-going, middle-class family...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
A pardoned January 6 rioter has been charged with sex crimes against two children. Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in...
Chauncey Billups hires Trump’s former attorney for federal gambling probe investigation
Chauncey Billups has hired renowned attorney Marc Mukasey, who has defended President Donald Trump in the past, to represent him...
This 16-Year-Old American Is Among Hundreds of Palestinian Children Jailed in Israel
On the morning of October 13, Zaher Ibrahim desperately tried to find his son among the dozens of newly freed...
Episode Two: A Death in the Dark
In January 2008, Ryan Frederick, a 28-year-old who worked the night shift at a Coca-Cola plant in Chesapeake, Virginia, found...
Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians
Since beginning its lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean last month, the Trump administration has faced a difficult question:...
