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Sep 19 2009
The gruesome botching of an execution in Ohio on Tuesday, when technicians tried but failed to find a vein in a Death Row inmate through which to administer the required mortal fluids, is casting a fresh spotlight on the flaws in America’s system...
Sep 18 2009
U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests. The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal...
Sep 16 2009
After a six-month investigation, the U.N.’s Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict has concluded there’s evidence that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants committed war crimes during Israel’s recent military operations in Gaza...
Sep 12 2009
Many of those children ended up in the United States, as well as Sweden, Italy and France, said the report’s author and lead investigator, Marco Tulio Alvarez. In some cases, the report said, parents were killed so the children could be taken and...
Sep 11 2009
He may have eluded justice and the long reach of the world’s most powerful military force; his followers may (and probably will) strike again at some point in the future, near or distant; but history’s verdict on Osama bin Laden has been in...
Sep 9 2009
If you were going to come up with a list of organizations whose failures had done the most damage to the American economy in recent years, you’d probably have to start with the Wall Street firms and regulatory agencies that brought us the financial...
Sep 1 2009
Monday marks the end of August, a month with both good and bad news out of Afghanistan — and the approach of a key turning point. Civilian casualties caused by Western attacks have fallen dramatically under a new edict from General Stanley McChrystal...
Aug 29 2009
Rush Limbaugh offered himself some kudos Wednesday for predicting in March that the health care bill wouldn’t be passed before Ted Kennedy’s death. “Before it’s all over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health...
Aug 29 2009
Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide, the Los Angeles coroner formally ruled yesterday, saying the pop star died from acute intoxication from the drug propofol and other conditions. The ruling confirms what has been the assumption of LA police...
Aug 26 2009
Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man. The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm’s US website.