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Syria’s military says Israel carried out a strike in the coastal city of Latakia, wounding two civilians and damaging a military post

Alabama is preparing to execute a man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a 2016 drug-fueled rampage

Two U.S. states plan to execute convicted killers Thursday

A man who admitted to killing five people in 2016 has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama

A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is facing a lethal injection

A judge has granted a request from Texas lawmakers to delay the execution of a man scheduled to be the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

A Texas appeals court has reversed a judge's order to delay Thursday’s scheduled execution of a man who would become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

The Texas Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

Kamala Harris is spending her week trying to shore up support in the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin

Voters in nine states are deciding next month whether to add the right to abortion to their constitutions