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A federal appeals court overturned two stays of execution for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin early Wednesday, but his legal team said it would apply to the U.S. Supreme Court for another stay.The 8th U.S.
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC NewsVoters in New Mexico's largest city rejected a ban on late-term abortions Tuesday in a municipal election that was being closely watched as a possible new front in the national abortion fight.
Attorney General Robert Kennedy was not a believer in the lone gunman theory.Like many Americans, he could not accept that a man as ordinary as Lee Harvey Oswald could have acted alone in assassinating the president of the United States, his brother John F. Kennedy.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The fire started in the apartment building’s utility shaft. The space was narrow, wood-framed and as tall as a chimney. Water pipes and electric lines snaked through it, then out, into the three-story brick building. By the time the first fire investigator arrived, at 7:05 p.m.
Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC NewsVoters in New Mexico's largest city rejected a ban on late-term abortions Tuesday in a municipal election that was being closely watched as a possible new front in the national abortion fight.
Former President George W. Bush said history will judge the decisions he made in the White House — yet it could take a while, maybe a couple of hundred years.But Bush, who appeared on NBC’s “Tonight Show” Tuesday, said he doesn’t worry too much about it.
A campus security officer shot and killed a male college student at an off-campus women's dormitory Tuesday in Lynchburg, Va., after the student attacked him with a hammer, authorities said.
A United Methodist minister from southeastern Pennsylvania who was convicted under church law of officiating at his son's same-sex wedding ceremony was suspended for 30 days Tuesday and told he will lose his credentials if he violates any of the church's rules in that time.
It was raining in Dallas on the morning of Nov. 22, 1963. But the skies cleared in time for John F. Kennedy’s motorcade to roll through the streets without a protective bubble top on the president’s car.
Commercial airline pilots rely too much on automation in the cockpit and are losing basic flying skills, warns a new Federal Aviation Administration report due out this week.
