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A white supremacist serial killer responsible for as many as 20 murders is set to die in Missouri just past midnight Tuesday, the first execution in the state in nearly three years. Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m.
We need a budget that helps, not hurts, working people, protects Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from benefit cuts, invests in our infrastructure and creates jobs by raising revenue from Wall Street and the wealthiest 1%. Repealing tax subsidies for sending jobs overseas, for example, would generate $583 billion over 10 years.Take the pledge to call your elected representatives on Dec. 12 and demand a budget deal for working families.
By Eileen Sullivan, The Associated PressThe National Security Agency reported its own violations of surveillance rules to a U.S.
A deadly storm system which ripped through the Midwest on Sunday brought with it the two most powerful tornadoes that far north in November for 100 years, meteorologists said Tuesday.One of the two EF4 tornadoes recorded on Sunday devastated large parts of Washington, Ill.
DENVER -- Fatal levels of carbon monoxide following an explosion killed two workers in a gold and silver mine in Colorado over the weekend, federal safety officials said on Monday.
In 1961, the U.S. attacked newly socialist Cuba in the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion.In 1962, Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev allied his country with Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and constructed missiles on Cuban soil pointing at America — threatening to fire until the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The revolver carried by Old West lawman James "Wild Bill" Hickok on the day he was shot down at a Deadwood saloon failed to sell at an auction in San Francisco on Monday, with bidders failing to meet the steep reserve set by the gun's owners.
Brian Harris was relaxing outside his Northeast D.C. home Sunday when his wallet stopped a stray bullet from seriously injuring him.Harris, a resident of the 300 block of Adams Street NE in Edgewood, was outside his home around 8:30 p.m. drinking a cup of coffee after dinner.
A husband and wife and their infant twin sons, a week away from celebrating their first birthdays, were found dead at their home on Monday after police were asked to check on them.Authorities released few details about the deaths, but a relative said the couple had experienced marital problems.
