A Death Chamber That Didn't Work, and a Midterm Map That Won't Sit Still
Christa Pike left Tennessee's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in an ambulance, not a hearse. The 50-year-old, convicted of the 1995 torture-murder of…
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Christa Pike left Tennessee's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in an ambulance, not a hearse. The 50-year-old, convicted of the 1995 torture-murder of…
Read the edition →Tennessee spent Wednesday evening trying to carry out a death sentence and ended the night with an ambulance. Officials administered two doses of pentobarbital to…
Read the edition →Tennessee spent Wednesday in a macabre two-step. About an hour before Christa Gail Pike was due to become the first woman executed in the state in at least 200…
Read the edition →Hurricane Polo came ashore early Tuesday as a Category 2 storm just south of Las Barrancas in Baja California Sur, with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph, then…
Read the edition →Florida spent the last week of September arguing with mosquitoes, which is never a fair fight. Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties have declared local…
Read the edition →A nor’easter spent the weekend reminding the Northeast that autumn can still throw a tantrum. New York and New Jersey declared emergencies as the National Weather…
Read the edition →A September nor’easter is the sort of storm that shows up in summer clothes and then floods the boardwalk anyway. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Gov.…
Read the edition →Hawaii is staring at a Category 2 hurricane whose center, somewhat inconveniently, is supposed to stay “well south” of the islands while still dumping the kind of…
Read the edition →A U.S. citizen walking to a pharmacy in Evanston, Illinois, ended Sunday bloodied on the pavement after ICE agents mistook him for a fugitive. Local police say he…
Read the edition →California is treating this winter as a logistics problem, not a forecast. Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a statewide emergency to stage sandbags and pumps, pre-…
Read the edition →A Venezuelan DoorDash driver is now the face of a very American argument about who gets to use force on a city street. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was shot by…
Read the edition →An ICE officer shot a Venezuelan delivery driver in north Austin on Sunday, and by Monday the argument was already about who gets to look at the evidence. Officials…
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