Supreme Court will again consider limits on imposing death penalty
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would review two cases brought by African Americans on death row in Texas, the state that most often carries out what is an increasingly rare punishment in the United States. One challenge involves Texas’s use of what lawyers say is an outdated method of determining whether inmates’ intellectual disabilities are so great that they should not be executed. The other alleges that racial discrimination infected an inmate’s sentencing. Last term, Justices Stephen ..>> view original6-year-old girl shot on Northwest Side
A 6-year-old girl was shot in the back and critically injured in the Palmer Square neighborhood Monday night, authorities said.The child was shot about 8:10 p.m. in the 2100 block of North Bingham Street and taken to Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in critical condition, according to police. The girl was in front of a home when a vehicle drove up and someone in it began firing, hitting her, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman. Police were looking for a silver vehicle, a law ..>> view originalLast known surviving 9/11 search and rescue dog laid to rest
Firefighters and rescue workers lined the sidewalk as her body, draped in an American flag, was carried out. Tears streaked down some faces.Bretagne, believed to be the last surviving 9/11 Ground Zero search dogs, was euthanized Monday.The golden retriever was 16. Old age had slowed her down, and it was time to put her to sleep. So, the firefighters at the Cy-Fair Fire Department in Harris County, Texas, lined the path up to the Fairfield Animal Hospital, as her owner, Denise Corliss, walked her..>> view originalSorry, Donald Trump, the 'Mexican' judge was just following the law
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson) “He [Judge Gonzalo Curiel] is giving us very unfair rulings, rulings that people can’t even believe. This case should have ended years ago on summary judgment. The best lawyers — I have spoken to so many lawyers — they said, this is not a case. This is a case that should have ended.” –Donald Trump, interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” June 5, 2016 “I have had terrible rulings forever. I had a judge previous to him [Curiel], and it would have been a very quick cas..>> view originalHillary Clinton clinches Democratic presidential nomination
A strong showing in Puerto Rico's Democratic primary on Sunday and additional support from superdelegates put Clinton, 68, over the top to become the presumptive nominee. She has secured 1,812 pledged delegates and 572 superdelegates for a total of 2,384 delegates -- one more than needed for the nomination.Clinton's delegate count will grow Tuesday when six states, including delegate-rich California and New Jersey, hold contests. Speaking in Long Beach, California, on Monday, Clinton said she wa..>> view originalFive eye-opening figures from the US Education Department's latest civil rights data dump
Catherine Lhamon, who leads the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, speaking last month during the GLSEN Respect Awards in New York. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for GLSEN Respect Awards) The U.S. Education Department on Tuesday released a trove of data drawn from surveys of nearly every single one of the nation’s 95,000 public schools. This latest installment of the Civil Rights Data Collection, from the 2013-2014 school year, offers a sobering look at the wide dispa..>> view originalDeath penalty in 'Grim Sleeper' case is 'long time coming'
LOS ANGELES — When Bill Ware died in 2002, he still didn’t know who fatally shot his daughter just two days shy of her 24th birthday. Barbara Ware was among at least 10 women and a teenage girl killed over a 20-year period by one of the most prolific serial killers in Los Angeles history, the “Grim Sleeper.” On Monday, a jury recommended the death penalty for the man convicted of killing Ware and the others, 63-year-old Lonnie Franklin Jr. His formal sentencing is Aug. 10. Bill Ware was among a..>> view originalScience|Do Gorillas Even Belong in Zoos? Harambe's Death Spurs Debate
By the Red List reckoning, the planetwide total for all wild apes amounts to 350,000 individuals, down from premodern figures estimated in the millions.Nor does it help, said Dr. Walsh of Cambridge University, that the public’s concern for the environment is now focused almost exclusively on climate change: “I feel like shouting, ‘Hey, guys, you could end climate change tomorrow and we’d still be facing the greatest extinction crisis we’ve ever seen.’”A Meeting of RelativesThere’s a reason huma..>> view originalBandaged shark bite victim is all smiles in hospital photo
A woman attacked by a shark in Southern California appeared smiling in her hospital bed in a newly released photograph, while a new set of shark sightings forced closures of Orange County beaches near the site of her scary shark encounter.The photo shows Maria Korcsmaros, 52, grinning in her hospital bed, wearing a gown with a cast covering nearly the entire length of her right arm. It was taken Thursday and provided by the Orange County Global Medical Center as she recovers from a large bite w..>> view original
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
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