Carey Dale Grayson final words before Alabama execution

Carey Dale Grayson final words before Alabama execution

Alabama carried out the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas Thursday evening. The state executed Carey Dale Grayson, 50, at 6 p.m. CST. / 7 p.m. EST. Authorities condemned him to death for the 1994 killing of 37-year-old Vickie Deblieux. After the prison warden read the death warrant, the warden pointed the microphone at Grayson…

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Trump won’t care that RFK Jr. compared him to Hitler, ex-aide says

Trump won’t care that RFK Jr. compared him to Hitler, ex-aide says

President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to “care” about freshly-unearthed recordings of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. comparing him to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, according to former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin. CNN reported on Thursday that Kennedy, who the president-elect nominated as the next Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary last week,…

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The 4 Republican senators Matt Gaetz believed would tank his AG nomination

The 4 Republican senators Matt Gaetz believed would tank his AG nomination

Former Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew himself from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney general over concerns that four GOP senators would block his confirmation, according to The New York Times. Trump nominated Gaetz to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ) on November 13. Gaetz promptly resigned from Congress soon after, effectively blocking the release…

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Why Is It OK for Everyone but Israelis to Defend Themselves? | Opinion

Why Is It OK for Everyone but Israelis to Defend Themselves? | Opinion

The International Criminal Court says its decision to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is a response to the pair’s “crimes against humanity.” A warrant was also issued for a likely-dead Hamas commander. U.S. senators like Lindsey Graham have dismissed the ICC’s move as a “dangerous…

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Mexico’s president on Trump deportation plans: Immigrants are not ‘criminals’

Mexico’s president on Trump deportation plans: Immigrants are not ‘criminals’

Mexico City —  Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said immigrants shouldn’t be viewed as “criminals,” but declared that Mexico has a plan for an influx of returnees should President-elect Donald Trump proceed with threatened mass deportations of immigrants, many of them Mexican nationals. “We don’t agree that migrants be treated as criminals,” Sheinbaum told reporters Thursday at…

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