[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

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Around the world, people are remembering those killed and abducted in Israel last Oct. 7. For Palestinians in Gaza, there is no reprieve from a war that has killed tens of thousands. After days of ...

The Northern Illinois Huskies gave No. 5 Notre Dame a MAC-attack on Saturday, taking down the first-ever Top 5 opponent in program and conference history ... in the Week 3 AP Top 25 marks the ...

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First Texas jumped Ohio State for No. 2 in the AP top 25 poll, and now the Longhorns have taken the No. 1 spot in the college football rankings from Georgia. It's the first time that Texas has ...

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After the first shake-up of the college football season, the Southeastern Conference grabbed six of the top seven spots in the AP Top 25 — a first in the 88-year history of the rankings — and Notre ...

An old video of Howard Stern in blackface has resurfaced, generating controversy as Vice President Kamala Harris is set for an interview with him. This is not the first time that the video has ...

A nation synonymous with distance running was given a multimillion-dollar choice: Get serious about antidoping efforts, or get banned from world sports. With money from an oil boom, Norway ...