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The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.

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Trump is temporarily allowing this fuel to be used on highways, although it's typically just for off-road farm and construction vehicles. Could that lower the price of diesel?

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The New York Times reporter Greg Jaffe says Hegseth has disproportionately blocked promotions of Black and women senior officers, and he's also been purging the military of transgender people.

As checks from President Trump for health costs hit millions of mailboxes, a poll shows Americans don't trust Republicans on healthcare. Experts doubt it will move the needle and say it is likely illegal.

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New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: What role do these bacteria play in human health?

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The Lahore High Court is a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture and its main square is a pleasant spot shaded by banyan trees.

It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional Asian recipe to make their own. They call it a "labor of love."

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A possible Iranian threat led the U.S. to remove long-range bombers from a U.K. base. And, Israelis are learning that their prime minister may have been warned before the Oct. 7 attacks.

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A thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point. We explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize.

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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

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It's not just mortgages being at their highest level in almost three years — but the cost of loans for cars and higher education are among the borrowing costs affected, too.

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Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Northern Nevada has a reliably red congressional seat, represented by a Republican since it was drawn in the early 1980s. A complicated candidate and a potential blue wave this year could change that.

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The pop superstar is showing art from his personal collection for the first time. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is packed with fans.

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Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year.

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Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.

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On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.

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The federal Civil Rights Data Collection, for the first time in decades, tells us about the teacher workforce and reminds us racial disparities are still stark in American public schools.

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The Trump administration has been hostile to federal spending on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. But there's bipartisan support for a multiuse trail that would connect Ohio and West Virginia.

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The investigation continues into whether Iran is linked it an incident at a U.K. air base, thousands join student-led protest in France, former German spy chief to face charges including espionage.