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A huge crowd gathers to witness the public hanging of Rainey Bethea in 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky. Public outrage over the spectacle made Bethea's death the last high-profile public execution in the United States. The Pentagon wants to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter.
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The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that
Rachel Treisman
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.
A detainee boards a deportation flight on GlobalX Air in Minnesota in December 2025.
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U.S. working to reverse an Egyptian man's third-country deportation to Africa
Nate Perez
A woman wearing a face mask walks past the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, founded in the 1930s to monitor strains of dangerous pathogens.
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Did Russia play by the rules in reporting lab worker's death?
Gabrielle Emanuel
Sebastian Stan plays a man accused of abusing his own children in Fjord.
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Five children are taken from their parents in 'Fjord,' which won top prize at Cannes
Justin Chang
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The league’s first event features a San Antonio athlete as the No. 1 seed.
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