Tennessee Is About To Execute Its First Woman Since 1820
Condemned for a 1995 torture-killing committed when she was 18, Christa Gail Pike is set to die by lethal injection September 30 unless Governor Bill Lee intervenes
By HOLLIE McKAY
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Ms. McKay is a war and humanitarian-focused international correspondent and author of ‘Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield,’ ‘Afghanistan: The End of the US Footprint and Rise of the Taliban Rule,’ and ‘The Dictator’s Wife.’
Condemned for a 1995 torture-killing committed when she was 18, Christa Gail Pike is set to die by lethal injection September 30 unless Governor Bill Lee intervenes
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A deal negotiated by Rubio and Hegseth hands the American military a financial stake in 65 billion barrels of crude — while leaving a remnant of Chavista in power.
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Nine pharmaceutical companies signed onto the president’s ‘most-favored-nation’ pricing push last week, yet the contracts stay sealed.
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The federal government’s spending is threatening American economic and military strength.
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Experts warn that the reaction to the Lindsay Clancy case could push doctors toward defensive medicine and scare the most vulnerable new mothers into silence instead of care.
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Torture, judicial turnover, and overturned convictions have left Guantanamo unable to deliver 9/11 families a verdict, even as a June 2028 trial date is finally set.
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Six months after Major Alex Klinner died in a refueling jet crash over Iraq, his widow says the Air Force is reviewing why a semantic loophole locked his family out of the benefits other Gold Star families receive.
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The next mayor does not have long to solve a decades-long problem before the cameras turn their focus to a city that cannot house its most vulnerable.
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As Washington courts his jailers, the former cricket hero and prime minister is losing his sight in an Adiala Jail cell — and running out of time.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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Forty Catholic parishes in Port-au-Prince alone have gone dark as armed groups hunt down clergy and congregants who refuse to bow to criminal rule.
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Recent figures show the amount of on-location production is still declining even after California poured hundreds of millions into saving the industry.
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Salman Elmi surrendered his passport and posted bail in mid-August as Minnesota’s fraud scandal, already the largest in America, keeps widening.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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