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A baby who was left alone for days in a Phoenix, Arizona, apartment was rescued by police officers last month after the infant’s mother had died, officials said Friday. Phoenix police said they received a call from a neighbor on the morning of May 14 to check on a woman …

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91. His former producer, Judy Doctoroff, confirmed his death to CBS News.  Moyers died in a New York City …

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme …

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme …

A 40-year-old Army pilot was killed, and a second pilot was injured, in a helicopter training accident Wednesday evening at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, the Army post said. The soldier killed was identified Friday by the 101st Airborne Division as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright. In a post …

Matthew Vogel was finishing up a six-month stint at the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, for a parole violation when he was allegedly beaten to death by a cellmate who was serving three life sentences for murder. Vogel’s cellmate is accused of bludgeoning him with a drainage cover …

A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports on Friday, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month as the multibillion-dollar industry shreds the last vestiges of the amateur model that defined …

A tropical storm is expected to form Tuesday night or Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, far off the southern coast of Mexico, forecasters say. Once confirmed, the storm would be named Alvin.  Satellite imagery shows showers and thunderstorms starting to organize several hundred miles south of Mexico, according to the National …

Attorney Lin Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, is relinquishing his law license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face possible disbarment. Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump’s continued false claims that he defeated Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Wood …

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged an alleged leader national leader and 22 members of the MS-13 gang with murder and other acts of violence.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced a 48-count superseding indictment against Edenilson Velasquez Larin, “allegedly a national leader of the MS-13 and …