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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas court’s pause of the execution of Robert Roberson just days before he was set to die is likely to raise new arguments and scrutiny over cases that rely on the medical science and evidence in a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Roberson would have been the first person in the nation executed in a …

The Outrage Machine has been on overdrive lately, as it relates to the NFL’s decision to tap Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl LX halftime show. The political sweet potato has become grist for the grievance mill. Last week, the appointment of the Puerto Rican-born singer (which makes him a U.S. citizen) sparked chatter about having ICE agents at the …

Washington — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to halt a nearly $1.5 billion judgment for making false claims that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. Jones, the host of the show InfoWars, is asking the high court to freeze enforcement of the record-breaking sum that he was ordered to pay …

Texas High Court Halts Execution in Shaken Baby Case  The New York Times Texas court halts execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, who claims innocence in shaken baby death  CNN Texas court blocks execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson  The Texas Tribune Death row prisoner Robert Roberson’s lawyers claim new judicial misconduct evidence  NBC News Texas lawmakers visit Robert Roberson on death …

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says that the agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others can have a little more time, but not as much time as it wanted. What will happen to the case has been uncertain since Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified …

At 6pm next Thursday, barring a last-minute reprieve, Robert Roberson will become the first person in America to be executed under the theory of “shaken baby syndrome”, a medical diagnosis from the 1970s that is so disputed it is now widely denounced as junk science. Roberson, 58, will enter the death chamber at the Huntsville unit in Texas, where he …

Four people were found dead Wednesday at a San Francisco home in a case police described as “suspicious.” Police responded the 900 block of Monterey Boulevard in the Ingleside neighborhood for a well-being check around 1:23 p.m. and found four unresponsive people inside, a police spokesperson said. All four were declared dead at the scene. Authorities did not identify them. …

Just days after Fox Sports NFL analyst Mark Sanchez was arrested for allegedly attacking a 69-year-old grease truck driver, an incident for which he now faces multiple criminal charges, the victim filed a civil lawsuit against both Sanchez and his employer, Fox Corporation. Sanchez was in Indianapolis, where the incident took place, on business for Fox. He was scheduled to …

SALT LAKE CITY —The number of Utahns infected with measles has reached 53 cases, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services reported on Wednesday. Southwest Utah Health District leads the state in measles infections with 39 cases, including eight new cases identified in the district. The Utah County Health District has the second-highest number of residents who have contracted …

Reuters  —  A Los Angeles jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, finding the company liable in the latest trial alleging its talc products cause cancer. The family of Mae Moore, a California resident who died at age 88 in 2021, sued the company the same year, claiming …