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A man put to death in the US state of Tennessee on Thursday for murdering a woman and her daughter chose in his final hours to be electrocuted rather than executed by lethal injection, prison officials said. Stephen West, who was convicted in the two killings more than 30 years ago, waited until Wednesday to choose his method of execution -- one day after Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Lee refused his request for clemency. "After thorough consideration of Stephen West's request for clemency and a review of the case, the State of Tennessee's sentence will stand, and I will not be intervening," he said in a statement.

POSTED AUGUST 16, 2019 10:44 AM

During the 2016 election the conservative LGBT organization declined to endorse him for president.

POSTED AUGUST 16, 2019 2:23 PM

An 8-month-old dugong nurtured by marine experts after it was found lost near a beach in southern Thailand has died of what biologists believe was a combination of shock and ingesting plastic waste, officials said Saturday. The female dugong — a large ocean mammal — was named "Marium" and became a hit in Thailand after images of biologists embracing and feeding her with milk and seagrass spread across social media. Veterinarians and volunteers had set out in canoes to feed Marium up to 15 times a day while also giving her health checks.

POSTED AUGUST 17, 2019 6:59 AM

DOJ argued that Title VII does not protect transgender people

POSTED AUGUST 17, 2019 5:12 PM

Diala Shamas of the Center for Constitutional Rights says Israel's decision to ban Tlaib is "troubling," and that the country is treating congresswomen "the same way they deal with all Palestinians."

POSTED AUGUST 16, 2019 5:23 PM

POSTED AUGUST 16, 2019 11:43 AM

While in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Jeffrey Epstein used his jail bed sheet to commit suicide.

POSTED AUGUST 17, 2019 12:47 PM

A 72-year-old man was seriously injured after attempting to break up a fight between his pet dog and a giant Goanna lizard.

POSTED AUGUST 16, 2019 10:45 AM

Police say a Gainesville, Florida, mom of two young boys told a friend she was going to kill herself and her sons by crashing her car with everyone inside.

POSTED AUGUST 17, 2019 5:25 PM

Mexican authorities arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of supporting militant Islamists in an example of Mexico's security cooperation with the United States even as the two neighbors grapple with sharp disagreements over trade and migration. The unidentified American man sought by Interpol was under investigation for supporting terrorist groups and will be deported to the United States later on Friday, the Mexico's attorney general's office said in a statement. The man was detained at a migrants office near Mexico's border with Guatemala in the town of Huehuetan with the help of officials from Mexico's National Migration Institute.

POSTED AUGUST 16, 2019 3:15 PM