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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Could Face Challenge in Federal Courts

Legal experts say the former Army officer convicted in a 2009 mass shooting could face a narrow, rushed path to appeal a public execution by firing squad.

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Nidal Malik Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army Base in 2009. It is unclear he will ask the courts to block the administration’s plans to execute him.

ICE Shooting in New York: What We Know

A 28-year-old man was shot by a federal immigration agent in New York City on Thursday. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said agents were “terrorizing our city.”

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Oscar Belgal, a Dominican immigrant, was shot on West 225th Street in Marble Hill, a neighborhood at the edge of Manhattan and the Bronx.

Palestinian Authority Says Elections Are to Be Postponed

The delay, outlined in a letter to France, comes as Fatah, the governing party, is suffering from deep internal rifts.

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Hussein al-Sheikh, deputy to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah, West Bank, in February. He was said to have sent the letters to European officials notifying them of the postponement.

Labour Holds Off Green Party in Election for Starmer’s Former London Seat

Sagal Abdi-Wali won a special election in central London that was seen as an early test for Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

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Labour’s candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali takes a selfie with supporters during her campaign launch in London last month.

Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

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Members of the military pay their respects on base at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, the morning after the mass shooting in 2009.

Spain’s Protesters See ‘Madness’ of Rising Rent and a ‘Martyr’ in Maricarmen

Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid on Thursday, a day after the death of María del Carmen Abascal, an 87-year-old whose eviction became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis.

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Protesters marched in memory of Maria del Carmen Abascal, who was widely known as Maricarmen, in Madrid on Thursday. Soaring rents have far outpaced wage growth in Spain, according to an analysis by the newspaper El País.

‘Maricarmen,’ Whose Eviction Enraged Spaniards, Dies at 87

María del Carmen Abascal, aged and ailing, became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis when she was evicted two weeks ago, prompting mass protests and triggering national elections.

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María del Carmen Abascal packs a bag with her belongings in Madrid last month.

‘Maricarmen,’ Whose Eviction Enraged Spaniards, Dies at 87

María del Carmen Abascal, aged and ailing, became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis when she was evicted two weeks ago, prompting mass protests and triggering national elections.

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María del Carmen Abascal packs a bag with her belongings in Madrid last month.

Leon Botstein Remains at Bard College Amid Scrutiny Over Epstein Ties

Leon Botstein is no longer president of Bard College, but he continues to teach and play a prominent role in the school’s signature music programs.

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Leon Botstein, the former president of Bard, at a concert in Bryant Park on Sept. 11.

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery?

Canada wants to leverage A.I. to improve its health care system. At a Toronto hospital, surgeons are training a machine to distinguish a safe incision from a catastrophic one.

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Dr. Madani, left, and Dr. Timothy Jackson, perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery on a patient at Toronto General Hospital, with the help of visual A.I. guides.

Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case

Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.

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Charges were dismissed against David Hearn, the former Olympian wrongly accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, and a judge has barred prosecutors from trying to revive the case against him.

Sally Yates to Lead Internal Investigation Into Cornell’s Handling of Sexual Assault Report

The university hired Sally Yates, a career federal prosecutor, to investigate how it handled a former student’s claim she was raped in 2024.

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Cornell University appointed Sally Yates, the former interim U.S. attorney general, to lead an independent investigation into how it handled rape allegations by a former student.

How Alaska’s Fish Became a Defining Issue for the Midterms

In the battle for an Alaska Senate seat and the governor’s mansion, the oil-dependent state’s declining fisheries loom large, but no one wants to look at the biggest culprit, climate change.

Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Author of Seminal Anticolonial Novel, Dies at 98

The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane in 2011. Mr. Kane subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the African people.

Cornell Case Carries Far-Reaching Implications for Hochul and James

The decision to intercede by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, has raised questions of impartiality as both face re-election.

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Governor Kathy Hochul after a meet-and-greet event in the Bronx on Saturday.

Mash-Up of Paramount and Warner Bros. Will Be Called Skydance

David Ellison, the tech scion who will run the combined company, borrowed the name of his original entertainment company that reflects his love of aviation. On Friday, the C.E.O.s of Warner Bros. were told they would not stay on once the companies merged.

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Skydance Media headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif.
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