Alabama on Thursday became the first state to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas. Kenneth Smith was put to death by nitrogen hypoxia at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., making his death the first in the U.S. to be carried out using the previously untested method. Smith was executed...

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn.) said President Biden has seen a physical and communication decline, as fears of the president’s age swarm his reelection efforts. “Look, I’m an American, I want to respect my presidents. I do respect President Biden,” Phillips told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “I’m not seeing cognitive decline. Of course,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he thinks Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) saved his political future by dropping out of the Republican presidential primary race. “I mean, I think if he continued on [...] he was gonna get trounced in his own state,” Newsom said, adding that GOP challenger Nikki Haley is facing similar...

Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” offered praise for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley in her campaign against former President Trump on Thursday. The co-hosts of the talk show reviewed a clip of Haley’s speech at a campaign event in North Charleston, S.C., where she said Trump threw a temper tantrum in his speech...

The Supreme Court denied Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith’s last chance to avoid a nitrogen gas execution by Alabama Thursday, with three liberal justices dissenting. Smith, convicted for a 1988 murder-for-hire killing, is set to be executed by way of nitrogen hypoxia. The method involves stopping people from getting the oxygen they need...

The American population is aging — by 2060, nearly one in four Americans will be 65 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Assisted living facilities are already inadequately prepared for the aging population, witnesses told a Senate panel during a Thursday hearing. Patricia Vessenmeyer, who testified at the hearing, assisted her husband, John...

An activist with the hashtag “Abolish Borders" on her Twitter profile said she met this week with the acting chief of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Longtime New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., and father to two, including musician and Harry Connick Jr., died Thursday at the age of 97.

An Alabama congressman on Wednesday said everyone "has some type of racism in them" in response to a Republican debate question, according to reports.

Attorney General Ken Paxton says Texas has no plans to comply with a Biden administration order to grant Border Patrol agents access to a riverfront park that is at the center of a border dispute.