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Texas puts man to death for a retired professors killing in its 600th execution since 1982

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for the killing of a 77-year-old retired college professor. Edward Busby Jr. was pronounced dead at 8:11 p. m. following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, hours after the U. S. Supreme Court lifted a stay over his disabilities claims. The execution capped a of by...

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Trump insists US-China relations are in a good place despite differences as he wraps up Beijing trip

BEIJING (AP) — As President Donald Trump wraps up his whirlwind visit to China on Friday, he's insistent that relations between the world's two biggest powers are good and getting better despite deep differences on Iran, Taiwan and more. Trump started his last day in Beijing by insisting in a social media post that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had “congratulated me on so many tremendous successes” and had been referring only to his predecessor, former U. S. President Joe Biden, when he to a...

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US agents arrest tourist after video shows a rock hurled at an endangered Hawaiian monk seals head

SEATTLE (AP) — A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal just off a Maui beach last week. Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, made arrangements to surrender in the Seattle area on Wednesday as special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were seeking to arrest him, Assistant U. S. Attorney Aislinn Affinito in Honolulu said...

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