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Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(ATMORE, Ala.) -- An Alabama man has become the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. Her husband, Charles Sennett, allegedly hired someone -- who, in turn, hired two men, including Smith -- to kill his wife and make it look like a burglary gone wrong. Smith was to be executed in November 2022 via lethal injection, but, despite...

K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Western North America has experienced an unprecedented "hot drought" over the last century, according to new research that shows the amplification of heat in the region over recent decades. "Hot drought," a climate phenomenon that occurs amid concurrent heat and drought conditions, has affected the western portion of the continent in recent decades at a frequency and severity that was not ...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Its an old Hollywood story: some criminal suspects believe they can outrun the law, and escape their charges, by fleeing to Mexico. But when fugitives who commit a crime in the United States cross the southern border, the U.S. government requires some external help in tracking them down. "No nation is just going into another nation to put handcuffs on somebody," John Muffler, a former U.S. Marshal, told "Impact x Nightline." Oftentimes, help comes in the...

ABC News(WASHNGTON) -- Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm can relate to Americans anxiety over electric vehicles. The former governor of Michigan and longtime EV owner (who currently drives a Ford Mach-E) says she has experienced her own challenges with public charging on road trips. She has heard from drivers who are reluctant to give up their eight-cylinder engines and large trucks and SUVs for an electric model. But she is convinced that more Americans will soon realize the benefits of owning...

Mark Chivers/Getty Images(MOREHEAD CITY,  N.C.) -- Dozens of cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued by researchers off the coast of North Carolina this week. The North Carolina State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology said it saved 36 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Lookout. While they took in 109 cold-stunned sea turtles, only 36 survived, the marine center said. The surviving turtles are being examined and treated. The turtles will then be transferred to the North Carolin...

An exterior view of the Dunkin Donuts restaurant in Muncy, Pennsylvania, June 10, 2023. (Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Lactose intolerant coffee drinkers who opt for nondairy alternatives like soy, almond or oat milk in their drinks at Dunkin may pay as much as $2 more for the alternatives, which a new potential class-action lawsuit claims could constitute discrimination. The suit, filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Calif...

PeacockThe world of public radio gets animated in Zach Woods’ new Peacock series In the Know. Woods stars in, executive produces and serves as the showrunner of the stop-motion animated series that he created, which he described as quite personal to him. “Its born of a love of public radio and a hatred for myself,” Woods said. “I grew up listening to public radio all the time. [It] was always on at my house. Like, when I hear the All Things Considered theme, I can smell the cucumbers...

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An Alabama man is set to be the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. Her husband, Charles Sennett, allegedly hired someone -- who, in turn, hired two men, including Smith -- to kill his wife and make it look like a burglary gone wrong. Smith was to be executed in November 2022 via lethal injection, but, despite m...

U.S. Coast Guard(NEW YORK) -- The United States Coast Guard rescued 33 people from a sinking vessel in deep water when their boat began taking on water and sinking. The incident occurred on Monday when Coast Guard District Seven watchstanders received notification from the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Dependable after they encountered a sailing vessel taking on water with 33 people on board approximately six miles north of Cap-Hatien near the Haiti coast, according to a statement from the U.S. Coa...

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