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.

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

The pneumonic plague is nearly always fatal without treatment.

A federal judge dismissed a legal challenge brought by Lutheran churches to a Tennessee law criminalizing the harboring of immigrants.

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