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After spending nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row, 58-year-old Anthony Ray Hinton was freed on Friday after prosecutors finally acknowledged that the case against him lacked sufficient evidence to tie him to the murders of two fast-food workers in 1985.
On Thursday Florida authorities arrested three members of the Ku Klux Klan who worked at a Florida prison for plotting to kill a black prison inmate after his release.
Stanford University will relieve tuition for families making below $125,000 a year, expanding its previous program as well as free room and board to families making less than $65,000 a year.
An, as of yet, unidentified Air Force cadet died on Thursday on the U.S. Air Force Academy campus. The school has not released any details concerning the cadet's death.
A few bats in the attic of his traditional mansion are not reason enough to spend $1.2 million on a new residence for Ohio University's president, students say, and several hundred of them on Thursday showed up for a protest outside the historic Park Place house to protest what they view as a wasteful administration of their tuition dollars.
The rapprochement between the United States and Cuba could mean that tens of thousands of U.S. yachts could soon descend on island, an influx for which the country's infrastructure is not prepared.
The white Arizona police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in December after he mistook the victim's painkillers for a handgun will not face any criminal charges.
At least 79 more were injured, over 500 students rescued At least 147 people were killed in an attack by terrorists at a University in Northern Kenya. More than 500 students were rescued from the scene, according to USA Today.
Puerto Rico's governor Alejandro García-Padilla has just signed a law that will require service providers to accept at least two different types of payments.
Maria Gabriela Chavez, the favorite daughter of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, has become her country’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.
California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered cities and towns across the state to cut water use by 25 percent as part of a wide-ranging set of mandatory drought restrictions. His decision marks the first time in California history such rules have been imposed.
A day after a federal grand jury indicted New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges, the Democrat pleaded not guilty to all 14 counts. He informed Minority Leader Harry Reid that he was temporarily relinquishing his role as ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Starting this summer, approximately 90,000 McDonald's employees working at company-owned stores will received an increase in their paychecks along with paid vacation.
The Mavni program, which expedites citizenship for immigrants with essential medical and language skills, will be expanded to accept 3,000 new soldiers. It will then be expanded again in the next year.
