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A file photo from 2008 shows a gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates received lethal injections of drugs. Eight people were executed in Texas in 2023. The state policies mention a "drug team," who are not employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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A failed execution in Idaho has put a spotlight on the teams of people that prisons use to impose the ultimate penalty on condemned inmates.

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After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on gun violence research, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or support. Now a new generation is taking up the charge.

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The outcome may have gone as expected overall, but here's what the details mean for the presidential election.

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President Biden is expected to highlight his push to cap junk fees in his State of the Union address, for a second year in a row. It's a theme he plans to take on the campaign trail.

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Voting concludes Wednesday in Hawaii's Democratic presidential primary. View the live results.

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Former President Donald Trump dominated the Super Tuesday Republican primaries. It was the biggest primary contest day with nearly 36% of the delegates at stake.

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Congressman Colin Allred, D-Texas, has won the state's Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, and will now face Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in the November general election.

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Alabama's 2nd Congressional District was reshaped to give Black voters more political power, and followed a lengthy legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

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