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Trump nixes special education agency, lays off staff amid shutdown

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Alabama wants to execute a man with intellectual disabilities. That’s unconstitutional, legal advocates say

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Hamm v. Joseph Clifton Smith. Smith,...

PART I: Diabolical Plans

It was early 1939 — before World War II, before Adolf Hitler’s crimes against humanity were infamous — when a desperate man wrote a letter. The letter writer, ardent Nazi supporter Richard Kretschmar, had already tried and failed to convince a local doctor in Leipzig, Germany, to carry out what he wanted done.