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The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that “numerous constitutional violations” during the trial and sentencing of a man who spent decades on death row merit a new trial

Human rights received far less mention on President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East this week than is usual for presidential visits to autocratic countries

A federal judge in Maryland will hear arguments over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege in the court case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Kseniia Petrova, Harvard researcher arrested in February, faces deportation as lawyer calls case ‘meritless’ A Harvard scientist who has been held in US immigration detention for months was charged on Wednesday with smuggling frog embryos into the United States, and likely faces deportation. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist and research...

Gene-editing breakthrough has potential to treat array of devastating genetic diseases soon after birth, scientists say Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in...

Scientific study of 3,000 dolls down the decades shows most now wear flats She walked into the world on high-heeled mules, but as Barbie’s many careers gathered pace, her feet became more planted on the ground, researchers say. A rare analysis of nearly 3,000 Barbies released over 65 years found...

Coller-Dolittle award won by US team for discovering call that triggers avoidance and could be used as alarm signal A $100,000 prize for communicating with animals has been scooped by researchers who have shed light on the meaning of dolphins’ whistles. The Coller-Dolittle Prize for Two-way Inter-species Communication was launched...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come under bipartisan criticism over his agency’s actions to cancel billions of dollars in congressionally approved spending to address chronic pollution in minority communities and jump-start clean e...

Harvard University is putting up $250 million of its own money to continue campus research amid a federal funding freeze imposed by the Trump administration, but the school’s president warns of sacrifices ahead

A former New York City Fire Department chief has been sentenced to three years in prison for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to fast-track fire safety inspections