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Three Times to the Death Chamber, Now Out on Bond

Richard Glossip was scheduled to be executed three times. On Thursday, an Oklahoma judge released him on bond while he awaits a retrial — and reopened the broader question of how a state with this much doubt kept setting dates.

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How a Texas Launch Pad Put Passenger Jets in Its Path

When SpaceX chose a remote Gulf Coast outpost to develop Starship, it placed a 400-foot rocket on a flight path that crosses busy Caribbean airspace. ProPublica's review of internal records shows the FAA was warned, repeatedly, about the risk to commercial aviation.

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The Cases That Did Not Hold: ICE's Mass Arrests, Tested in Court

More than three hundred people detained in immigration sweeps and charged with assaulting or interfering with officers have seen their cases collapse. ProPublica and FRONTLINE found a pattern: officer statements debunked by video.

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