Texas’ top criminal appeals court has barred a civil court judge from issuing orders in a lawsuit by three death row inmates who allege the state plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to execute them.

The United Nations has announced it is disbanding a fact-finding mission requested by Russia and Ukraine to investigate the killings at a prison in eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists.

A Kansas prisoner alleges in a federal lawsuit that the state Department of Corrections is not providing him with proper treatment for terminal cancer.

The U.S. Forest Service is pushing ahead with plans to log or conduct controlled burns in parts of the Hoosier National Forest despite concerns the project could taint the drinking water supply used by more than 100,000 people.

An environmental group has given the Chesapeake Bay watershed a D-plus grade in its “State of the Bay” report — the same grade it gave the watershed two years ago.

Nate Thayer, a fearless reporter who survived several brushes with death over decades covering conflict in Southeast Asia and was the last western journalist to interview Pol Pot, the leader of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, has died.

The Coast Guard has removed more than 300 Cuban migrants from a remote island national park off the Florida coast.

An Iowa woman who was believed to be the oldest living person in the U.S. has died at the age of 115.

A beach town that is defying New Jersey’s order not to shore up its eroding sand dunes is suing the state for $21 million.

A New York City police officer has been suspended after a video posted on social media showed him hitting a teenage girl while he was trying to break up a fight.