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Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations -- following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the…

The San Francisco police department has requested use of robots capable of dealing “deadly force” in high-risk scenarios.A policy document obtained by The Verge document showed the department’s plan for its platoon of 17 robots in the…

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.Ivey's office issued a statement saying she…

Kenneth Eugene Smith Alabama Department of Corrections Atmore, Alabama — Alabama's execution of a man convicted in the 1988…

New research suggests that adopting some of the strategies behind successfully treating the childhood disease of spinal muscular atrophy may enable the development of therapies to curb the muscle decline that accompanies aging.The research…

Researchers discovered that by blocking the production of an enzyme called DHODH, they were able to halt the growth of MYC gene-amplified medulloblastoma in mouse models, the most aggressive subtype of this cancer.Researchers discovered…

"There is a widely-held belief that viruses always evolve to become less lethal over time. I wish that was true. I don't think that's true," said Dr Ashish K Jha, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator on Day 1 of the HT Leadership…

It started with a mole on Courtney Mangan's back. When her family noticed it looked like it had "changed a bit", she thought it couldn't hurt to have it looked at.Two GPs told her it looked fine, so the 29-year-old was in the clear to get…

A Government laboratory in Maryland plans to make the circulating monkeypox strain more lethal in highly controversial research in mice.The team wants to equip the dominant clade - which mostly causes a rash and flu-like symptoms - with…

Thomas Billings Jr. and his wife, Sarah, decided to ride out Hurricane Ian in the family room of their Naples ranch home, close to Edgewater Beach.About two hours after the storm’s landfall, Billings was returning from fetching something…