• Associated Press

    Alabama to carry out the 2nd nitrogen gas execution in the US

    Alabama is preparing to carry out the nation’s second nitrogen gas execution on Thursday as disagreements continue over the humaneness of the new method of putting prisoners to death. Alan Eugene Miller, 59, is scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas at a south Alabama prison. Miller was convicted of killing three men — Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis — in back-to-back workplace shootings in 1999.

  • Associated Press

    House panel investigating Trump assassination attempts is holding its first hearing

    A bipartisan congressional task force investigating the assassination attempts against Donald Trump is set to hold its first hearing Thursday as lawmakers rush to ensure candidate safety just weeks before the U.S. presidential election. The panel — comprised of seven Republicans and six Democrats — has spent the last two months trying to decipher the security failures that allowed a gunman to scale a roof and open fire at the former president during a July 13 campaign rally in Pennsylvania, killing a spectator. Now they are also investigating this month's Secret Service arrest of a man with a rifle on Trump's Florida golf course who also allegedly sought to assassinate the GOP presidential nominee.

  • Storyful

    Evacuation Orders Lifted After Ohio Chemical Leak

    Residents were allowed to return to their homes in Whitewater Township, Ohio on Wednesday, September 24, as evacuations orders sparked by a chemical leak were lifted.The Hamilton County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency ordered an evacuation for the area on Tuesday morning, warning of a possible explosion.The agency confirmed a rail car had been leaking a flammable chemical but said the leak had been stopped as of Wednesday morning.Officials lifted the evacuations on Wednesday night and locals were permitted to return to their homes.This footage, filmed by Aaron Vetter, shows a leak flowing from the stopped rail car in the village of Cleves, Ohio. Credit: Aaron Vetter via Storyful