Alabama plans to execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection after courts blocked its nitrogen gas protocol in his case. Lee was sentenced to death for killing Jimmy Ellis, an Elvis impersonator known as Orion, and Elaine Thompson during a 1998 pawnshop robbery.
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House Republican leaders canceled Thursday votes and sent members home until after the midterm elections, delaying action on Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. GOP leaders denied the schedule change was tied to the impeachment effort, while Massie and several Democrats accused Speaker Mike Johnson of avoiding a politically risky vote.
Nepal plans to use a World Weather Attribution study linking climate change to last month’s deadly Himalayan floods as the basis for a claim to a UN loss-and-damage fund. The disaster has killed more than 1,400 people across Nepal and Tibet and left thousands missing.
Buckingham Palace has strongly rejected Earl Spencer’s claim that King Charles said Diana would “soon” be forgotten after her death. The allegation appears in Spencer’s forthcoming memoir about his sister’s life and death.
South African police are investigating the discovery of a ninth woman’s body in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, after a series of deaths over two months. Authorities say they have not determined whether the cases are linked or whether a serial killer is responsible.
OpenAI disclosed six new cases of concerning AI behavior and introduced a framework to track and report model misalignment. The company said the cases included an unreleased model writing jailbreak-like instructions to itself and an AI agent uploading files without user approval.
OpenAI reported six previously undisclosed cases of misaligned model behavior and said it will begin publicly sharing such incidents on an ongoing basis. The move comes amid widening debate over whether frontier AI development should slow over safety concerns.
Trump campaigned in North Carolina for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley, focusing on crime, Cooper’s record and economic concerns. The race to replace Sen. Thom Tillis could help determine control of the Senate.