Tag: prepares
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Alabama prepares for its third nitrogen gas execution
An Alabama inmate convicted in a 1994 murder is poised to die Thursday in the state’s third nitrogen hypoxia execution this year. The emerging execution method, which involves breathing solely nitrogen gas through a mask while being deprived of oxygen, continues to draw concerns over the possibility of prolonged suffering and whether there is an…
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Boeing prepares layoff notices for thousands of workers as turmoil deepens
Thousands of Boeing staff will get layoff notices within weeks, a union and industry sources said, as a senior U.S. official flew to Seattle to try to ease a crippling strike and a major airline issued a warning over the planemaker’s deepening turmoil. Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su’s first in-person intervention comes days after…
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Florida prepares for Hurricane Milton and X exposes users to eating disorder content: Morning Rundown
Hurricane Milton could be the worst storm the Tampa region has seen in a century. An IDF soldier says her warnings about Hamas went unheeded before Oct. 7. And ‘X’ users say eating disorder content flourished on the platform. Here’s what to know today. Florida’s residents prepare or evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall Florida…
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Alabama prepares to put inmate to death in second U.S. nitrogen gas execution
Two years after an Alabama prisoner was spared when staff members struggled to execute him by lethal injection, officials plan to try again Thursday — using the rare method of nitrogen gas. Alan Eugene Miller, 59, would be the second person in the country executed via nitrogen hypoxia, in which a person breathes only nitrogen…
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Tallahassee prepares for ‘historic event’ as Helene closes in on Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Residents of Florida’s capital prepared to evacuate their homes and stocked up on sandbags, food and supplies Wednesday as Hurricane Helene sped toward the Gulf Coast as what the city’s mayor said could be the “strongest hurricane in recorded history ever to hit” the Tallahassee area. Helene was forecast Wednesday evening to…