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Supreme Court Hears Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

10 December 2025 at 18:04
The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

Two decades ago, the Supreme Court barred the execution of people with mental disabilities as a violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. But the court’s composition has changed since then.

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House last month.
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