The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider how states decide if a death penalty candidate is intellectually disabled. At issue is the case against Joseph Clifton Smith of Alabama.

Justices to consider how to determine if a person is "intellectually disabled." More than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled people convicted of capital ...

Carbon monoxide can be deadly. Every year, over 400 people in the U.S. die unintentionally from CO poisoning, and more than 100,000 wind up in emergency rooms, according to the Centers for Disease ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...

No car company wants to admit this now because it's become a marketing turn-off for half the country, but electric vehicles are supposed to be about saving the planet. They're supposed to be about ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

Where Microsoft promises enterprises better understanding of their data for workers and autonomous agents alike, analysts fear deployment hurdles and vendor lock-in. With Fabric IQ, Microsoft is ...

When GM chief engineer Al Oppenheiser was tapped to develop the electric GMC Hummer pickup truck, he was given an aggressive timeline that seemed impossible: cut two years from the development cycle.

New research reveals that intelligence plays a key role in how well people process speech in noisy environments. The study compared neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals and found that cognitive ...

"I know that he can't seem to find himself in the Oval Office to make sure that he can end this shutdown, but he does have time to troll me. So listen, if he's down, I'm down," Democratic Rep.

The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam President Donald Trump seemed to refer to a dementia ...