Joseph Rudolph Wood's lawyers had filed an emergency appeal in federal court during the execution demanding that it be stopped. The appeal said Wood was "gasping and snorting for more than an hour." Attorney General Tom Horne's office says Wood was pronounced dead at 3:49 p.m., one hour and 57 minutes after the execution started
The Secretary of State announced some progress in achieving a cease-fire in Gaza after a meeting in Ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas
An investigative team said in a report Wednesday that there is "no evidence" that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17's cockpit voice recorders had been manipulated
Montana Democratic Senator John Walsh plagiarized portions of a final paper required for his Army War College master's degree, which he earned in 2007 at the age of 46, his campaign confirmed Wednesday
Thousands of children continue to cross the US-Mexico border without parents, and a growing group of pastors in the United States and across Central America and Mexico have a new message: do not send kids on that trip
The Roots' drummer, member of The Tonight Show house band and executive producer of upcoming music show SoundClash talks to TIME about Beyoncé, Sia and how "black people have to come to grips that hip-hop Is a contagious culture"
Mobile ads made up 62% of Facebook's $2.7 billion in ad revenue, and the company generated a profit of $791 million
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg flew to the country himself Wednesday, to “show solidarity with the Israeli people” and to “show that it’s safe to fly in and out" of the country, despite the ongoing crisis in Gaza
The Obama administration issued new rules on the increasingly popular way to move crude in the U.S., after a spate of train derailments, including one accident in April that set fire to a river that passes by downtown Lynchburg, Virginia
Sheik Umar Khan, 39, is credited with treating more than 100 victims of the deadly virus, which is transmitted through direct contact with body fluid, blood and infected tissue of victims, making health workers extremely susceptible to the contagion
Cyber thieves accessed more than 1,000 customer accounts last year at the online ticket marketplace and fraudulently bought tickets for events, capitalizing on data breaches at other websites and from malware on the customers' computers
The Islamic insurgency slaughtered around 50 civilians in nearby villages over the weekend, taking control of a strategic area in Nigeria, adding further evidence that international efforts to curb the militant group's violent activities have failed
Okay, technichally it's all in one chart-making machine made public on Wednesday by the New York Times
