Drug Lobbyists’ Battle Cry Over Prices: Blame the Others

By ERIC LIPTON and KATIE THOMAS May 29, 2017 WASHINGTON — Hundreds of independent pharmacists swarmed the House and Senate office buildings one recent afternoon, climbing the marble staircases as they rushed from one appointment to the next,...

Arkansas Puts Ledell Lee to Death, in Its First Execution Since 2005

By ALAN BLINDER and MANNY FERNANDEZ April 21, 2017 VARNER, Ark. — The State of Arkansas, dismissing criticism that it intended to rush too many prisoners to their deaths too quickly, on Thursday night carried out its first execution in more...

Monday’s Arkansas Execution Halted by State Justices

By ALAN BLINDER April 17, 2017 VARNER, Ark. — Hours before the state hoped to carry out its first execution in more than a decade, the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday moved to block the inmate from being put to death. The decision was a significant...

Arkansas Judge Moves to Block Executions

By ALAN BLINDER April 14, 2017 A judge in Arkansas moved Friday to block the state from carrying out up to seven executions this month, deepening the turmoil that surrounds a planned pace of killing with no equal in the modern history of American capital...

Prince’s Death: One Year Later, Unsolved Mysteries

By SHEILA M. ELDRED, SERGE F. KOVALESKI and BEN SISARIO April 7, 2017 MINNEAPOLIS — It is one of the great mysteries in recent American pop culture: the death of Prince almost one year ago and the circumstances that led him to...