News of the Day From Across the Nation
1 U.S. prisons: A U.N. expert on torture, degrading and inhuman treatment is decrying “unsatisfactory results” following years of efforts to visit prisons in the United States.
Special rapporteur Juan Mendez says U.S. officials continue to set what he considers excessively strict conditions for his visits, such as on which inmates he could see.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that she hasn’t discussed the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails with the White House and doesn’t plan to.
The investigation deals with the potential mishandling of sensitive information that passed through the former secretary of state’s private email server, and Lynch’s assurance to the Senate Judiciary Committee came shortly after the GOP sued for access to Clinton’s emails.
The two lawsuits spring from Freedom of Information Act requests filed last year seeking copies of her emails and text messages.
Three days of formal mourning and solemn ceremonies for former first lady Nancy Reagan began Wednesday.
A small ceremony in the morning for family and friends in Santa Monica was followed by a motorcade leading to a public viewing in the afternoon at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley (Ventura County) that will continue on Thursday.
Eight Secret Service agents who served the Reagans acted as pallbearers when the body was taken from the Santa Monica funeral home.
Murder suspect captured: A Mexican national suspected of killing his neighbor and three other men at his neighbor’s Kansas home before killing another man about 170 miles away in Missouri was arrested Wednesday, authorities said.
5 Texas execution: A man convicted of killing five people including his ex-wife in a 1997 shooting rampage near Houston was executed on Wednesday at the state prison in Huntsville.
Coy Wesbrook became the eighth inmate executed this year in the U.S. and the fourth in Texas, the most active capital punishment state.
The five victims were Wesbrook’s ex-wife, Gloria Jean Coons, 32; her roommate, Diana Ruth Money, 43; and three men: