Officials in Texas rejected a request for clemency in a controversial case Wednesday. Robert Roberson would be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder linked to shaken baby syndrome. Some experts say his conviction was based on faulty, outdated scientific evidence.
A Texas A&M committee ruled the university’s firing of professor Melissa McCoul was unjustified after a video showed a student removed from class for objecting to a gender identity lesson....