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The Supreme Court seems to be in the middle of a rare public feud over how the death penalty should be enforced. The justices have been bitterly divided over the execution of a Muslim inmate in Alabama, who claimed his religious rights were violated because he could not have an imam with him in the execution chamber. There have been two other recent death penalty cases that raised the question of a person's rights in their final hours: One involved a request for a Buddhist spiritual adviser in the execution chamber, and in another, an inmate claimed a lethal injection would cause him "severe harm and suffering" because he suffers from a rare disease. The debate among the justices has spilled over into unrelated legal conversations, and experts worry that the addition of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the general right-moving trend of the court may heighten future tensions around death penalty cases. | |  | | Brexit
Time for your Brexit update: Things are still a mess! On Monday, UK members of Parliament ended up rejecting four different alternative options to Prime Minister Theresa May's unpopular Brexit plan. The options included two proposals to keep Britain in a customs union with the European Union that narrowly missed out on a majority. Today, May will hold a mammoth five-hour meeting of her Cabinet to try to bust the deadlock and possibly get her Withdrawal Agreement back into consideration. Rumors have also swirled that the Prime Minister is considering a snap election as one way of getting more clarity on the whole situation. The UK government has denied that this could be an option, but hey, they're approaching serious crunch time. If no deal or agreement is reached, the UK will crash out of the European Union on April 12th. | |  | | Brunei
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is going to step down just a few weeks before his term expires on April 28th. The announcement comes after weeks of protests and calls for the 82-year-old's resignation. Bouteflika came to power two decades ago, and he is widely believed to be incapacitated due to illness. As a result, critics say he has left the reins of Africa's biggest country in the hands of a civilian-military elite. Bouteflika was originally planning to run in the country's presidental election at the end of the month, but it appears that the people of Algeria will be choosing a new leader instead. | |  |  People are talking about these. Read up. Join in. | | $88 billion
The amount Americans borrowed to pay for health care last year, according to a new study. Also, 65 million adults say they had a health issue but didn't seek treatment due to cost. Nearly a quarter had to cut back on spending to pay for health care or medicine. | | |  | Excuse me, coming through
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