A felon should be someone who has committed capital offenses, not those who are caught with the wrong-colored pill.

If our society is to survive, we have to draw the line somewhere with freedom of speech.

Kendrick Lamar came away with the second-most nominations, with eight. Adele and Brandi Carlile both received seven nods. Harry Styles, Mary J. Blige, Future, DJ Khaled, The-Dream and mastering engineer Randy Merrill each picked up six.

Markie, who birth name was Marcel Theo Hall, became known within the rap genre realm as the self-proclaimed “Clown Prince of Hip-Hop” for lighthearted lyrics and a humorous nature.

Prominent Democrats are signaling a new openness to measures that activists have long vilified as an insidious method of keeping minorities from the ballot box.

The Grammy-nominated performer produced the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (Up in Here)” and rapped with a trademark delivery that was often paired with growls, barks and “What!” as an ad-lib.

The authority of the name of Jesus is not to be used by individuals acting alone, because of the danger of misuse, and should never be used to hurt another.

Social media profiles that apparently belonged to Sayoc were filled with conspiracy theories and antipathy toward liberals.

Currently, climbers defecate in a bag or a barrel, and their waste is dumped into earth pits on Gorak Shep.

In the months after Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was freed from Taliban captivity, senior Army officials struck a far milder and more sympathetic tone than Army commanders who are now pursuing charges that could send him to prison for life.

Officials in Dallas reported that a patient with Zika virus was infected after having sex with an ill individual who had returned from a country where Zika was circulating.

Tropical diseases are marching northward as climate change lets mosquitoes and ticks expand their ranges. The list of scary bug-borne illnesses seems to get longer every year: Lyme, West Nile. Chagas, dengue, chikunguyna — and now Zika.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was released by the Taliban in exchange for five former leaders of the militant group held in Guantanamo Bay, will face charges of desertion and endangering U.S. troops in an Army court-martial.

Twenty minutes after Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his remote Army outpost in Afghanistan in the middle of a summer night, carrying little more than vacuum-packed chicken, knives, water and a compass, he began to realize just how dire his predicament was.

The stream of incidents this year — including an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado that left three dead last week and a shooting at a community college in Oregon that left 10 dead, including the gunman, in October — has intensified the debate over the accessibility of powerful firearms.