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A sharply divided Supreme Court declined Tuesday to halt the execution of a death row inmate in Louisiana who argued that the ...

(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) A statue of Mahakala, a wrathful Buddhist deity, is wheeled out as monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu ... (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu school ...