An aid worker’s airport disappearance stirs fear of repression following disputed Venezuela election (apnews.com)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The last time anyone heard from Edni López was Sunday. The 33-year-old political science professor and award-winning poet was preparing to board a flight to Argentina to visit a friend when she texted from the airport that something was wrong with her passport....
Officials say suspects in foiled plot at Taylor Swift shows hoped to kill as many people as possible (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18415933
Rural Nevada sheriff probes potential hate crime after Black man says he was racially harassed (apnews.com)
A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man he said directed a racial slur at him and said “they have a hanging tree” for people like him....
Venezuela's top prosecutor announces criminal probe against opposition leaders González, Machado (apnews.com)
Venezuela’s top prosecutor on Monday announced a criminal investigation against the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo González and its leader Maria Corina Machado over their call on the armed forces to abandon their support for President Nicolás Maduro and to stop repressing demonstrators....
Man dies parachuting on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon (apnews.com)
A man died at Grand Canyon National Park after attempting the high-risk parachute leap from Yavapai Point on the South Rim, the park said Friday....
Sea lions are stranding themselves on California's coast with signs of poisoning by harmful algae (apnews.com)
Sea lions are stranding themselves on a long stretch of the California coast and showing signs that they may have been poisoned by a bloom of harmful algae, experts said Thursday....
Lawyers for Saudi Arabia seek dismissal of claims it supported the Sept. 11 hijackers (apnews.com)
Lawyers for relatives of 9/11 victims say that a group of extremist religious leaders in Saudi Arabia gained influence in the Saudi government and aided the 9/11 hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11 attackers were Saudis....
Bangladesh mourns some 200 deaths as student protests wind down and thousands are arrested (apnews.com)
China is restricting export of drones that can be used for military purposes and some drone features (apnews.com)
Myanmar's military regime extends state of emergency by 6 months as civil war rages (apnews.com)
USDA moves to limit salmonella in raw poultry products (apnews.com)
The Agriculture Department on Monday announced plans to limit salmonella in poultry products in the U.S., a proposal that officials say will keep contaminated meat off store shelves and lead to fewer illnesses....
Thousands rally in various Serbia towns to protest against lithium excavation deal (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/38403625
Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/26027387
Japan’s Sado gold mine gains UNESCO status after Tokyo pledges to exhibit dark WWII history (apnews.com)
TOKYO (AP) — The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark history of abusing Korean laborers during World War II....
Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines (apnews.com)
“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed...
Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in a WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it (apnews.com)
In a WhatsApp chat that quickly devolved into depravity, a group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted about their “world debauchery tour” of “boozing and whoring” on the government’s dime. They swapped lurid images of their latest sexual conquests. And at one point they even joked about “forcible...
2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The former prisoners of war still puzzle over the strange events leading up to the night now seared into their memories, when an explosion ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks and killed so many comrades two years ago....
Southwest Airlines to assign seats, breaking 50-year tradition (apnews.com)
Fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies hits the town of Jasper (apnews.com)
US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department ordered the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian assets on Tuesday, with the goal of eventually seizing those billions of dollars in assets and selling them to aid the devastated Ukrainian economy....
Uncertainty is the winner and incumbents the losers so far in a year of high-stakes global elections (apnews.com)
Judge removed from long-running gang and racketeering case against rapper Young Thug and others (apnews.com)
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Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86 (apnews.com)
Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86....