Big Pharma's Johnson & Johnson under investigation in South Africa over 'excessive' drug prices (apnews.com)
Canadian border agents seize $6 million in cocaine at North Dakota entry point (apnews.com)
Canadian border agents seized nearly 140 pounds (63 kilograms) of cocaine worth $6 million from a commercial truck seeking to enter the country from northeastern North Dakota, officials said.
Tim Scott attacks Ron DeSantis over Florida's slavery curriculum (apnews.com)
It is concerning we are still arguing over if slavery was wrong in today’s time....
Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says (apnews.com)
Video on subject, by Hindustan Times:...
Brazilian President Lula to undergo hip surgery, will work from home for 3 weeks (apnews.com)
Australia's prime minister stands firm against the US on WikiLeaks founder's prosecution (apnews.com)
Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine (apnews.com)
More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.
Republicans pick Jim Jordan as nominee for House speaker, putting job within the Trump ally's reach (apnews.com)
Days after deadly missile strike on Ukrainian cafe, grief and a search for answers (apnews.com)
U.N. and local investigators searched for answers on Saturday at the site of a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian village that days earlier turned its sole cafe to rubble and killed nearly 52 people gathered for a dead soldier’s wake, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv. Local...
Largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era opens in New Jersey (apnews.com)
If stones could talk, sing and tell stories, Yogi Trivedi believes the marble and limestone that adorn the spires, pillars and archways of the stunning Hindu temple in central New Jersey would compose a paean to the divine....
Georgia made it easier for parents to challenge school library books. Almost no one has done so (apnews.com)
Georgia Republican lawmakers passed a law to make it easier to challenge school library books as inappropriate, but few people are using it.
German archbishop 'disappointed' by diocese employees' attempts to access porn (apnews.com)
BERLIN (AP) — The archbishop of Cologne, one of Germany’s most important Catholic dioceses, expressed disappointment Friday that employees used work computers to try to access pornographic websites.
In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred (apnews.com)
A police dog attacked a Black trucker on his knees. An Ohio city is dealing with the aftermath (apnews.com)
Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson (apnews.com)
Colorado upheld a warrant’s reverse keyword search for directions to a house. They claim the search warrant, which was overly broad and without individual probable cause, did not violate Google’s millions of US users’ fourth amendment protections, because the court said the police were acting in good faith under what was...
Used clothing from the West is a big seller in East Africa. Uganda's leader wants a ban (apnews.com)
Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting the oppression of women in Iran (apnews.com)
Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for fighting the oppression of women in Iran....
Court says Netanyahu's son must pay damages to woman he implied had affair with his father's rival (apnews.com)
The court ordered Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair Netanyahu, to pay over $34,000 in compensation and $6,000 in legal costs to Dana Cassidy. Cassidy sued him for defamation in 2020 after he insinuated on social media that she was romantically involved with Benny Gantz, who was running against his father for prime minister at the...
Kansas police and a small newspaper are at the center of a 1st Amendment fight after a newsroom raid (apnews.com)
South Carolina state Sen. John Scott, longtime Democratic lawmaker, dies at 69 (apnews.com)
The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday is announcing new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.
War-weary mothers, wives and children of Ukrainian soldiers demand a cap on military service time (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Scores of protesters gathered on the streets of Ukrainian cities on Friday to demand a cap of 18 months on mandatory military service, amid new suggestions of possible Ukrainian and international weariness with the 20-month war....
Spain's report on Catholic Church sex abuse estimates victims could number in hundreds of thousands (apnews.com)
A Hong Kong court upholds a ruling in favor of equal inheritance rights for same-sex couples (apnews.com)
A Hong Kong court has upheld a ruling that favored the granting of equal inheritance rights to same-sex couples. It's the latest victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community.
New Mexico governor defends approach to attempted gun restrictions, emergency order on gun violence (apnews.com)
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday defended her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic, citing statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings, while awaiting a crucial court ruling on a signature effort to suspend...
