3rd of 6 former officers in Mississippi gets 17.5 years for racist torture of 2 Black men (apnews.com)
May I introduce to you … the Goon Squad....
AP documents grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls 'dangerous and abusive' (apnews.com)
Kuwabara’s dilemma is one an increasing number of American consumers face: With shrimp the leading seafood eaten in the United States, the largest supplier in this country is India, where the industry struggles with labor and environmental problems....
3 Idaho corrections officers shot as gunman breaks an inmate out of Boise hospital, police say (apnews.com)
A suspect staged a brazen attack to break a prison inmate out of a Boise hospital overnight, shooting and seriously wounding two Idaho corrections officers, police said. A third was also shot and wounded when arriving police mistook the officer for the suspect and opened fire....
Prabowo Subianto, ex-general tied to a past dictatorship, is confirmed as Indonesia's next president (apnews.com)
Subianto lost two previous presidential elections to Widodo, and the Constitutional Court rejected his bids to overturn each of those results because of unfounded fraud allegations....
IRS chief zeroes in on wealthy tax cheats in AP interview (apnews.com)
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has a message for high-wealth tax cheats who are wrongly deducting private jet travel and otherwise shorting the government on their taxes: Pay your fair share so “others aren’t shouldering the burden of funding our government.”...
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he's quitting as head of his party and the country (apnews.com)
England is limiting gender transitions for youths. US legislators are watching (apnews.com)
Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision in England to restrict gender transitions for young people as support for their own related proposals....
Supreme Court opens new frontier for insurrection claims that could target state and local officials (apnews.com)
Two recent U.S. Supreme Court actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in “insurrection” or providing “aid and comfort” to enemies of the Constitution, based on a post-Civil War era addition to the nation’s foundational...
Man to plead guilty in eagle ‘killing spree’ on reservation to sell feathers on black market (apnews.com)
A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market....
California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods (apnews.com)
The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League....
Polygamous sect member pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children (apnews.com)
A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children....
Peter Navarro is 1st Trump White House official to serve prison time related to Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)
Former White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison Tuesday for a contempt of Congress conviction, becoming the first senior Trump administration official to be locked up for a crime related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack....
Sergeant faulted for actions before Maine mass shooting is running for sheriff (apnews.com)
A Maine sergeant who has been criticized by an investigatory panel for his handling of a report about a man who later carried out a mass shooting is running for sheriff, state records show....
An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields (apnews.com)
Brazil's Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data (apnews.com)
Mississippi ex-deputy gets 20-year sentence in racist torture of 2 Black men (apnews.com)
A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year....
Sex trade to slavery: A UN agency says criminals reap $236B a year in profits from forced labor (apnews.com)
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the...
6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men (apnews.com)
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday....
Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti's capital, with at least a dozen killed nearby (apnews.com)
Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti's capital, with at least a dozen killed nearby (apnews.com)
Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing in DC over leaking Dominion documents (apnews.com)
Social media influencer is charged with joining the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol (apnews.com)
A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police, according to court recordsunsealed on Monday....
Supreme Court rejects appeal by former New Mexico county commissioner banned for Jan. 6 insurrection (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of office over his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol....
Netanyahu agrees to send Israeli officials to Washington to discuss prospective Rafah operation (apnews.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation as each side is looking to make “clear to the other its perspective,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said....
EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted (apnews.com)
