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)
Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93 (apnews.com)
Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93....
Gambia could be first country to reverse ban on female genital cutting (apnews.com)
In a global first, Gambia could reverse its ban on female genital cutting (apnews.com)
After the pandemic, young Chinese again want to study abroad, just not so much in the US (apnews.com)
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Netanyahu snaps back against growing US criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza, says Israel won't stop until 'total victory' is achieved (apnews.com)
Netanyahu snaps back against growing US criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza (apnews.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from top ally the United States against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”...
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs (apnews.com)
As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago....
A warming island's mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds. An extermination is planned (apnews.com)
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs (apnews.com)
As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago....
Latvia starts criminal proceedings against an EU Parliament lawmaker suspected of spying for Russia (apnews.com)
Latvia´s state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security services, according to Latvian media reports Saturday....
Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges (apnews.com)
A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a...
Colorado man died from pet Gila monster's venomous bite, autopsy shows (apnews.com)
A Colorado man who was placed on life support after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster died of complications from the desert lizard’s venom, an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday confirmed....
Russians cast ballots on Day 2 of an election preordained to extend Putin's rule (apnews.com)
Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly 25 years of rule....
A warming island's mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds. An extermination is planned (apnews.com)
Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change, and they are eating seabirds and causing major harm in a special nature reserve with “unique biodiversity.”...