QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday sided with a group of Peruvian villagers who have complained that companies linked to a powerful South American church group have tried to evict them from their land using lawsuits and obscure land titling schemes. In a video recorded at his residence in the Vatican, the Pope […]
Irked that the case of an Arizona rancher accused of killing an illegal immigrant is taking longer than he wanted, the judge in the case stalked out of the courtroom Thursday. George Alan Kelly, 75, is on trial for a second-degree murder charge in connection with the shooting death of an illegal immigrant last year. […]
Poetic justice doesn’t feel right when the recipient is only a child. In an ironic twist that some would describe that way, a preteen girl facing murder charges in the killing of a 64-year-old disabled man found herself on the receiving end of violence when she was shot in Washington just four blocks from the […]
PORTLAND, Maine — The founder of Special Olympics Maine groomed a 9-year-old boy for sexual abuse that spanned two decades in which he encouraged the victim to accompany him on business trips and provided him with employment – and threatened him to keep it quiet, according to a lawsuit. The plaintiff, who was not a […]
Russian mercenaries from the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group working alongside Mali’s armed forces have killed dozens of civilians in the West African country since December. The killings include those from drone strikes during a wedding celebration and later a funeral in February that resulted in the death of at least 14 people, including four children, Human […]
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada judge on Tuesday tentatively set an Aug. 5 trial date for a former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an investigative journalist. But he acknowledged that still more time might be needed to finish searching the slain reporter’s computers for possible evidence in the case. Former Democratic county administrator […]
A New York City subway rider died Monday after possibly being pushed onto the tracks in a station in East Harlem. An oncoming train was unable to stop and ran over the unidentified person. The unidentified victim was struck at 6:48 p.m. at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station, a New York City Police […]
WASHINGTON — Hackers linked to the Chinese government launched a sweeping, state-backed operation that targeted U.S. officials, journalists, corporations, pro-democracy activists and the U.K.’s election watchdog, American and British authorities said Monday in announcing a set of criminal charges and sanctions. The intention of the campaign, which officials say began in 2010, was to harass […]
If it wasn’t clear that global leaders have no respect for President Joe Biden and his administration, it should be now. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sat down with “60 Minutes” in a program that aired Sunday to discuss the recent recommendations and proposals he’s given the United States for Mexico’s assistance in dealing […]
Someone should really make a documentary about this. A “rock-star” Stanford Education professor who helped inspire math de-tracking in San Francisco and who subsequently helped re-write the California math curriculum with an emphasis on equity has been accused of dozens of cases of “citation misrepresentation.” A Stanford University professor, whose research was credited with inspiring […]
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