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Rights watchdog accuses the World Bank of complicity in rights abuses around Tanzanian national park
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A rights watchdog is accusing the World Bank of enabling the Tanzanian government's violent expansion of a national park through financing from the global lender. The World Bank has failed to hold Tanzanian authorities accountable for serious rights...
Senior Thai national park official, 3 others, acquitted in 9-year-old case of missing activist
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Thursday acquitted four national park employees, including a senior official, of the kidnapping and murder of an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances more than nine years ago. The activist, Porlajee...
Colorado supermarket shooting suspect suggested to psychologist that he wanted police to kill him
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 told a mental health evaluator he bought firearms to carry out a mass shooting and suggested that he wanted police to kill him, according to Wednesday court testimony. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa...
NY Attorney General Letitia James has a long history of fighting Trump, other powerful targets
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Letitia James fixated on Donald Trump as she campaigned for New York attorney general, branding the then-president a “con man” and ″carnival barker” and pledging to shine a “bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings.” Five years...
US secures the release of the soldier who crossed into North Korea 2 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has secured the release of a U.S. soldier who sprinted across a heavily fortified border into North Korea more than two months ago, and he is on his way back to America, officials announced Wednesday. U.S. ally Sweden and rival China helped with the transfer. ...
New Mexico trial begins over allegations that Democrats tried to dilute votes with redistricting map
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Accusations that New Mexico's Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of a politically conservative oil-producing region with its redistricting map went to trial on Wednesday. The trial’s outcome is likely to have a big influence on which party...
Remains found of Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew, who went missing on Mother's Day 2020
DENVER (AP) — Investigators have discovered the remains of a Colorado mom who went for a bike ride on Mother’s Day 2020 and never returned, authorities announced Wednesday. The discovery of Suzanne Morphew's remains, which came as authorities were pursuing a different case, is...
Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court. ...
Redistricting redux: North Carolina lawmakers to draw again new maps for Congress and themselves
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With a new state budget completed, North Carolina legislators now turn their attention yet again to mapping the state's congressional and General Assembly districts. The House and Senate redistricting committees scheduled hearings this week — the last one...
Memphis says Mikey Williams is enrolled online but barred from hoops activities
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Star recruit Mikey Williams is enrolled in online classes at Memphis and remains on the roster but will not have access to team facilities or activities until his court case on six felony gun charges is completed, the basketball program announced Wednesday. ...
