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By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Independent experts working with the U.N.‘s human rights body say Venezuelan authorities have failed to hold to account state-backed perpetrators of violations including arbitrary executions, sexual violence and torture of civilians. They warn that abuses by intelligence and counterintelligence services are continuing.
Continue Reading By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Qatar’s ambassador to Germany has been urged to abolish his country’s penalties for homosexuality at a human rights congress hosted by the German soccer federation two months before the Middle East country hosts the World Cup. Fan representative Dario Minden switched to English to directly address
Continue ReadingBy KYW Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A 24-year-old man is dead after falling onto subway tracks in Center City. Philadelphia police say it happened shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday at 8th and Market Streets. Police on the scene said the man came in contact with the third rail.
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In an alarming assessment, the head of the United Nations warned world leaders Tuesday that nations are “gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction” and aren’t ready or willing to tackle the challenges that threaten humanity’s future — and the planet’s. “Our world is in peril —
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans Tuesday to start voting this week to become integral parts of Russia. The concerted and quickening Kremlin-backed efforts to swallow up four regions could set the stage for Moscow to escalate the war following Ukrainian successes on
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND Oregon (KPTV) — Within 24 hours, the Oregon Humane Society’s Portland and Salem campuses received 38 dogs and 87 cats from only two separate cases. The first case began when OHS was asked by the Oakridge Police Department to help with a situation involving
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story MONTGOMERY, Alabama (WALA) — On Monday a federal judge blocked Alabama from executing an inmate who says the state lost his paperwork requesting an alternative form of execution. An injunction was issued by Judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr. blocking the state from executing Allen Miller
Continue Reading By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Senate study warns that U.S. spy agencies’ efforts to stop China and other adversaries from stealing secrets are hampered by miscommunication and a lack of money and staff at the agency intended to coordinate those efforts. But the study released Tuesday also acknowledges the lack
Continue ReadingOpinion by Mark Suzman for CNN Business Perspectives The first two decades of the 21st century provided more progress for more people than perhaps any other period in human history. Deaths from malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were cut in half. Child deaths fell dramatically. Polio was nearly eradicated. And the global poverty rate fell by
Continue Reading By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press The creator of a true-crime podcast that helped free a Maryland man imprisoned for two decades said Tuesday that she feels a mix of emotions over how long it took authorities to act on evidence that’s long been available. The judge’s order to release Adnan Syed and vacate his murder
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will have to wait another week to learn his fate in a high-stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison. Michael
Continue ReadingBy Jamarlo Phillips and Chelsea Beimfohr Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — The body of a young male juvenile was recovered in a wooded area near a DeKalb County park Monday afternoon, according to police. Police said at 4:20 p.m. officers responded to the 2600 block of Parkway Trail in
Continue ReadingBy Naomi Thomas, CNN The US Preventive Services Task Force says for the first time that adults under the age of 65 should be screened for anxiety, according to a draft recommendation posted on Tuesday. The USPSTF is a group of independent disease prevention and medical experts whose recommendations help guide doctors’ decisions. The draft
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased sharply throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching record levels in 2021. But the burden on different racial and ethnic groups has changed, according to a study by federal researchers published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. For people ages 15 to 34, White people had
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN In a new study, researchers say the experiences of residents of Flint, Michigan, show that environmental disasters like the water crisis can have long-term consequences for mental health. Flint residents reported changes to the water’s color, smell and taste soon after the city turned to the Flint River as a water
Continue ReadingCNN, WAPT, WLBT By Carma Hassan, CNN In a new study, researchers say the experiences of residents of Flint, Michigan, show that environmental disasters like the water crisis can have long-term consequences for mental health. Flint residents reported changes to the water’s color, smell and taste soon after the city turned to the Flint River
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By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Walgreens is spending nearly $1.4 billion to buy the remaining stake in Shields Health Solutions it doesn’t already own and continue pushing into the fast-growing area of specialty pharmacy. The drugstore chain says it will acquire a 30% stake in a deal expected to close by the end of
Continue ReadingBy Rayvin Bleu Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — The state is ordering Lockhart Chemical to stop using its faulty infrastructure that caused the Flint River spill or face fines as high as $25,000 per day. Initially, the city of Flint ordered Lockhart Chemical to cease operations after the June
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose. Doug Ramsey was also charged with making a terroristic threat after the attack Saturday in a
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose. Doug Ramsey was also charged with making a terroristic threat after the attack Saturday in a
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