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Month: August 2023

Israeli police kill Palestinian teen assailant after stabbing. Israelis hurt in West Bank bombing

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they have shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who stabbed a man in a Jerusalem light-rail station. Shortly after Wednesday’s late-night incident, Palestinian militants detonated a bomb near a convoy of Israeli troops escorting Jewish worshippers to a holy site in the occupied

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Guatemala’s Congress refuses to recognize president-elect’s party

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Congress, which is controlled by the currently governing party, on Wednesday refused to recognize the seven lawmakers from the Seed Movement party of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, following the suspension of his party earlier this week. Lawmakers declared their Seed Movement colleagues independents in the

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Native American children have been sent to more Indigenous boarding schools than previously reported, group says

By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Native American children have attended at least 523 Indigenous boarding schools since the 19th century, including hundreds that were run by the federal government to assimilate children into White society, a non-profit group says. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition released a new list of Indigenous boarding

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Former deputy in Massachusetts indicted for allegedly threatening to blow up courthouse

BOSTON (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy in Massachusetts has been indicted for allegedly threatening to blow up a courthouse and kill law enforcement officers. Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy said a federal grand jury on Wednesday had indicted Joshua Ford, 42, of Kingston, Massachusetts. on three counts of interstate transmission of a threatening communication.

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West Point time capsule that appeared to contain nothing more than silt yields centuries-old coins

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A nearly 200-year-old West Point time capsule that appeared to yield little more than dust when it was opened during a disappointing livestream contained hidden treasure after all, the U.S. Military Academy said Wednesday. It was just more hidden than expected. The lead box believed to have been placed by

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University of North Carolina students rally for gun safety after fatal shooting of faculty member

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A school shooting that frightened students and left one faculty member dead at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has galvanized gun safety advocates. They rallied the grieving community Wednesday to fight for stricter state gun laws. A crowd of about

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La Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz de Colombia imputa a excomandante del Ejército Mario Montoya por “falsos positivos”

Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — La Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) imputó este miércoles por primera vez a un excomandante del Ejército colombiano como posible “autor de crímenes de guerra y de lesa humanidad”. La Sala de Reconocimiento de Verdad y de Responsabilidad acusó al general retirado Mario Montoya de haber cometido 130 ejecuciones

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Mar-a-Lago property manager’s lawyers say prosecutors overplaying potential conflict of interest in classified documents case

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for Carlos de Oliveira – the Mar-a-Lago property manager charged alongside former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case – said Wednesday that special counsel Jack Smith was overplaying a potential ethical conflict in their representation of their client. “In short, not only is there a lack

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Late-night hosts team up for ‘Strike Force Five’ podcast to benefit their out-of-work staff

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers have teamed up for a new podcast called “Strike Force Five” — named after their personal text chain. It debuted Wednesday on Spotify. Because their respective shows have been dark since the Writers Guild of America went

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