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He fought to save jungles in Honduras. Now his killing haunts environmental defenders
3 days, 5 hours ago

He fought to save jungles in Honduras. Now his killing haunts environmental defenders

Associated Press  

TOCOA, Honduras — Seven bullets pounded into Juan López outside a small white church on a sunny September afternoon. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Two months after López’s killing, a pall hangs over the home where he and his wife, Thelma Peña, raised their daughters. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook …

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Ex-White House official points to Trump's under-the-radar 'veiled threat' to GOP rivals
1 week, 2 days ago

Ex-White House official points to Trump's under-the-radar 'veiled threat' to GOP rivals

Raw Story  

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Julián Castro, who served in President Barack Obama's administration, claimed the press missed the one of the reasons Donald Trump's camp floated Gov. Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for embattled secretary of defense nominee Pete Hegseth. At his lowest point, the ex-Fox News personality Pete Hegseth appeared to be hours away from …

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CrossFit Games announce changes to safety measures after Lazar Ðukić's drowning
1 month ago

CrossFit Games announce changes to safety measures after Lazar Ðukić's drowning

ABC  

CrossFit has announced its plans to allay safety concerns after the drowning death of competitor Lazar Ðukić, but the announcement has been met with scepticism by a number of athletes. Loading Instagram content CrossFit said it would not publish the full report due to "privacy and legal considerations", but released a summary of some of the actions set to be …

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Trump’s ‘lazy’ $99 coffee table book includes 10 pages of him with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un
3 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s ‘lazy’ $99 coffee table book includes 10 pages of him with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

The Independent  

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Catholic leaders raise concerns over judicial reform pushed by Mexico’s president
3 months, 1 week ago

Catholic leaders raise concerns over judicial reform pushed by Mexico’s president

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Catholic leaders said Monday that the judicial reform pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador might not necessarily bring justice for victims of the crime wave that is rampant across the country. “May they contemplate the benefit of the nation beyond unnecessary partisanship, so we can move towards a comprehensive reform that includes prosecutors’ offices, local …

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Harris’ past debates: A prosecutor’s style with narrative flair but risks in a matchup with Trump
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Harris’ past debates: A prosecutor’s style with narrative flair but risks in a matchup with Trump

Associated Press  

▶ Follow the AP’s live coverage and analysis as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet for their first debate. “She can meet the moment,” said Marc Short, who led Republican Vice President Mike Pence’s debate preparation against Harris in the fall of 2020. “She’s found a very good balance.” FILE - Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, and …

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Rep. Joaquin Castro says ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ should be added to the National Film Registry
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Rep. Joaquin Castro says ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ should be added to the National Film Registry

LA Times  

As part of his work to champion Latino inclusion in Hollywood, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro has recommended that the crime dramas “ Blood In Blood Out ” and “American Me” be entered into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry for 2024. “Both movies were able to show the humanity in the Latino community, even within very flawed characters,” Castro …

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Trump reignites conspiracy theories about Justin Trudeau and his mom Margaret, claims Canada ‘very unhappy’ about…
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump reignites conspiracy theories about Justin Trudeau and his mom Margaret, claims Canada ‘very unhappy’ about…

Hindustan Times  

Donald Trump reignited the baseless conspiracy theory about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during an interview with an internet personality, stating that he “could be” the son of former Cuban president Fidel Castro. Donald Trump claimed that he gets along with Trudeau “very well”, but added that “he seems to be going very progressive and the people of Canada are …

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My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump
4 months, 2 weeks ago

My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump

The Independent  

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Remembering the ‘Stronismo’: How ghost of a brutal dictator haunts Paraguay
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Remembering the ‘Stronismo’: How ghost of a brutal dictator haunts Paraguay

Al Jazeera  

Seventy years since General Alfredo Stroessner seized power in the small Latin American country, memories of his bloody legacy and the massacre it triggered in 2012 live on. To the women, men, children and elders who had claimed access to Marina Kue, this was “Farm No 53”, a property incorporated within Stroessner’s controversial land distribution programme and agricultural colonisation scheme …

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Honduras plans to build a 20,000-capacity ‘megaprison’ for gang members as part of a crackdown
6 months, 1 week ago

Honduras plans to build a 20,000-capacity ‘megaprison’ for gang members as part of a crackdown

Associated Press  

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity “megaprison,” part of the government’s larger crackdown on gang violence and efforts to overhaul its long-troubled prison system. President Xiomara Castro unveiled a series of emergency measures in a nationally televised address early Saturday, including plans to strengthen the military’s role in fighting organized crime, …

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Honduras to build 20,000-inmate ‘megaprison’ as part of gang crackdown
6 months, 1 week ago

Honduras to build 20,000-inmate ‘megaprison’ as part of gang crackdown

Al Jazeera  

President Xiomara Castro says new measures including ‘terrorist’ designations for gang members are in response to public complaints about rising violence. In a late-night televised address to the nation, President Xiomara Castro said on Friday the “plan of solutions against crime” was in response to a “security emergency” and public complaints about increasing violence. Flanked by members of Honduras’s National …

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'Grotesque' Marco Rubio trashed over his 'absurd' response to Trump conviction
6 months, 3 weeks ago

'Grotesque' Marco Rubio trashed over his 'absurd' response to Trump conviction

Raw Story  

The entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," piled on Sen. Marco Rubio on Friday morning for rushing to Donald Trump's defense after the former president was convicted of 34 felonies in a Manhattan courtroom. After MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin called out Sen. Ted Cruz for his "grotesque" comments about the jury's decision — adding that Republicans were engaging in …

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Why has America tolerated 6 illegitimate Republican presidents?
8 months, 1 week ago

Why has America tolerated 6 illegitimate Republican presidents?

Raw Story  

As we watch the Trump campaign prepare to replace 50,000 civil servants with fascist toadies if he wins the White House, it’s important to remember that Dwight Eisenhower was the last Republican president who believed in democracy, the rule of law, and that government should prioritize what the people want. Instead, Nixon publicly announced that LBJ’s efforts were “in shambles.” …

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LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps
8 months, 3 weeks ago

LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps

New Indian Express  

The Catholic Church, in its doctrine, still rejects same-sex marriage and condemns any sexual relations between gay or lesbian partners as “intrinsically disordered.” Yet Pope Francis has done far more than any previous pope to make the church a more welcoming place for LGBTQ+ people. He celebrated, tweeting: “Love is now the law.” For years, the movement for LGBTQ+ rights …

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Sevilla president Del Nido Carrasco: ‘I had to choose between my club and my father’
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Sevilla president Del Nido Carrasco: ‘I had to choose between my club and my father’

New York Times  

“I took in Sevilla with my mother’s milk,” says Sevilla’s new club president Jose Maria del Nido Carrasco. “We believed 777’s plan was to issue new club shares to prepare the sale of the club to another foreign fund,” Del Nido Carrasco says. “It’s not a war of Javier Tebas against Real Madrid, it’s all La Liga clubs except two …

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2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington
10 months, 1 week ago

2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

Wired  

From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, also excerpted exclusively in WIRED. 18:46 April 15, 2054 Arlington National Cemetery That night in her apartment Julia Hunt ordered in sushi and watched the coverage of Slake’s botched press conference on her living room sofa. They read whole sections aloud, describing the …

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Ex-Green Beret stands with Venezuelan coup plotter ahead of U.S. sentencing on terror charges
11 months, 1 week ago

Ex-Green Beret stands with Venezuelan coup plotter ahead of U.S. sentencing on terror charges

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela’s president is proudly standing with a former Venezuelan army general who pleaded guilty in New York on terrorism charges, describing his would-be comrade-in-arms as a patriot and dedicated family man worthy of a reduced prison sentence. Former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau had stayed mostly silent since a ragtag cadre of …

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Sexual misconduct scandals rocked this California university system. Top leaders escaped scrutiny
1 year ago

Sexual misconduct scandals rocked this California university system. Top leaders escaped scrutiny

LA Times  

The California State University Board of Trustees failed to prevent a sexual misconduct crisis at the 23-campus system they oversee. State Assemblymember Akilah Weber said that no trustee “has been holding the chancellor or the individual campuses accountable.” “It’s very clear that what we cannot do is take them at their word,” said Weber, who attended a recent legislative hearing …

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The state of exception in Honduras is endangering innocent lives
1 year ago

The state of exception in Honduras is endangering innocent lives

Al Jazeera  

When Honduran President Xiomara Castro was elected in November 2021 after running on an anticorruption platform and promising to tackle the country’s disastrous human rights record and sky-high homicide and extortion rates, hopes ran high. In December 2022, less than a year after taking office as Honduras’s first woman president, Castro declared a state of exception covering parts of the …

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Unpack the past: Mandela, the keffiyeh and South Africa’s Palestine embrace
1 year ago

Unpack the past: Mandela, the keffiyeh and South Africa’s Palestine embrace

Al Jazeera  

Ten years after the anti-apartheid icon passed away, his embrace with Yasser Arafat and his donning of the keffiyeh remain powerful symbols of South Africa’s special warmth towards Palestine. To go to the white man’s court as an African, wearing my own outfit and not the one that is desired by court.” In 1995, a year after becoming the first …

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‘We will cut out your tongue’: Filipino activists recount kidnap ordeal
1 year, 2 months ago

‘We will cut out your tongue’: Filipino activists recount kidnap ordeal

Al Jazeera  

Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano say they were taken from the street by the military and subjected to abusive interrogations. Most of the time, the victims “don’t surface, or they parrot the narrative forced upon them by the state”, said Dino de Leon, the lawyer for Tamano and Castro. One told Tamano: “We will cut out your tongue if you …

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Both parties want to win South Florida. Here’s one Cuban activist’s view of the political fight
1 year, 2 months ago

Both parties want to win South Florida. Here’s one Cuban activist’s view of the political fight

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. He was soon drawn to President Donald Trump for his aggressive approach toward Cuba’s communist government and his stated affinity for Cuban American culture. I do not defend political or partisan interests.” His story illustrates how both Republicans and Democrats are perceived by South Florida’s powerful bloc of Cuban American …

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Disappearances ‘speak to dangers’ of environmental activism in Philippines
1 year, 3 months ago

Disappearances ‘speak to dangers’ of environmental activism in Philippines

Al Jazeera  

Some 15 activists and community organisers have gone missing since Ferdinand Marcos Jr took power, including two who were abducted last week. The disappearances of Tamano and Castro “speak to the dangers” faced by environmental advocates, said Rachel Cox, campaign lead for Global Witness. “If you challenge the status quo, you can be undermined and attacked, seemingly with impunity.” Land …

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