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US military conducts strike on another suspected drug boat as probe into the first strike begins
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Southern Command announced that it had conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, following a pause of almost three weeks.It is the 22nd strike the U.S. military has carried out against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that the Trump administration claimed were trafficking drugs.
There were four casualties in Thursday’s strike, according to the social media post, bringing the death toll of the campaign to at least 87 people.
In a video that accompanied the... Read More
Ecuador's Otavalo Indigenous people use anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language
JATUN RUMI, Ecuador (AP) — High in the mountains of the Ecuadorian Andes, a group of young Otavalo Indigenous people is using anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language, especially among Otavalo children.They produced an animated short film titled “We’re Aya” that follows the adventures of Aya, a mythical Otavalo warrior, and other characters who interact under the watchful eye of a condor — an iconic bird for Andean Indigenous cultures that symbolizes power and energy.
Inspired by the work of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, the... Read More
Gov. Walz denounces Trump for calling Minnesotaâs Somali community âgarbageâ
ST. PAUL, Minn, (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tim Walz denounced President Donald Trump on Thursday for calling Minnesota’s Somali community “garbage” and dismissing the state as a “hellhole.”Walz said Trump slandered all Minnesotans and that his expressions of contempt for the state's Somali community — the largest in the U.S. — were “unprecedented for a United States president. We’ve got little children going to school today who their president called them garbage.”
Republican legislative leaders stopped short of accepting the governor's invitation to... Read More
NASCAR chairman Jim France accused of stonewalling teams in antitrust case
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The attorney for the two teams suing NASCAR portrayed series chairman Jim France as “a brick wall” in negotiations over the new revenue-sharing model that has triggered the Michael Jordan-backed federal antitrust case against the top form of motorsports in the United States.23XI Racing, owned by Basketball Hall of Famer Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin, and Front Row Motorsports, owned by fast food franchiser Bob Jenkins, were the only two organizations out of 15 that refused to sign extensions on new charter agreements in... Read More
Police recover a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant from the bowels of a man accused of eating it
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's police, who have spent six days monitoring every bowel movement of a man accused of swallowing a James Bond-inspired pendant in a jewelry store, said Friday that they had recovered the allegedly stolen loot.A spokesperson said the 33,000 New Zealand dollar ($19,000) Fabergé pendant was recovered from the man's gastrointestinal tract on Thursday night by natural means. Medical intervention was not required.
The 32-year-old man, who has not been publicly named, has been in police custody since he allegedly ate the ornate... Read More
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