https://apnews.com/article/congo-americans-arrested-failed-coup-malanga-b4f4797868fbaed4d772d5c935a86d48
The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-death-gangs-killed-funeral-solino-3f616868b7bef8f7f40f036198e332a3
Victims of gang violence are increasingly left to decay on the street because some areas are too dangerous for people to retrieve the bodies.
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/cuny-academic-workers-austerity-psc
At the City University of New York, academic workers have been fighting for a new union contract for over a year. They are resisting austerity and further corporatization of the university, pushed by politicians and university administrators alike.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-rafah-offensive-us-united-nations-403a7c44b248b828559253206140eae5
The operation faces mounting international condemnation, but American officials describe it, at least for now, as limited and targeted.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-libertarian-convention-rfk-jr-biden-816e3209fdf993c2ba7f6caed0ebcdb7
Donald Trump is addressing the Libertarian National Convention, courting a segment of the conservative electorate that’s often skeptical of the former president’s bombast while trying to ensure attendees aren’t drawn to independent White House hopeful Robert F.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rallies-right-side-broadcasting-maga-election-b8aedd9c94d5a0615edc5faa197674be
Right Side Broadcasting Network has gone from an upstart internet broadcaster to a major player in Donald Trump’s universe, amassing more than 2 million subscribers on its YouTube channel and Rumble.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/morgan-spurlock-filmmaker-super-size-documentary-dies-cancer/story?id=110534964
Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind the award-winning "Super Size Me" documentary, died from cancer complications on Thursday, his family announced on Friday.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/zelenskyy-ukraine-back-control-areas-embattled-kharkiv-region-110557585
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-redistricting-south-carolina-black-voters-864d1609b74ad74980604c26e9bfac52
The Supreme Court has preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that the district discriminated against Black voters.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-killing-court-employee-110485170
Missouri prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Kansas City-area man charged with murder in the killings of a court employee who tried to serve an eviction notice on him and a police officer who responded
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