Columbus, OH

Kenyan police said they have arrested more than 270 people masquerading as protesters who are suspected of going on a criminal rampage during anti-government rallies on Tuesday.  "Security forces across the country singled out suspects found engaging in criminal activities in the guise of protesting, and took them to custody," the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, late Tuesday. 

Kenya police say over 270 arrested for criminal acts during Tuesday protests

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Kenya rights groups decry abductions as government cracks down on protests

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, famous for his heavy-handed crackdown on street gangs, threatened to use similar tactics against price gougers. Since 2022, Bukele has rounded up tens of thousands of suspected street gang members — often on little evidence — and filmed them being frog-marched in their underwear though vast new prisons.

Salvador's president threatens to use gang-crackdown style tactics against price gougers

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Pro-Palestinian protesters breached security at Australia’s Parliament House to unfurl banners from the roof on Thursday as a senator quit the government over its direction on the Gaza war. Tensions over Israel’s war against Hamas dominated Parliament’s final sitting day before a five-week break.

Pro-Palestinian protesters breach security at Australia's Parliament House

Business Insider

Thousands of Chinese migrants trekked last year to the US border after arriving in Ecuador, which is cutting their visa-free access.

The thousands of Chinese migrants headed to the US-Mexico border just lost their key entry point to America

Santa Teresa, NM

DC News Now

A Border Patrol encounter with two migrants in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, has led to the rescue of 13 Central Americans who were beaten, tortured, extorted and sexually assaulted in a house in Juarez, Mexico, U.S. officials say.

Migrants were burned, beaten, raped at cartel stash house, feds say

Latin Times

The Biden administration is taking steps toward offering hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants legal status in the U.S., CBS News reported. The program is targeted at spouses of U.S. citizens who lived in the country for at least ten years, the outlet said, citing four people familiar with the deliberations.

Biden planning to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants who lived in the U.S. at least 10 years

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is going to pay for flights and offer other help to Panama to remove migrants under an agreement signed Monday, as the Central American country’s new president has vowed to shut down the treacherous Darien Gap used by people traveling north to the United States.

US to pay for flights to help Panama remove migrants who may be heading north

ABC News

An armed suspect who was allegedly making threats in Yellowstone National Park is dead following a shootout with rangers, the National Park Service said.

Suspect fatally shot by park rangers at Yellowstone after allegedly making threats

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J. Souza

A fight between passengers marred the final night of a Carnival Cruise Line sailing on June 6th. The incident, which unfolded in the Lido Deck dining room onboard the Carnival Paradise, involved a group of women and resulted in thrown chairs and plates.

Cruise Ship Fight Near Buffet Captured on Camera, Passengers Banned for Life

Mississippi State

Claiborne County, MS

Police in Mississippi said they captured two suspects who managed to escape from jail after a day-and-a-half manhunt.

2 fugitive murder suspects who escaped jail caught following manhunt

Newark, NJ

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Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

UPI News

Joly Germine, the self-anointed king of the 400 Mawozo Haitian gang responsible for the high-profile kidnapping of American missionaries in 2021, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for smuggling U.S. weapons.

Haitian gang leader known for kidnapping Americans for ransom gets 35 years

El Salvador's mega prison is filling up with inmates alleged to be gang members, captured during the country's state of emergency. Officials have confirmed that another 2,000 prisoners were moved to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) on Tuesday. The prison is situated 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of the country's...

Inside El Salvador's horrifying mega prison where thousands of gang members are locked up in squalor

Pennsylvania State

Bucks County Beacon

Backlash to LGBTQ+ progress has increased substantially in Pennsylvania and across the U.S. in recent years. From attacks on LGBTQ inclusion in public schools and threats against drag queen story hours to mounting anti-LGBTQ legislation, right-wing extremists have used disinformation and conspiracies to try to erode the rights and liberties and even safety of queer and trans Americans.

As Anti-LGBTQ Backlash Grows, Advocates Say There Is ‘Hope’ In Action

BUCHAREST, Romania -- A court in Romania’s capital ruled Friday that social media influencer Andrew Tate can leave Romania but must remain within the European Union as he awaits trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision...

Court says social media influencer Andrew Tate can leave Romania but remain in EU as he awaits trial

For 14 years, Jimmy Cherizier wore a badge. Now, toting an automatic rifle through Haiti‘s Capital, Port-au-Prince, he is prepared to lead his coalition of gangs to war. “We are at war,” Cherizier shouted to a crowd of his followers, their identities hidden by ski masks, “any one of us can die.”

Haiti’s gangland nightmare

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican security officials found the bodies of 19 men piled into the back of a truck, the local prosecutor's office said late on Monday, with the victims allegedly linked to a gunfight between a Guatemalan criminal gang and Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel.

In Mexico, 19 bodies found in truck as violence spreads in southern state

Los Angeles, CA

Raejonette Morgan, 22, was shot on Tuesday while in her vehicle in a busy intersection in South Los Angeles and later died of her wounds.

Family of woman shot in vehicle calls for justice, alleging inaction by deputy

The US-Mexico water crisis is highlighting the immense difficulties of navigating how to share shrinking water resources in a hotter, drier world.

A water war is looming between Mexico and the US. Neither side will win

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Kenya's president apologizes for arrogant officials and promises to act against police brutality

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya’s President William Ruto on Friday apologized for the “arrogance and show of opulence” by legislators and ministers from the ruling party and...

Kenya's president apologizes for arrogant officials and promises to act against police brutality

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