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Authorities say more than 100 people in India were killed in a stampede when a crowd at a religious gathering rushed to leave a makeshift tent. It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic following an event with Hindu figure Bhole Baba in northern India’s state of Uttar Pradesh. Local news reports cited authorities who said heat and suffocation in the tent could have been a factor. Video of the aftermath showed the structure appeared to have collapsed. Police said at least 116 people died, most of them women and children. Читать дальше...

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At least 105 people have died in a stampede following a religious gathering in northern India, officials say.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been denied parole after spending most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota. The U.S. Parole Commission says Tuesday that he won’t be eligible for another parole hearing until June 2026. His attorney argued that Peltier was wrongly convicted and said that the health of the 79-year-old was failing. The FBI and its current and former agents dispute the claims of innocence. Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement... Читать дальше...

French prosecutors have asked the country's highest court to rule on the validity of the international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad over complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war. A statement from the prosecutors on Tuesday says that Assad has absolute immunity as a serving head of state. Judges at an appeals court last week ruled against their argument and said the warrant issued by France in November for Assad is valid and remains in place. Lawyers for the Syrian victims have criticized the prosecutors' appeal... Читать дальше...

Rudolph Giuliani has been disbarred in New York. The former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump received the decision Tuesday from an appeals court in Manhattan. The court ruled Giuliani repeatedly made false statements about the Republican Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Giuliani had already had his New York law license suspended for false statements he made after the election. Giuliani was the primary mouthpiece for Trump’s false claims of election fraud after the 2020 vote. Читать дальше...

A former small-town Iowa police chief has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for lying to authorities to acquire machine guns that prosecutors say he sold for his own profit. Former Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt was convicted in February of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements to the agency and illegal possession of a machine gun. KCCI-TV reports that he was sentenced Monday. Authorities say Wendt bought machine guns for the police department... Читать дальше...

Commission denies parole for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing FBI agents in 1975.

Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence. Not everyone is OK with that, and some longtime users are trying to delete their past contributions or rewriting them into gibberish, but the protests haven’t had much effect. It’s one of a number of issues social media platforms are grappling with as they try to adapt to the changes brought by generative AI.

The Supreme Court has sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights. The justices on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge to an Illinois assault weapons ban and sent other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden. The moves come after the justices upheld a gun law intended to protect victims of domestic violence last month. That was the first guns rights case following their landmark ruling two years ago expanding gun rights. Challenges to gun... Читать дальше...

Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly made false statements about Trump's 2020 election loss.

A new survey by Pew Research Center finds public support for NATO in some of the countries belonging to the Western military alliance. The survey was released Tuesday. It questions adults in 13 of the 32 countries that belong to NATO. In those nations, about 6 in 10 people say they back NATO. That ranges from more than 9 out of every 10 adults in Poland, to fewer than 4 out of every 10 adults in Greece. The survey comes ahead of a NATO summit next week in Washington and at a challenging time for the alliance.

A woman accused of crisscrossing the U.S. claiming to be an Irish heiress and scamming several victims out of tens of thousands of dollars has been extradited to the United Kingdom. A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday confirmed the extradition of Marianne Smyth, and referred questions to law enforcement officials in Northern Ireland. The American faces allegations that she stole more than $170,000 from the victims from 2008 to 2010 in Northern Ireland. She drew comparisons to Anna Sorokin... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Interior Department has approved the proposed Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm in New Jersey. Tuesday's approval gives a major boost to a project that would be the state’s first. The project still requires an additional federal approval of its construction and operations plan and two state-level permits before construction can begin. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says this is the ninth offshore wind project approved under the Biden administration. Atlantic Shores would be built between... Читать дальше...

Tesla’s global sales fell for the second straight quarter despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, another sign of weaking demand for the company’s products and electric vehicles overall.The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it sold 436,956 vehicles from April through June, down 4.8% from 466,140 sold the same period a year ago. But the sales were better than the 436,000 that analysts had expected.Demand for EVs worldwide is slowing, but still growing for most automakers. Tesla... Читать дальше...

A type of bankruptcy protection filing that made it easier for small businesses to seek relief has expired, which will complicate filing for small businesses with more than $3 million in debt. The filing type, known as Subchapter V, is cheaper and less time-consuming than the traditional Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The rule went into effect and let small businesses with less than $2.75 million in debt file under the subchapter. That debt limit was extended to $7.5 million in March 2020. A bill to make the debt limit permanent failed... Читать дальше...

Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll. His 1946 song “That’s All Right” would become the first single Elvis Presley ever released. And yet Crudup spent his later years working on farms on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. He received scant songwriting royalties because of an exploitative record contract. He died in 1974. The 70th anniversary of Presley’s recording of ”That’s All Right” is Friday. And while Presley’s version is considered a cultural milestone, Crudup has received some recognition in recent years. Читать дальше...

Dozens of members from Pakistan’s civil society have rallied in the southern port city of Karachi against the death sentence handed down to a Christian man on blasphemy charges, nearly a year after one of the worst mob attacks in the country on Christians. Several Christians also joined Tuesday's rally which comes a day after a court in the Punjab province announced the death sentence to Ehsan Shan after finding him guilty of sharing “hateful content” against Muslims on social media. Under the country’s blasphemy laws... Читать дальше...

Tesla delivered 443,956 vehicles during the second quarter, a 4.8% decline from last year, but better than expected.

Intelligence officials in Norway says that a Norwegian citizen has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to spy for China. The country’s domestic security agency said that the unidentified person was arrested Monday. The suspect will face a court hearing later Tuesday in Oslo. The agency, known by the initials PST, said only that it was "a matter of national security” and that the suspect was arrested as he arrived in Norway from China on Monday. In its annual threat assessment published in February... Читать дальше...

Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll. His 1946 song “That’s All Right" would become the first single Elvis Presley ever released. And yet Crudup spent his later years working on farms on Virginia's Eastern Shore. He received scant songwriting royalties because of an exploitative record contract. He died in 1974. The 70th anniversary of Presley’s recording of ”That’s All Right” is Friday. And while Presley's version is considered a cultural milestone, Crudup has received some recognition in recent years. Читать дальше...

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Two foreign aid workers have been killed in eastern Congo when their convoy was attacked. Aid group Tearfund made the annoucement in a statement late Monday. The killings on Sunday are the latest in a series of violent attacks targeting aid groups and residents in the region. The violence in the province has worsened in recent weeks as security forces battle more than 120 armed groups. The M23 rebel group has been the most active in the region.

Global stocks are mostly lower after benchmarks ended higher on Wall Street. The Japanese yen fell to near a fresh 38-year low. Oil prices were higher and U.S. futures declined. On Monday, the S&P 500 rose 0.3% even as most of the stocks in the index fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.8%. Investors are weighing odds that Donald Trump's hopes for winning November's election have risen after last week's presidential debate and after Monday's Supreme... Читать дальше...

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