UNITED NATIONS — UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk faces a vote Friday for a second four-year term but faces opposition from critics and some countries over his criticism of Israel’s attacks on Gaza and his approach to China’s crackdown on its Uyghur minority. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres quietly nominated the Austrian
MADISON, Wisconsin.- The Madison police officer who shot and killed Corey Ruiz on a busy street should face criminal charges, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Friday, after angry protests erupted over videos showing the fight. “Not only did they take him down, not only did they Taser him, not only did they kick him,
OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi. — The family of Nolan Xavier Wells is still searching for answers about what exactly led to the 18-year-old elite athlete’s death during a Fourth of July boat trip with friends on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Although Wells traveled by boat with his friends to Horn Island, he did not return to
An attorney for Nolan Xavier Wells’ family says he will release the results of an independent autopsy into the 18-year-old’s death Wednesday morning. Preliminary findings will be made public during a news conference held at the NAACP’s annual National Convention in Chicago, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family. Wells’ parents
MIAMI– A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcántara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that cheered, sang and raised their phones in the air to take
HOUSTON– A Mexican national shot to death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston had no criminal convictions during his decades living in the United States and was driving a team to a home construction site when he was killed, his family and a Texas congresswoman said Wednesday. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was working