Day: August 30, 2023

Ex-member of Belarus security forces to face trial in Switzerland for disappearances of political opponents

6:11 pm August 30, 2023

A former member of Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is set to face trial in Switzerland next month for the forced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s, according to human rights and victims advocacy groups Wednesday. Activists and opponents called it a “watershed moment” in international justice that could trigger prosecutions […]

UMinn sued, accused of taking insufficient action to prevent data breach

6:08 pm August 30, 2023

A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student and former employee at the University of Minnesota accuses the university of not doing enough to protect personal information from a recent data breach. Attorneys for the two plaintiffs said in the lawsuit filed in federal court Friday that the university “was fully capable of preventing” […]

Woman hiking with dog survives being swept down canyon in flash flood: rescuers

5:14 pm August 30, 2023

A barefoot woman and her dog were rescued from a Utah canyon after flash floods swept the duo at least 150 feet down the gorge, officials said. “The subject reported that she had been caught in the flood and carried ‘150-200 feet’ down the canyon,” the Grand County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team posted on […]

Black DeSantis supporters blast ‘unjust’ media, Biden narrative connecting him to Jacksonville hate crime

5:09 pm August 30, 2023

Supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are pushing back after media outlets and the White House have pushed the suggestion that the governor’s policies are somehow linked to the recent hate crime shooting in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. In the days following a mass shooting at a Jacksonville Dollar General carried out by an alleged White […]

Seattle Police say string of robberies against elderly Asian people not considered hate crimes

4:58 pm August 30, 2023

As detectives in Seattle investigate more than a dozen robberies against mostly elderly Asian members of the community in recent months, police on Tuesday announced these incidents are not being considered hate crimes. “We want to emphasize that we are not considering these hate crimes. We want to make sure that’s very clear,” Seattle Police […]