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Netflix’s newest true crime drama, “The Asunta Case,” unpacks a murder that stunned the Spanish public in the early 2010s, when a Chinese-born girl adopted by Spanish parents was found dead on a countryside road in northwestern Spain. The show ends with the parents’ conviction in court. In 2015, a jury in Santiago de Compostela […]

Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and US public broadcaster Voice of America over their coverage of a report accusing its army of mass killings. Broadcasts have been stopped and the websites of both organisations banned for two weeks, officials said. The report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a US-based group, accused the Burkinabè military […]

This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to the authors of a new scathing report on US arms sales to Israel. As Israel’s war on Gaza continues for a seventh month, killing more than 34,000 Palestinians and 200 humanitarian workers, the United States just approved roughly $15bn in military aid to Israel. But is […]

LONDON (AP) — The military horses that bolted and ran loose when spooked by construction noise in central London earlier this week “continue to be cared for and closely observed,” the British Army said Friday. In an update on X, formerly Twitter, the Army gave no fresh information on the condition of the two horses […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. The East African country has seen weeks of heavy rains and severe flooding in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as well as in the country’s […]

This week, the Supreme Court managed to fail to meet the already extremely low expectations most sane people already had for it. First, during the Idaho EMTALA case on whether hospitals receiving federal funding can refuse to provide abortions to women who are actively dying as a result of a pregnancy, we heard debate over […]

Thousands of eager boaters, jet skiers, kayakers and paddleboarders are expected at Boca Bash 2024. Typically, it draws anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 participants on Lake Boca. But make no mistake — the Boca Bash boating party is all about boozing and bikinis. What is Boca Bash? Boaters gather in Lake Boca Raton for the Boca […]

More charges have been filed in a case involving alleged abuse at a western Kentucky boarding school, according to Kentucky State Police. Pilgrim’s Rest School in Ohio County has been under investigation since October 2022 after Social Services investigated allegations of abuse, KSP said. In December an Ohio grand jury indicted Kelly Vanderkooi, 52; Johnathan […]