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US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 2 in eastern Pacific

Saturday, April 25 by SRN News

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military said it launched another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early... Read More.

Mississippi will reexamine judicial redistricts after US Supreme Court rules in voting rights case

Saturday, April 25 by SRN News

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday announced he will call a special session for judicial redistricting once the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a Voting Rights Act case that has broad implications for minority representation throughout the country. During oral arguments... Read More.

New York’s new jails boss once served time in a cell block he now oversees

Saturday, April 25 by SRN News

NEW YORK (AP) - Stanley Richards knows how bleak life can be at Rikers Island, New York City's notorious jail complex. As a young man, he spent two years locked up there for robbery. Now, he runs the place as the city's new Department of... Read More.

Despite Iran tensions, King Charles III will follow his mother’s lead in celebrating US-UK bonds

Saturday, April 25 by SRN News

LONDON (AP) - The challenge for King Charles III as he embarks on this week's state visit to the U.S. is, as always, to live up to his mother's example. The late Queen Elizabeth II wowed Congress in 1991 with a speech that celebrated the... Read More.

Philadelphia museum brings Rocky statue inside after decades of tension

Saturday, April 25 by SRN News

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Every day, visitors from around the world make their way to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art - not necessarily for the galleries inside, but for a statue of a fictional boxer from South Philadelphia. The bronze figure of Rocky... Read More.

Jury convicts New York man for 1993 killing following third trial in the case

Friday, April 24 by SRN News

A jury on Friday convicted a man in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo, ending his third trial after a legal odyssey that has stretched on for decades. Brian Scott Lorenz, 56, was originally convicted in 1994, along with another man, James Pugh,... Read More.

Podcast helps Louisiana State Police arrest 4 suspects in decades-old murder of teenage girl

Friday, April 24 by SRN News

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana police say a podcast helped them solve the decades-old killing of a 16-year-old girl and announced Friday that four men now face criminal charges in connection with her rape and murder. In 1982, teenager Roxanne Sharp was killed in... Read More.

AP photographer Jack Thornell’s iconic images of civil rights and beyond

Friday, April 24 by SRN News

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell 's Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Civil Rights Movement. Thornell died Thursday at a hospital in the New... Read More.

Miss Indian World pageant winners mark the end of a decades-long tradition

Friday, April 24 by SRN News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Codi High Elk was a shy teenager most comfortable caring for horses on her family's ranch on the Cheyenne River Reservation when she threw away an application to compete in a new pageant for Indigenous women - an application her... Read More.

US appeals court allows Texas to enforce migrant arrest law

Friday, April 24 by SRN News

By Nate Raymond April 24 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Texas authorities to enforce a Republican-backed state law that would let them arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. A 10-7 panel of the New... Read More.

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US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 2 in eastern Pacific

Mississippi will reexamine judicial redistricts after US Supreme Court rules in voting rights case

New York’s new jails boss once served time in a cell block he now oversees

Despite Iran tensions, King Charles III will follow his mother’s lead in celebrating US-UK bonds

Philadelphia museum brings Rocky statue inside after decades of tension

Jury convicts New York man for 1993 killing following third trial in the case

Podcast helps Louisiana State Police arrest 4 suspects in decades-old murder of teenage girl

AP photographer Jack Thornell’s iconic images of civil rights and beyond

Miss Indian World pageant winners mark the end of a decades-long tradition

US appeals court allows Texas to enforce migrant arrest law

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