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NEW YORK (AP) — Four New York City ambulance workers who said they were disciplined for speaking to the media during the harrowing, early months of the COVID-19 pandemic have reached a settlement in their free speech lawsuit against the fire department and the city, their union announced Wednesday. The four emergency medical workers — including paramedic Elizabeth Bonilla, who allowed the Associated Press follow her through the first half […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence agencies say they can’t link adversaries to ‘Havana syndrome’ reported by US personnel around the world. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president lashed out Wednesday at the chief justice of the country’s Supreme Court, accusing her of promoting rulings favorable to criminal suspects. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s comments opened a new debate over the separation of powers in Mexico, at a time when the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the president’s controversial cuts to election agency funding. López Obrador has already attacked independent […]

TEMPE, Greece (AP) — Sudden braking, sparks, an explosion. Survivors of a deadly train crash in Greece said the impact of the collision sent passengers flying though the windows of train cars. Hours later, rescuers used cranes and heavy machinery to sift through the horrific scene of mangled carriages, smoking steel and strewn bodies near the Vale of Tempe, a river valley about 380 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Democrats’ choice in a high-stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race said Wednesday that she would not hear cases brought by the Wisconsin Democratic Party because it has donated $2.5 million to her campaign. However, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz also said she would not recuse herself from cases involving abortion or legislative redistricting, even though groups active on those issues are backing her campaign. Protasiewicz […]

How the World Let Iran Get to 84% Uranium Enrichment  A combination of wishful thinking, greed and complacency has led to the current state of affairs, but the solution is simple and does not involve military strikes by Israel or the United States  By Dr. Iman Foroutan/ The Media Line Bloomberg first reported last week that inspectors in Iran had detected uranium specks enriched up to 84% purity. The United […]

PARIS (AP) — Geo-political activism met tuxedo jackets at Paris Fashion Week as a vocal designer from Ukraine put on a show that paid homage to her country her team of over 20 people working in Kyiv. Here are some highlights of Wednesday’s fall-winter 2023-2024 ready-to-wear collections: UKRAINE’S LITKOVSKA GOES “ON AIR” “From the war zone with peace,” read the ticker outside Paris’ Grand Rex cinema, a model of New […]

Jurors on Wednesday visited the South Carolina estate where prosecutors say disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh shot and killed his wife and son, touring the crime scene before heading back to court to hear closing arguments in the closely watched murder trial. Vans with tinted windows took the jury about 30 minutes from the courthouse in Walterboro to the Murdaugh home called Moselle in the swamps of Colleton County. The judge […]

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Burnt-out Russian tanks seized by Ukrainian forces last year have gone on display in recent days in the capitals of the three Baltics states, where Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are turning out to view them and snap photos in sympathy with the Ukrainians defending their homeland. But among those visiting the tanks are also members of the countries’ sizeable ethnic Russian minorities, some of whom placed […]