Peru’s top court on Tuesday ordered the release of former President Alberto Fujimori from prison, where he is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, defying an international court’s order that the South American country is holding him behind bars. bars. The court, the Constitutional Tribunal of Peru, voted 3 to 1 to reaffirm…
A day after the White House warned that the United States would soon run out of money to send weapons to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky will make a direct appeal to senators on Tuesday to remind representatives what is at stake if they don’t quickly approve the emergency. military aid to his nation. Republican support…
Tyler Goodson, a key figure in the popular podcast series “S-Town,” died Sunday after being shot during a standoff with police at a home in Woodstock, Ala., southwest of Birmingham, authorities said Monday. Police responded to a call after midnight Sunday at a home in Woodstock, where they discovered that Mr. Goodson had barricaded himself…
The Supreme Court justices seemed divided on Monday over a fiercely contested bankruptcy settlement for Purdue Pharma that would funnel billions of dollars into addressing the opioid epidemic in exchange for shielding members of the wealthy Sackler family from related civil lawsuits. The U.S. Trustee Program, an office in the Justice Department, had challenged the…
Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, the wealthy former software executive who entered the presidential campaign in June hoping a back-to-basics appeal on the economy would propel him forward, dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination on Monday. Though his personal fortune could have kept his campaign afloat, Mr. Burgum’s mild demeanor and…
The bodies of 11 hikers were found on the slopes of Mount Marapi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a volcanic eruption sent ash plumes cascading down the mountain on Sunday, the local search and rescue agency said on Monday. Dozens of climbers were on the active volcano in West Sumatra Province when it…
For years, Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, had been entangled in lawsuits seeking to hold it to account for its role in the spiraling opioid crisis. A pathbreaking settlement reached last year appeared to signal the end to thousands of those cases, funneling billions of dollars toward fighting the epidemic in…
Four family members, including two children, were stabbed to death at a home in Queens early Sunday morning, the police said. The suspect also started a fire at the house and then stabbed two police officers who arrived at the scene before being shot dead by one of them, according to New York Police Department…
I was sitting in my apartment in Beirut on the evening of Oct. 13 when I read that journalists had been struck by a missile attack in southern Lebanon. My close friend, Issam Abdallah, was working in the area as a cameraman for Reuters to cover the border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah after the…
Authorities have identified and arrested a suspect in connection with the killings of three homeless men in Los Angeles this week and tied the suspect to a fourth homicide nearby, officials said on Saturday afternoon. The suspect, identified as Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, a resident of Los Angeles, was already in custody after being arrested…