BRAZIL
Shots fired at two buses
Gunshots on Tuesday hit two buses in a caravan for former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s campaign tour, Worker’s Party officials said. No one was hurt. Lula was not in either of the two buses, which were carrying guests and journalists, spokesman Jose Crispiniano said. Lula has been traveling to rally support for another presidential run in October, but the former president has been convicted of corruption, and it looks increasingly likely that he is to be jailed and barred from contesting the election. “If they think that that they can do away with my will to fight, they are wrong,” Lula said at a rally on Tuesday night.
UNITED STATES
Trump eyes wall budget
President Donald Trump has raised the idea of using the Pentagon budget to pay for the US-Mexico border wall he has vowed to build. However, departments have limited authority to reprogram funds without congressional approval. Pentagon spokesman Chris Sherwood referred questions on the wall to the White House, where spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was “not going to get into the specifics of that.”
UNITED STATES
Zuckerberg set to testify
Published reports say Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is planning to testify before Congress about how his company collects and uses people’s data. Citing unnamed sources, CNN said in a report on Tuesday that Zuckerberg has “come to terms” with the fact that he will have to testify in a matter of weeks. A Facebook representative said the company has received invitations to appear before Congress and is talking to lawmakers, but would not confirm Zuckerberg’s attendance. Zuckerberg said last week in a CNN interview that he would be “happy to” testify if he was the right person to do it. The company is facing unprecedented scrutiny following reports that a data-mining firm used ill-gotten data from tens of millions of its users to try to influence elections.
UNITED STATES
Princess tweet deleted
A Pennsylvania branch of Planned Parenthood says a tweet declaring the need for a Disney princess who has had an abortion was not appropriate and the organization has taken it down. An executive for Planned Parenthood Keystone said the group believes pop culture plays a “critical role” in educating the public, but Melissa Reed, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Keystone, said the seriousness of the point they were trying to make was not appropriate for the subject matter. The tweet read: “We need a Disney princess who’s had an abortion. We need a Disney princess who’s pro-choice. We need a Disney princess who’s an undocumented immigrant. We need a Disney princess who’s actually a union worker. We need a Disney princess who’s tran.”
UNITED STATES
Pot paradise plans on hold
Plans to turn the old California ghost town of Nipton into a marijuana paradise are on the back burner for now, although visitors to the area an hour outside Las Vegas are still encouraged to toke up privately. David Gwyther, president of American Green, which bought Nipton last year, on Tuesday said getting the myriad of approvals needed to turn it into a marijuana-themed resort could take some time. In the meantime he said plans are proceeding to renovate the town. Nipton recently got licenses to sell liquor and lottery tickets. It is also building a swimming hole and improving its small hotel.
In months, Lo Yuet-ping would bid farewell to a centuries-old village he has called home in Hong Kong for more than seven decades. The Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon is filled with small houses built from metal sheets and stones, as well as old granite buildings, contrasting sharply with the high-rise structures that dominate much of the Asian financial hub. Lo, 72, has spent his entire life here and is among an estimated 860 households required to move under a government redevelopment plan. He said he would miss the rich history, unique culture and warm interpersonal kindness that defined life in
AERIAL INCURSIONS: The incidents are a reminder that Russia’s aggressive actions go beyond Ukraine’s borders, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said Two NATO members on Sunday said that Russian drones violated their airspace, as one reportedly flew into Romania during nighttime attacks on neighboring Ukraine, while another crashed in eastern Latvia the previous day. A drone entered Romanian territory early on Sunday as Moscow struck “civilian targets and port infrastructure” across the Danube in Ukraine, the Romanian Ministry of National Defense said. It added that Bucharest had deployed F-16 warplanes to monitor its airspace and issued text alerts to residents of two eastern regions. It also said investigations were underway of a potential “impact zone” in an uninhabited area along the Romanian-Ukrainian border. There
A French woman whose husband has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged on Thursday told his trial that police had saved her life by uncovering the crimes. “The police saved my life by investigating Mister Pelicot’s computer,” Gisele Pelicot told the court in the southern city of Avignon, referring to her husband — one of 51 of her alleged abusers on trial — by only his surname. Speaking for the first time since the extraordinary trial began on Monday, Gisele Pelicot, now 71, revealed her emotion in almost 90 minutes of testimony, recounting her mysterious
The governor of Ohio is to send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Tuesday said that he does not oppose the Temporary Protected Status program under which about 15,000 Haitians have arrived in the city of about 59,000 people since 2020, but said the federal government must do more to help affected communities. On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost directed his office to research legal avenues — including filing a lawsuit — to stop the federal government from sending
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