Truecaller Launched US and Canada Call Recording, Providing Professionals with Immediate, AI-powered Transcriptions
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Rapaport Press Release: Rapaport Begins 3 Day Fast to Protest
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 9, 2023--Martin Rapaport will be fasting for three days, November 7-9, to protest World Diamond Council support for the Kimberley Process which is certifying as legitimate blood diamonds and Russian diamonds subject to US sanctions.Rapaport’s fast coincides ...
Justice Department opens probe of police in small Mississippi city over alleged civil rights abuses
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation Wednesday into alleged civil rights violations by police in a majority Black Mississippi city, stepping in following accusations that officers used excessive force and arrested people without justification.The federal ...
Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas.“I'm kind of persona non grata around here,” said Baker, who had headed the ...
House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her Israel-Hamas rhetoric in a stunning rebuke
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted late Tuesday to censure Democratic Rep. <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/rashida-tlaib">Rashida Tlaib</a> of Michigan — the only Palestinian American in Congress — an extraordinary rebuke of her rhetoric about the <a ...
North Korea threatens to respond to anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets with a ‘shower of shells’
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea criticized rival South Korea on Wednesday for removing a law that banned private activists from sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to the North, insisting that such activities amount to psychological warfare and threatening to respond with a ...