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Month: June 2023

Scholz says right-wing populists won’t gain upper hand in Germany, despite far-right party’s rise

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is insisting that right-wing populism won’t gain the upper hand in his country, days after a far-right party won control of a county administration for the first time since the Nazi era. Alternative for Germany, which has come under scrutiny from security services over its ties to extremists,

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Workers at several Colorado Starbucks locations “strike with pride,” alleging long hours, low wages, banned decorations

By AUSTEN ERBLAT Click here for updates on this story     COLORADO (KCNC) — Workers at some unionized Starbucks locations in Colorado held “unfair labor practice strikes” this week. Copter4 flew over a couple of different locations where those strikes were taking place. Monday, they were on strike in Denver and Boulder. Over the weekend, they

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Russia outlaws critical news outlet as ‘undesirable’ in continued crackdown on dissent

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have declared a news outlet critical of the Kremlin an “undesirable” organization, effectively banning it from operating in Russia as part of a continued crackdown on dissent. Novaya Gazeta Europe is an offshoot of the prominent independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta that was stripped of its media license last

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Extortion threat fueled New Jersey political murder-for-hire plot, prosecutors say

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey political consultant who hired two career criminals to kill a friend and one-time colleague engineered the 2014 slaying because the victim was seeking to extort money from him. That’s according to prosecutors’ sentencing documents made available Wednesday. Former Democratic campaign consultant Sean Caddle

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Man charged in sexual assaults of 4 women after his DNA was pulled from a drinking glass gets indicted on new rape charges

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Matthew Nilo, a Massachusetts man who was charged in the sexual assaults of four women after his DNA was pulled from a drinking glass, was indicted on new rape charges stemming from “sexual attacks” that happened between 2007 and 2008, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a

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