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El Paso shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes

By Mike Balsamo, Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press

An indictment unsealed Thursday charges Patrick Crusius with 90 counts under federal hate crime and firearms laws.

Man called largest child porn ‘facilitator’ by the FBI pleads guilty

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

A man once described by an FBI agent as the world's largest "facilitator" of child pornography websites pleaded guilty to operating a web hosting service that allowed users to access hundreds of thousands of images and videos.

YouTube, Venmo demand AI firm stop taking facial data from sites

By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press

The companies have been sending cease-and-desist letters to New York-based Clearview AI, which works with law enforcement agencies.

Kirk Douglas, longtime influential movie star, dies at 103

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Kirk Douglas, the muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films and helped fatally weaken the Hollywood blacklist, has died at 103, People magazine reported.

California governor pardons gay civil rights leader in new initiative

By Don Thompson, Associated Press

Rustin was a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizer of the March on Washington in 1963.

FBI director warns of ongoing Russian ‘information warfare’

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

FBI Director Chris Wray says Russia is engaged in "information warfare" heading into the 2020 presidential election. But he says law enforcement hasn't seen ongoing efforts by Russia to interfere in America's election infrastructure.

Former evangelical missionary to lead Brazil’s isolated indigenous unit

By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

In recent interviews, Dias said he would not seek to evangelize indigenous groups. But activists have expressed concern that he would try to do that, just as he did during his years with the New Tribes nonprofit group.

‘King tides’ documented globally show risks of climate change

By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press

Volunteers from New Zealand to the United States are helping scientists document what will happen to coastal communities as climate change melts the polar ice caps and sea levels rise.

Judge strips terrorist of U.S. citizenship at government request

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press

Judge Staci Yandle ruled last week that the government produced clear and unequivocal evidence that Faris obtained his naturalization illegally. Faris' attorney said the ruling could set a dangerous precedent for all citizens.

At least 138 deported to El Salvador were later killed, human rights group says

By Ben Fox, Associated Press

The group says a majority of those deportees were killed within a year and some within days of returning to a country with the highest homicide rate in the Western Hemisphere.