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One year after their killing, loved ones pay tribute to duo slain in Amazon rainforest 06/05/2023 06:58pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� A year after the killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest, friends, colleagues and family members gathered Monday in several Brazilian cities to honor their memory and pledge to carry forward their work. Dozens of Guatemala's presidential hopefuls channel heavy-handed tactics of El Salvador's leader 06/05/2023 06:48pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Candidates to be Guatemala���s next president are taking a cue from the leader of neighboring El Salvador and promising their voters they will build mega-prisons and hammer criminal gangs into submission. The formula of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has become well-known Business Highlights: Apple unveils 'Vision Pro' goggles; Pride month corporate sponsors see backlash 06/05/2023 04:24pm • ___ Apple unveils sleek, $3,500 ���Vision Pro��� goggles. Will they be what VR has been looking for? CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) ��� Apple has unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter���s ability to popular Federal judge calls Indiana attorney general's TikTok lawsuit largely 'political posturing' 06/05/2023 03:56pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� The fate of the Indiana attorney general���s lawsuit against the social media company TikTok is uncertain after a federal judge lambasted much of the case as ���political posturing.��� While U.S. District Judge Holly Brady ruled against TikTok's request to move the case to fede Former Vice President Pence files paperwork launching 2024 presidential bid in challenge to Trump 06/05/2023 02:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork on Monday declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Pence fleeing for Scholar, activist Cornel West says he will run for president in 2024 as 3rd-party candidate 06/05/2023 01:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Scholar and progressive activist Cornel West announced Monday he is running for president next year as a third-party candidate, saying he wants to empower people who have been ���pushed to the margins." In a Twitter video, West said he will run as a member of The People's Party. Binance mishandled funds and violated securities laws, according to SEC lawsuit 06/05/2023 01:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao are accused of misusing investor funds, operating as an unregistered exchange and violating a slew of U.S. securities laws in a lawsuit filed by the SEC. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the D Sharing the sentence: Separation takes toll on incarcerated moms and their kids 06/05/2023 12:30pm • LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) ��� Dressed in her Sunday best ��� pink ruffled sleeves and a rainbow tulle tutu ��� Crystal Martinez���s 4-year-old daughter proudly presents her with a multicolored bouquet of carefully crafted tissue paper flowers. With her 5-year-old son nestled on her lap, laughing in delight Pride becomes a minefield for big companies, but many continue their support 06/05/2023 07:49am • Many big companies, including Target and Bud Light's parent, are still backing Pride events in June despite the minefield that the monthlong celebration has become for some of them. Target and Bud Light recently came under fire for their efforts to appeal to the LGBTQ+ community, only to come under More than 2 million people displaced, Burkina Faso's government says, as aid falls short 06/05/2023 02:30am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world's fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data. Figures relea Mexico president's ruling party wins governorship of country's most populous state 06/05/2023 12:37am • NAUCALPAN, Mexico (AP) ��� A quick-count sampling of votes for governor of Mexico's most populous state suggested a victory late Sunday for the candidate from the governing party of President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador, which would end nearly a century of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional R Undercover observers track racism, discrimination at European soccer games 06/05/2023 12:07am • DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) ��� Blend in. Stay alert. Feign excitement if you must. Among the thousands of fans in the stands at Europe's biggest soccer games are a few people operating undercover. Trained volunteer observers listen for racist chants and watch for extremist symbols on banners. ���You China tightens access to Tiananmen Square, 32 detained in Hong Kong on anniversary of 1989 protests 06/04/2023 08:42pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which w Slow start to New York's legal pot market leaves farmers holding the bag 06/04/2023 04:02pm • ARGYLE, N.Y. (AP) ��� Seth Jacobs has about 100 bins packed with marijuana flower sitting in storage at his upstate New York farm. And that���s a problem. There aren���t enough places to sell it. The 700 pounds (318 kilograms) of pungent flower was harvested last year as part of New York's first cr Navalny supporters hold demonstrations to mark Russian opposition leader's 47th birthday 06/04/2023 02:39pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Alexei Navalny voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters defied a crackdown on dissent to hold pickets and demonstrations to mark the imprisoned opposition leader's 47th birthday on Sunday, with at least 90 people reported arrested. Navalny is serving a nine-year se