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Tourist shot to death in popular Mexican resort town
days after another tourist killed in machete attack

A Canadian tourist has been shot and killed in a Mexican beach town just days after a tourist from Argentina was hacked to death in a machete attack in the same Pacific coast resort area.

Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Oaxaca say the Canadian man was found dead in a car with a bullet wound in the town of Puerto Escondido, a relaxed beach town popular with surfers, on Monday.

No details were revealed regarding the specific circumstances of the man’s death, but he was identified as 27-year-old Víctor Masson.

Masson’s death comes three days after a tourist from Argentina was killed in a machete attack in the state of Oaxaca, generally considered one of the safer states in Mexico, roughly 60 miles west of Puerto Escondido in the hamlet of La Isla.

Chicago-area man whose life sentence was commuted by Obama
charged with attempted murder

A Chicago-area man who had his life sentence in prison commuted by then-President Barack Obama in 2015, faces more prison time after being charged with attempted murder in connection with a freeway shooting.

Alton Mills, 54, faces three counts of attempted murder after someone in a vehicle shot at another car on Interstate 57 on Sunday, the Illinois State Police said.

Investigators said troopers responded to the scene and found a victim struck by gunfire in the back seat who was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Mills was arrested Tuesday.

Mills was serving a life sentence when Obama commuted the prison term as part of a clemency initiative for non-violent, low-level offenders arrested during the height of the war on drugs. Mills was arrested in 1993 on federal drug charges. The felony conviction was his third strike, resulting in a life sentence.

He was released in 2016 after serving 22 years in prison. He worked as a mechanic for the Chicago Transit Authority.

After receiving clemency, Mills spoke to the U.S. Senate as part of a criminal justice forum while campaigning for the elimination of mandatory minimum sentencing.

 This event pretty much proves the dire need for imposing real and long sentences to criminals instead of commuting them just because you like the guys.

Attorney for NYC hospital worker slams media
after viral bike dispute:
'Without question' she's been 'defamed'

"Around that time these individuals were claiming that that was their bike. Someone pushed the bike while she was on it, back into the docking station so it locked again," he said.

Comrie claimed she had paid for that specific bike but after the argument put it back in the docking station and rented another one. Marino said he had two receipts that proved his client was telling the truth, with serial numbers that matched the bicycles in question.

He said Comrie sought an attorney because she was fearful she would lose her job over the encounter. After the video went viral and Comrie faced online accusations of racism, Bellevue Hospital put her on administrative leave pending a review of the situation.

First of all, the system doesn't seem to allow the rental of a single bike twice or multiple times at all.
Second, there was no evidence that sustained the black guys' claim that they had rented the bike already. So calling her racist for something that she was clearly allowed to do is a stupid accusation from the very beginning. Plus,  why did they have to argue with a pregnant woman in the first place!?
That's abusive for sure!
The hospital's decision is totally unfair and the  media are responsible for this mess!

Iran defies US over executions
putting three democracy protesters to death

The Islamic Republic of Iran continued its killing spree of protesters seeking to create a democracy despite a plea on Friday from the Biden administration to "not carry out these executions."

The Iranian-regime controlled Mizan News Agency, which is affiliated with the country’s opaque judiciary, reported that Saleh Mirehashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaqoubi were executed on May 19 in a prison the city of Isfahan.

The Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said that there had been at least 90 executions in the last 18 days, marking May as the "bloodiest month" in the nation over the last five years.

"What we’re witnessing in Iran are not executions, but extrajudicial mass killings to create societal fear to maintain power," Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said.
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Iran’s regime charged the three men with "waging war against God," a crime that is frequently applied against political activists and dissidents.

During the alleged forced confessions of the men on Iran state television, the men rejected the charge of murder.

US walks back claim it killed major al Qaeda leader in drone strike

U.S. military officials are walking back a claim that a senior al Qaeda leader was killed in a recent drone strike in Syria, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.

The story was first reported by the Washington Post.

The family of 56-year-old Lotfi Hassan Misto identified him as the person killed by the American missile on May 3, according to the Post.

U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, oversaw the operation and released a statement on the day of the strike saying it conducted a strike "targeting a senior Al Qaeda leader."

No other details were provided and the identify of the person killed was not revealed.

Misto's family claims he had no ties to terrorist organizations and was tending to his sheep when he was killed.

Man who rammed car through Vatican gate sent to psych ward

The man who drove through a Vatican City gate and kept going even after guards fired at his car was taken Friday to a nearby hospital for psychiatric care after a preliminary interrogation, the Vatican said.

The man, who has not been identified by the Holy See, was taken to the Santo Spirito in Sassia psychiatric ward after spending the night in the Vatican police barracks.

...the man rushed the Santa Anna gate sometime after 8 p.m. Thursday, after the Swiss Guards initially refused him entry. He kept accelerating after Vatican gendarmes at an interior checkpoint fired at his tires, and ultimately stopped inside one of the courtyards of the Apostolic Palace. There, Vatican gendarmes arrested him, the Holy See statement said, adding that at the time he seemed in an agitated psychological state.

In an update Friday, the Vatican said the man, who was believed to be in his 40s, was interrogated by a Vatican magistrate in the presence of a lawyer. Given his condition, "he was taken to the psychiatric ward ... for obligatory treatment," the statement said.