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Police in the Brazilian Amazon found two bodies while searching for them British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous activist Bruno Pereira.
Regional police chief Eduardo Fontes said one of the two men arrested in connection with the couple’s disappearance had confessed to killing them and led officers to the burial site.
The announcement appears to be approaching the 10-day search tragedy following the pair’s disappearance on June 5th. The couple’s disappearance has highlighted the growing dangers faced by Brazilian environmentalists and indigenous communities under President Jair Bolsonaro.
Third hearing will show Trump pressures Pence to cancel the election
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol will focus on its third session How Donald Trump pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence To refuse to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the elections.
The committee will study the origins of Trump’s pressure campaign against Pence, and determine how Pence rejected the former president’s plan. Despite being told at length that the scheme is illegal, Trump has ignored his top White House advisers to follow the course of action, he argues.
The panel will show how Trump’s false public statements about Pence’s power to deny Biden the vote count put his life in danger as the mob shouted “Hang Mike Pence.”
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what is the The so-called penny strategy You mean for Trump? Share it make it responsible for crimes for obstructing official action and conspiring to defraud the United States, the commission argues.
Two American volunteers in Ukraine fear Russia will imprison them
two American volunteers went missing in Ukraine It is feared that Russia has captured them, officials and family members said.
Alexander Drake, 39, and Andy Tay Ngoc Huen, 27, are American veterans from Alabama who traveled to Ukraine to aid the Ukrainian war effort. He had not heard from the husband for several days.
White House spokesman John Kirby said he could not confirm the Americans’ disappearance but said, “If true, we will do everything in our power to bring them safely home.” Americans are discouraged from traveling to Ukraine.
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What does that mean for the United States? If confirmed, the couple will be the first Americans arrested. It will complicate efforts in the war, as the United States tries to move away from direct confrontation with Russia.
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comes after two Pro-Russian officials have sentenced two Britons and a Moroccan to death in eastern Ukraine. The United Kingdom condemned the verdict as a show trial.
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Leaders of the three largest EU countries, Germany, France and Italy, will visit Kyiv On Thursday in a review of support for Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to push the leaders to supply Ukraine with more weapons.
In other news…
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John Hinckley, who shot and wounded former President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been released from court supervision. He’s been living in the community in Virginia since 2016 Decades later in a Washington mental hospital after he was cleared of trying to kill Reagan out of insanity.
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said she was not able to speak to any of the detained Uyghurs or their families, And he was with him Government officials during her visit to Xinjiang. Activists and some Western governments described it as a propaganda coup for Beijing.
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers argued that she should have been sentenced to “less than” 20 years in prison. That the surveillance authorities recommended in the case of sex trafficking. They claimed an inmate had threatened her life, claiming that an additional 20 years imprisonment “would be worth the money she would have for the murder of Mrs. Maxwell”.
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Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at stopping discrimination against transgender youth and ending federal funding for so-called conversion therapy for transgender youth. This comes amid a slew of anti-LGBTQI+ laws Introduced in state legislatures during the past year.
Today’s stat: The US will save 7.4 million lives globally if it reaches net zero by 2050
A total of 7.4 million lives would be saved worldwide during this century if the United States could reduce its emissions to net zero by 2050, According to a historical analysis. The research, conducted by the Climate Impact Lab, found that only 10 countries could save 3.7 million lives by achieving net zero, mainly due to their high consumption of fossil fuels. Texas alone could save 1.1 million lives.
Don’t Miss This: ‘I Was Willing To Risk Die’: Five Women Undergoing Miscarriages Before Ru
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer – as expected, those who live in about 20 states in the South and Midwest – will lose the right to an abortion. Five women from across the United States share their experiences of abortion in the pre-Roe v. Wade era. “Abortions are often talked about as endings,” says Kelly Wescott McCannell, executive director of Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights. “The women in our program have decades of life since their miscarriages that show what was made possible for them by that miscarriage.”
One last thing: Can you scare yourself with happiness?
Fear appears to be as beneficial to mental health as practicing mindfulness. So, naturally, writer Daniel Lavell tries to pack as much horror as possible into a few weeks. Here’s how he evaluated his streak of excitement, From roller coaster to spending midnight in the woods.
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