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Associated Press CALI, Colombia (AP) — At the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, negotiators struggle to find common ground on key issues, such as how to finance protections for 30% of the Earth’s wild species by 2023 and how to make payments for nature’s genetic data. Observers say pledges have not met expectations and

Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Luis Arce has condemned the seizure of three military units by supporters of former President Evo Morales, calling it “an absolutely reprehensible criminal act that is far from any legitimate social claim of the Indigenous peasant movement.” Earlier on Friday, the armed forces had urged those

Associated Press AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — In 2006, environmental nonprofits and some of the world’s largest soybean traders came together in a landmark “soy moratorium” to stop the sale of soy grown on illegally deforested land in Brazil’s Amazon. Participants included Greenpeace, WWF, Cargill and Bunge. Now, Mato Grosso state, Brazil’s largest soybean producer,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Halloween is gaining ground in Mexico, but in a country so wracked by drug cartel violence, there have been real fears about ghosts, ghouls and skeletons walking the streets. The concern isn’t so much about competition for Mexico’s traditional, home-grown Day of the Dead celebrations, which are going off Friday and

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Secret Service report into the July assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump says multiple staffers knew about clear line-of-sight risks but found them “acceptable.” That’s one of the findings of an internal review released Friday into how the Secret Service’s own staffers handled security leading up to

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in unairconditioned cells at a prison near the Florida Everglades has contributed to the deaths of four people and that state officials have failed to take “meaningful action” to

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lyft is paying $2.1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the ride-hailing service of exaggerating how much money drivers could make while the company was trying to recover from a steep downturn in demand during the pandemic. The agreement disclosed Friday by the U.S. Justice Department formalizes a settlement Lyft reached

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Online video production company MrBeast says it has fired somewhere between 5 to 10 employees following an investigation into the YouTube empire’s workplace culture. The shakeup comes as MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, deals with accusations of impropriety against himself and others within his multimillion-dollar production company

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government has broken its silence over growing tensions with neighboring Venezuela, with the Foreign Ministry saying it was surprised by “the offensive tone” adopted by Venezuelan authorities toward Brazil. In recent days, Venezuela’s government has escalated its criticism of Brazilian foreign relations officials and even President Luiz Inácio

Associated Press/Report for America ELKINSVILLE, La. (AP) — Residents of the historic Black community of Elkinsville in southeastern Louisiana have elevated their fight against an ammonia plant proposed nearby. A law clinic representing  community members petitioned the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality on Friday to recuse itself from deciding on a permit for the ammonia

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s federal and state legislatures, all dominated by the ruling Morena party, have passed amendments to the Constitution that prohibit courts from challenging any Constitutional reforms. In the past, courts in Mexico were able to rule on whether a new reform violated existing precepts in the Constitution, or international