Bridgeport detectives suspended over handling of probes into deaths of 2 Black women

The two cases remain under active investigation and have been reassigned to other police officers, Ganim said. "The Bridgeport Police Department has high standards for officer sensitivity especially in matters involving the death of a family ...

source https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1076975342/brenda-rawls-bridgeport-police-department-lauren-smith-fields

Explained: Why Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'Maus' topped Amazon best-seller list

A unanimous decision by the McMinn County school board in Tennessee, US, to pull Jewish American cartoonist Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus from its syllabus has seen a unique protest — on January 28, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book climbed to the ...

source https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-why-pulitzer-prize-winning-novel-maus-topped-amazon-best-seller-list-7749614/

Holocaust book Maus hits bestseller list after Tennessee school board ban

By the American cartoonist Art Spiegelman and first published in 1986, Maus describes the experiences of Spiegelman's parents in Nazi concentration camps and his mother's suicide. The book depicts Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats.

source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/holocaust-novel-maus-bestseller-after-tennessee-school-ban

Statement from President Biden on Mark Frerichs

Two years ago tomorrow, U.S. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs was taken hostage in Afghanistan. A civil engineer, he spent a decade helping the people of Afghanistan. He has done nothing wrong. And yet, for two years the Taliban has held him captive.

source https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/30/statement-from-president-biden-on-mark-frerichs/

Afghanistan: more than 100 believed killed despite Taliban amnesty offer, says UN

The United Nations says it has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 members of the ousted Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since the Taliban took over on 15 August.

source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/afghanistan-more-than-100-believed-killed-despite-taliban-amnesty-offer-says-un

Prosecutors Strike Hate-Crime Plea Deals in Ahmaud Arbery Killing

ATLANTA — Prosecutors have reached a plea deal with two of the three white men facing federal hate-crimes charges for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, the Black man who was chased through a Georgia neighborhood and fatally shot, court documents show.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crime-plea-deal.html

Freedom Convoy: Truckers cause chaos in Ottawa after second day of protests

Protesters against a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border have brought Canada's capital city to a standstill for a second day. Thousands of demonstrators joined the so-called Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

source https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60190452