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Exclusive: European banks face indigenous calls to end Amazon oil trade

European banks committed to backing action on climate change face allegations of double standards from indigenous groups in Ecuador after a report named them as major players in the trade in oil from the Amazon rainforest. Stand.earth and Amazon Watch said ING, Credit Suisse, Natixis, BNP Paribas, UBS and Rabobank were the largest backers in the shipment of about $10 billion of dollars of Ecuadorian crude to U.S. refineries over the last decade.

Cop posted "Kill em all" on protest livestream, investigation finds

The CSPD police chief chose not to fire Sergeant Wrede, calling his actions "an isolated incident of an error in judgment."

Investigators solve cold case of Alaska teen who was raped, murdered in 1996

The suspect died by suicide last week after investigators tried to obtain a DNA sample, authorities said.

Omar easily wins primary challenge as 'the Squad' continues unbeaten streak

The freshman congresswoman was facing a well-funded opponent in Minnesota's Fifth District but cruised to victory.

Coronavirus updates: Government partners with Moderna to make 100M vaccine doses

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 738,000 people worldwide. Over 20 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks.

QAnon supporter seems headed to Congress after winning GOP runoff

Marjorie Taylor Greene has won Tuesday’s runoff election for the Republican nomination in Georgia’s conservative 14th Congressional District, putting her on track to becoming the first open supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory in the House of Representatives.

Los Angeles police officer accused in lawsuit of fondling dead woman's body

"Shock and disgust does not even come close to describing the horror," the woman's mother said in an emotional statement.

Pompano Beach man killed in home burglary, deputies say. He may have been the burglar

An early morning break-in led to the shooting death of a man in Pompano Beach on Saturday.

Mexico's new warning labels on junk food meet supersized opposition from U.S., EU

The United States, European Union, Canada and Switzerland, home to some of the world's biggest food companies, have pressed Mexico to delay upcoming health warnings on processed food and drinks, a World Trade Organization document showed. Mexico, the largest consumer of processed food in Latin America and the fourth-largest in the world, has long struggled with high rates of obesity and diabetes.

Colorado AG announces broad investigation into policies of Aurora Police Department

The Colorado attorney general's office on Tuesday announced it has launched a civil rights investigation into the Aurora Police Department's "patterns and practices," following several high-profile cases of alleged excessive force and misconduct.This review began several weeks ago, a spokesperson said, and is separate from an investigation into the 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died after officers used a chokehold on him. Earlier Tuesday, McClain's family filed a lawsuit against the Aurora Police Department and paramedics who injected him with ketamine.Last week, a video went viral showing Aurora officers holding a Black family at gunpoint, after the officers mistakenly thought the family was in a stolen car. As they all lay face down on the pavement, one of the children is heard sobbing and screaming, "I want my mother!" The department later apologized, and interim Chief of Police Vanessa Wilson said there will be a review of how officers are trained to conduct high-risk stops.More stories from theweek.com Trump campaign tweets mugshots of alleged criminals, all of them Black, to claim Biden is pro-crime Donald Trump is trying to steal the election Sarah Palin offers advice to Kamala Harris: 'Trust no one new' and ignore the 'yahoos'

A man was forcibly carried out of an Arizona grocery store after he screamed profanities at an employee over face mask requirements

"You are a bunch of idiots wearing masks. You know it's not real," the man yelled in a video that went viral.

‘We want to bring awareness to her neighbors.’ Miami protest staged at state attorney’s home.

For months, protesters decrying police brutality marched on the streets of downtown Miami, near jails and courthouses and outside the office of the county’s top prosecutor, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.

Dermstore Anniversary Event 2020: Major savings on eye cream, anti-aging products and more

Dermstore's Anniversary Event in full swing and its packed with must-have beauty essentials and cant-miss sales. Also, if you are a Dermstore Rewards member, you will receive double the points when shopping some of the store's top brands, such as Olaplex and EltaMD. From skincare essentials, such as SkinMedica's TNS Illuminating Eye Cream, and hero hair tools, such as Harry Josh Pro Tools Pro Dryer 2000, these deep discounts have arrived just in time for summer.

President Trump blasts Biden’s VP pick, Kamala Harris, as 'meanest, most horrible, most disrespectful' senator

President Trump welcomed Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., to the presidential race by blasting her as “extraordinarily nasty” and one of the “most liberal” members of the Senate.

Memorial set in Houston for slain Texas soldier

A memorial for a slain Texas soldier has been scheduled more than three months after she was killed by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, an attorney for the family announced Tuesday. The service is set for Friday at the same field on which Vanessa Guillen once played soccer as a high school athlete, Guillen family attorney Natalie Khawam said in a news release. Guillen disappeared from Fort Hood on April 22, and Army officials confirmed July 6 that her remains had been found.

Fauci says he has serious doubts Russia's COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective

Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC News' Deborah Roberts that he seriously doubts the Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine, dubbed Sputnik V and touted by President Vladimir Putin, has been proven safe and effective. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, shared the comments exclusively with National Geographic in a virtual panel discussion moderated by Roberts. "I hope that the Russians have actually, definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective," Fauci said.

Appeals court hears arguments on Michael Flynn case

The appeals court held a nearly four-hour hearing over a lower court's refusal to immediately grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss criminal charges against the former national security adviser.

Trump surprised Biden picked Kamala Harris as running mate

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was surprised Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden chose Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate because she had been disrespectful to the former vice president during the debates. Trump said Harris had been "very, very nasty" to Biden during the primaries.

U.S. inks $1.5 billion deal with Moderna for 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

The United States in recent weeks has made deals to acquire hundreds of millions of doses of potential COVID-19 vaccines from several companies as part of its Operation Warp Speed program, which aims to deliver a vaccine in the country by the end of the year. Moderna's price per dose comes to around $30.50 per person for a two dose regimen. With the exception of its deal with AstraZeneca, which offered a lower price per drug in exchange for upfront research and development costs, all the deals price COVID-19 vaccines between $20 to $42 for a two dose course of treatment.

Man held on $1 million bond in shooting that allegedly sparked looting in Chicago

CHICAGO - The man whose shooting by police in Englewood on Sunday allegedly sparked looting in downtown Chicago was ordered held on a $1 million bond Tuesday. Latrell Allen allegedly shot at police officers, who returned fire, wounding him, touching off a series of events that ended in chaos in some of the city's top shopping districts, authorities have said. He was being pursued because he ...

Bill Cosby's lawyers appeal for a new trial

Cosby, 83, is serving a three- to 10-year sentence and has been behind bars for nearly two years.

Deadline extended for U.S. farmers seeking federal aid from COVID-19 damage

U.S. farmers impacted by the economic shutdown as the coronavirus hammered the global economy have more time to apply for aid from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday it is extending the deadline to apply for direct payments through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program to Sept. 11. The announcement came after an Aug. 7 letter from dozens of farm groups asking the agency to extend the deadline for farmers to apply.

Family of Elijah McClain, who died after a police encounter, sues city, police

The family of a 23-year-old Black man who died after a violent encounter with Aurora, Colorado, police officers filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and its police on Tuesday, alleging murder and routine use of excessive force against Black people. The man, Elijah McClain, was walking on the street alone in August 2019 when he was stopped by three officers based on a report that he was "being suspicious." McClain died days later in the hospital.

In wake of Englewood shooting, Chicago mayor says all police officers dealing with public need body cameras

CHICAGO - Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city shouldn't be sending police officers out on the street without body-worn cameras but defended the department's account of a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood that allegedly touched off looting and civil unrest over the weekend. On a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon, Lightfoot acknowledged the Chicago police officer who shot ...

Suspicious husband sets up hidden camera to prove wife was poisoning him, NC cops say

She was spiking his and his son’s drinks with cleaning chemicals and paint primer, police say

AP sources: Man shot near White House had shouted threats

Police sources said the 51 year old man shot in an incident that abruptly interrupted Trump’s briefing had been shouting that he was going to kill people outside the White House.

How Kamala Harris found the political identity that had eluded her

Months after her presidential campaign collapsed amid questions over her political identity, Kamala Harris suddenly and forcefully found her voice – and at a fortuitous time. Harris, a 55-year-old U.S. senator from California, was chosen by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as his running mate on Tuesday, making history as the first Black woman and Asian-American on a major presidential ticket. With the United States in the midst of a reckoning over its history of racial injustice, Biden had increasingly been pressed to select a woman of color.

'I refuse to let him be a convicted felon at 8': Mother of special needs boy handcuffed by police files lawsuit

A Florida mother whose 8-year-old son with special needs was arrested and imprisoned before having felony charges levied against him is suing the police department and school district she believes failed her child.On Tuesday, Bianca Digennaro and a team of lawyers - including Ben Crump, who also represents the family of George Floyd - announced they were suing the Key West Police Department and the Monroe County School District over what they believe is a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Democrat Joe Biden chooses Senator Kamala Harris for White House running mate

With social unrest over racial injustice rocking the country for months, Biden had been under increasing pressure to select a Black woman as his running mate. Harris is also the first Asian-American on a major presidential ticket. In Harris, a 55-year-old senator from California who made her own run for the White House, Biden gains an experienced politician already battle-tested by the rigors of the 2020 presidential campaign as they head into the final stretch of the Nov. 3 election.

'A beautiful young man': Elijah McClain family sues over his death in Colorado police custody

"Aurora Police Department officers ... saw none of the kindness and gentleness for which he was known, but rather just another Black man," the family's attorney said.

Jayla, 11, who walked out of her Miami home Monday and disappeared, has been found

Jayla Jones, the 11-year-old who walked out of her family’s Little Haiti apartment at 8:26 Monday morning and disappeared, has been found unharmed, police said Tuesday evening.

Biden picks Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his long-awaited pick for a running mate, selecting Sen. Kamala Harris.

Ghislaine Maxwell says she is being mistreated in jail and that she should be taken out of solitary confinement

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, want her released into her jail's general population.

Officer shoots suspect after he’s accidentally hit with stun gun, Nevada video shows

“Who was it?” one officer asked after shots were fired in the video. “I think it was me. I got shot with the Taser and I thought...[expletive].”

Mother of arrested Key West boy sues city, police officers, teacher and school district

Lawyers for the mother of a now 10-year-old boy who Key West police officers tried to handcuff in 2018 at his elementary school after he was accused of punching a teacher filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday in federal court against the school district, the city, the individual officers involved as well as the teacher and two school officials.

Seattle police chief resigns after cuts to police budget

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigned on Tuesday, a day after the city council cut her department's budget as part of a reform movement following mass protests against racial bias and violence in policing. Best's surprise departure marked one of the most notable big-city police department shakeups in the aftermath of nationwide demonstrations spurred by the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man, who was pinned under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer. Graphic video footage of the fatal encounter stirred a public outcry against heavy-handed police tactics and racism within the U.S. criminal justice system, triggering months of street protests in cities across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.