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The Latest: S Korea sets another new high for daily cases

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by Rayos Syndication User

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea is reporting a new daily high for coronavirus cases a day after authorities enforced stringent restrictions in areas outside the Seoul capital region seeking to slow a nationwide spread of infections. The 1,896 cases announced Wednesday took the country’s total for the pandemic to 193,427, with 2,083 deaths from COVID-19. It was the highest…

2 Colorado officers arrested after 1 hits suspect with gun

By PATTY NIEBERG and JAMES ANDERSON - Associated Press/Report for America
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New video shows a Colorado police officer using his pistol to beat a man he was trying to arrest, choking him and threatening to kill him. The body camera footage was released Tuesday of the arrest in the Denver suburb of Aurora. The Police Department has been plagued by allegations of misconduct in recent years, including the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. One officer has been arrested on assault allegations, while another officer accused of failing to stop her colleague as required by a new law. Both officers have turned themselves in. Police Chief Vanessa Wilson called the arrest Friday a “very despicable act.”

Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river

By JASON DEAREN - Associated Press
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In 2015, three Ku Klux Klan members hatched a plot to murder a Black man who had been recently released from a state prison. But the FBI eventually got wind of the scheme. A confidential informant had infiltrated the group, and his recordings provide a rare, detailed look at the inner workings of a modern klan cell and a domestic terrorism probe. The Associated Press has reconstructed the story of the failed murder plot by klansmen who also worked as Florida prison guards using one and a half hours of the FBI informant’s secret recordings, thousands of pages of public records, field reporting and interviews.