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At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-explosions-caracas-ca712a67aaefc30b1831f5bf0b50665e
#ycombinator #Donald_Trump #Nicolas_Maduro #Venezuela #Caracas #Venezuela_government #Military_and_defense #War_and_unrest #United_States_government #General_news #Latin_America #United_States #Central_America #South_America #World_news #Drug_crimes #U_S_Department_of_Defense #Drug_cartels #Energy_industry #Politics #Carmen_Hidalgo

US plans to 'run' Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela at least temporarily after an audacious military operation plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country. Trump on Saturday also described plans to tap Venezuela's vast oil reserves to sell to other nations. The dramatic action capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on the South American nation and its autocratic leader and months of secret planning. It resulted in the most assertive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Legal experts immediately raised questions about whether the operation was lawful.

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Hacker News Sep 2, 2024

Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take effect
https://apnews.com/article/oregon-drugs-law-recriminalization-decriminalization-d188a0c678973d0d65419c52467f09a4
#ycombinator #Oregon #Drug_crimes #Crime #General_news #OR_State_Wire #U_S_news #COVID_19_pandemic #Prisons #Health #Opioids

Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take effect

Oregon’s experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday. A new law set to take effect then makes so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. Voters passed a first-in-the-nation decriminalization measure in 2020. Millions intended for addiction services were slow to move at a time when the fentanyl crisis was causing a spike in deadly overdoses. State auditors also found that health officials were slow to stand up the new treatment system while grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. Authorities are also set to disburse over $20 million in grants for county-level deflection programs for drug users.

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Hacker News Jun 24, 2024

Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider
https://apnews.com/article/car-dealerships-cyberattack-cdk-outage-3f7c81f6be0e212172b33cdc9f49feba
#ycombinator #North_America #Information_security #Group_1Automotive #Inc #Power_outages #General_news #IL_State_Wire #MI_State_Wire #Paper_and_packaging #Canada #Stellantis_NV #Business #Technology #Chicago #Drug_crimes #U_S_news #U_S_News

Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider

Car dealerships across North America continue to wrestle with disruptions that started last week. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks on Wednesday. That led to an outage that has continued to impact operations. Prospective car buyers have faced delays at dealerships or seen vehicle orders written up by hand. There’s no immediate end in sight, but CDK says it expects the restoration process to take several days to complete. On Monday, Group 1 Automotive Inc., a $4 billion automotive retailers, said that it continued to use “alternative processes” to sell cars to its customers.

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Hacker News Jan 30, 2024

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
#ycombinator #Prisons #Drug_crimes #Angola #Associated_Press #General_news #AP_Top_News #AP_Investigations #China #U_S_news #Coca_Cola_Co #General_Mills_Inc #Race_and_ethnicity #McDonalds_Corp #Alabama #Business #Angola_government #Archer_Daniels_Midland_Co #Burger_King_Holdings #Inc #Race_and_Ethnicity

Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. They are on the shelves of most supermarkets, including Kroger, Target and Whole Foods. They’re also exported. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and are sometimes paid pennies an hour or nothing at all. They also are excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job. And it can be almost impossible for them to sue.

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