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NEW YORK — Executives at KSK Construction, the Brooklyn-based contractor facing scrutiny as part of a federal investigation into Mayor Adams’ 2021 campaign, have made contributions to and worked with Turkey’s second largest political party, which controls more than a fifth of the country’s parliament, according to federal disclosures. The revelations about KSK’s ties to the Turkish Republican People’s Party come on the heels of reports that the federal probe is scrutinizing whether Adams’ campaign conspired with KSK and the Turkish government to funnel illegal foreign cash into the campaign’s ......

Community Through Hope, the Chula Vista charity that provided food, showers and other help to unsheltered people across the South Bay in recent years, generated a lot of sympathy when it announced last month that it was shutting its storefront due to a lack of resources. Founder and chief executive Rosa Vasquez blamed the COVID-19 pandemic and a spike in demand for services for the unfortunate downturn in revenue. But she nonetheless pledged to build back the organization with the help of more donations. "We are not giving up," Vasquez told CBS 8 last month. "We really do believe that if folks......

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police officer who fatally shot Eddie Irizarry last month at near point-blank range as he sat in his car has been charged with murder, prosecutors said. Mark Dial, 27, surrendered to police Friday morning, alongside his attorneys and leaders from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5. Dial said nothing, staring ahead as he walked through the station doors. District Attorney Larry Krasner said his office has charged Dial with first-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, and related offenses. Dial was set to be arraigned Friday afternoon. “We ......

Climate change protesters spray-painted Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie’s superyacht Sunday while it was docked in Ibiza. Two members of Spanish activist group Futuro Vegetal unleashed red and black spray paint from fire extinguishers on the yacht Kaos. The two young men then unfurled a banner that read, “You consume, others suffer.” Crew members on the superyacht tried in vain to wash off the paint with hoses. “The richest 1% of the world’s population pollutes more than the poorest 50%,” the Futuro Vegetal members said. “They are condemning us to a future of pain, misery and desolation.” ......

Congress and the United States’ top American diplomat called on the Cuban government Tuesday to release all political prisoners, many of whom were arrested for joining pro-democracy protests two years ago. To mark the second anniversary of protests that spread through the island on July 11, 2021, the chairmen of the Senate and House committees dealing with foreign affairs, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, introduced a bipartisan resolution “condemning the ongoing acts of repression and human rights violations against the Cuban people by the Cuban regime, and ca......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A group of civil rights organizations on Friday again asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate constitutional violations, excessive force complaints and discrimination against Black people by the Kansas City Police Department. The group, led by the Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity, or MORE2, includes the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City and other faith and social activist groups. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, released publicly by the group Friday, the activist......