UN Reports Thousands Killed in Sudan, Concerns Grow Over US Autocracy, and DNA Evidence Emerges in Guthrie Case
CAIRO - The United Nations reported that over 6,000 people were killed in a three-day period during an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan's Darfur region in late October, according to multiple reports from NPR. The offensive to capture the city of el-Fasher included widespread atrocities that the U.N. Human Rights Office said amounted to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. Simultaneously, concerns about the trajectory of democracy in the United States continue to grow, with some political scientists suggesting the country has moved closer to some form of autocracy as the nation heads toward midterm elections. In other news, the FBI announced that DNA from a glove found near the home of Savannah Guthrie's mother appears to match a glove worn by a suspect the night she vanished.
The RSF's attack on el-Fasher was described as unleashing "a wave of intense violence shocking in its scale and brutality," according to the United Nations, as reported by NPR. The violence occurred in late October. Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, a prominent figure in the RSF, was seen at a military-backed tribes' rally in July 2019.
Meanwhile, in the United States, concerns about the state of democracy are rising. Staffan I. Lindberg, the director of Sweden's V-Dem Institute, which monitors democracy across the globe, stated that the U.S. has already crossed the threshold and become an "electoral autocracy," according to NPR. Protests against federal immigration actions have been ongoing, with rallies like the "ICE Out of Everywhere" event in Los Angeles on January 31.
In a separate development, the FBI announced that DNA from a glove found about two miles from the house of Savannah Guthrie's mother in Tucson, Arizona, appears to match those worn by a masked person outside her front door the night she vanished. The glove was discovered in a field beside a road and sent for DNA testing. The FBI received preliminary results Saturday and was awaiting official confirmation, according to the Associated Press, as reported by NPR.
In other news, Ars Technica retracted an article that contained fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. The publication stated that this was a serious failure of their standards, as direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said. The publication has reviewed recent work and has not identified additional issues, and at this time, this appears to be an isolated incident.
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