First Thing: Fox and Dominion settle for $787m election defamation lawsuit Voting equipment firm was seeking $1.6bn. Plus, mother of Black teenager shot after going to wrong address speaks The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2023
Biden urged to free Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier after decades in prison Amnesty urges president to grant clemency to Peltier convicted of killing two FBI agents in trial rife with due process violations The Guardian - US · Apr 18, 2023
First Thing: Turkey and Syria earthquake death toll ‘could pass 20,000’ World Health Organization official warns that number killed could quadruple. Plus, efforts to save the pink river dolphin The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2023
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier in plea for clemency after 47 years in jail Exclusive: Peltier, 78, convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975, tells Guardian of desire to return home to tribal land The Guardian - US · Feb 6, 2023
First Thing: Ukraine’s interior minister killed in helicopter crash Denys Monastyrskiy and officials, as well as children, among dead after crash outside Kyiv. Plus, meteorologists describe what it’s like to have a front row seat to the climate crisis The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2023
FBI’s opposition to releasing Leonard Peltier driven by vendetta, says ex-agent Exclusive: retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley calls for clemency for Indigenous activist who has been in prison for nearly 50 years The Guardian - US · Jan 18, 2023
Leonard Peltier is America’s longest-held Indigenous prisoner. He should be freed Millions have called for Peltier’s release since his incarceration, including Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu before their deaths. It’s time to act The Guardian - US · Feb 2, 2022
US’s longest-serving political prisoner Leonard Peltier says prison is ‘torture chamber’ amid Covid lockdowns Leonard Peltier describes the loneliness of lockdown as similar to “staring down the face” of a death penalty The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2022