Courthouse News Service

1 day ago | courthousenews.com | Matilde Campodonico |Isabel Debre

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89.

1 day ago | courthousenews.com | Sam Ribakoff

Gunshots shocked other officers, who expected to chase and apprehend Nicholas Bils when he ran from police custody, not shoot and kill him, a federal prosecutor argued. SAN DIEGO (CN) — A former San Diego County sheriff's deputy shocked fellow officers when he fatally shot an unarmed man outside San Diego’s downtown jail because the man he shot wasn’t a threat to anyone, an attorney for the federal government said during opening arguments in the officer’s criminal trial on Tuesday.

1 day ago | courthousenews.com | Lucía Cholakian Herrera |Lucia Herrera

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (CN) — There’s no definitive consensus on who invented one of the world’s tastiest and seemingly Italian dishes, but one thing is certain: Its origins trace back to the Argentine coast, specifically to the city of Mar del Plata, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Sorrentinos, a rounded ravioli-like pasta, are not only a culinary delight, but a testament to the enduring cultural ties between Italy and Argentina.

1 day ago | courthousenews.com | Steve Karnowski

WAVERLY, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota farmer Dan Glessing isn’t ready to get too upset over President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Farm country voted heavily for Trump last November. Now Glessing and many other farmers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Republican president's disputes with China and other international markets. China normally would buy about one row out of every four of the Minnesota soybean crop and took in nearly $13 billion worth of soybeans from the U.S. as a whole last year.

1 day ago | courthousenews.com | Megan Butler

ATLANTA (CN) — National voting rights group Fair Fight and Georgia voters urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to overturn a ruling finding a conservative vote-monitoring group did not unlawfully intimidate voters. The 11th Circuit expressed concern that the lower court may not have fully analyzed whether Texas-based True The Vote and its president Catherine Engelbrecht violated the Voting Rights Act by "attempting" to intimidate voters.