News in brief
By The Associated Press
Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico’s election
MEXICO CITY | Mexico has held the last day of campaigning before Sunday’s nationwide elections. But the closing campaign rallies Wednesday were darkened by a wave of attacks on candidates.
Late on Tuesday, a mayoral candidate in the western state of Jalisco was shot multiple times by intruders in his home. Two of his campaign staff were also wounded, and all three are hospitalized in serious condition. Gunmen killed an alternate mayoral candidate in Morelos state, just south of Mexico City. Attackers on a motorcycle shot him five times in the head.
Alternate candidates take office if the winner of a race is incapacitated or resigns.
Alito rejects calls to quit Supreme Court cases
WASHINGTON | Former President Donald Trump is congratulating Justice Samuel Alito for rejecting calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases involving Trump and Jan. 6 defendants because of the controversy over flags that flew over Alito’s homes.
Alito says in letters to members of Congress on Wednesday that his wife was responsible for flying an upside-down flag over his Virginia home in 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house last year. Both flags were like those carried by rioters who violently stormed the Capitol in January 2021 while echoing Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
Alito says neither incident at his homes merits his recusal.
Nurse fired
after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’
in speech
NEW YORK | A nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel’s war in Gaza as “genocide” during a speech accepting an award.
Hesen Jabr was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza. Jabr said that Palestinian women are going through unimaginable losses “during the current genocide in Gaza.”She was fired the next time she reported for work.
A spokesperson for NYU Langone said some of Jabr’s colleagues were upset by her comments.
—From AP reports
