News in brief

By The Associated Press

Venezuelan judge issues arrest warrant for former presidential candidate

CARACAS, Venezuela | A Venezuelan judge has issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the disputed July election.

The warrant, issued Monday, comes just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner. The warrant was issued at the request of authorities who accuse González, a former diplomat, of various crimes including conspiracy, falsifying documents and usurpation of powers.

It comes just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of a disputed election that his opponents say he lost.

Brazil Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds decision to block X

RIO DE JANEIRO | A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide. That’s according to the court’s website.

The broader support among justices undermines the effort of Musk and his supporters to cast Justice Alexandre de Moraes as a renegade and authoritarian censor of political speech.

The panel is comprised of five of the full bench’s 11 justices, including de Moraes. He ordered the platform blocked for having failed to name a local legal representative as required by law.

X will remain blocked until it complies with his orders.

Investigators gather evidence at scene of Mississippi

bus crash

BOVINA, Miss. | Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are collecting evidence at the scene of a commercial bus crash in Mississippi that killed seven people and injured dozens of others.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the 2018 Volvo bus was traveling westbound on Interstate 20 near Bovina early Saturday when a left front tire failed and the vehicle veered onto an embankment and overturned. The Mississippi Highway Patrol says six people aboard were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital. Thirty-six people were taken to hospitals.

The highway patrol didn’t have an update on their conditions Sunday.

—From AP reports