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May 1 Overnight Brief
In the Americas
In Brazil, Congress has moved to override President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s veto and cut former President Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence, after Bolsonaro was convicted over plotting a coup following the 2022 election. It is, apparently, still possible to make a conviction look negotiable if you have enough allies in the room.
In Arizona, authorities are searching for Nancy Guthrie after a masked intruder abducted her from her home in Pima County. The FBI has joined the case as investigators examine a ransom demand and possible financial motives inside the family. In Washington state, six people, five students and a security guard, were hospitalized after a stabbing at Foss High School.
At Michigan State University’s Wells Hall, police arrested Xin Tong after finding chemicals and equipment that could be used to make methamphetamine. Officials later said no meth lab was actually operating in the building and no risk to the campus community was found, which is a small mercy in a story that needed one.
In global risks and rights
The head of Yara says a fertiliser shortage linked to the Iran conflict could hit crop yields and push food prices higher, with billions of meals potentially at risk if supply is disrupted. That is the kind of chain reaction that starts in geopolitics and ends in grocery bills.
UN Women is warning that women in public life are facing more aggressive online abuse, driven by AI, anonymity and weak legal protections. The report says journalists, campaigners and other public figures are seeing deeper threats in digital spaces, including AI-assisted sexual violence used as a tool of harassment.
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