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North Korea’s Kim threatens to use nuclear weapons amid tensions with U.S. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. Kim’s speech to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War was apparently meant to boost internal unity in the impoverished country amid pandemic-related economic difficulties. While Kim has increasingly threatened his rivals with nuclear weapons, it’s unlikely that he would use them first against the superior militaries of the U.S. and its allies, observers say. “Our armed forces are completely prepared to respond to any crisis, and our country’s nuclear war deterrent is also ready to mobilize its absolute power dutifully, exactly and swiftly in accordance with its mi...

More than a dozen female inmates were raped, assaulted or harassed in an Indiana jail after a corrections officer allegedly sold off keys to their cells to male prisoners for $1,000 each, multiple lawsuits allege. The women claim they were forced to endure a “night of terror” at the Clark County Jail in Jefferson after officer David Lowe, 29, allegedly gave the male inmates access to the female housing pod for several hours on Oct. 23, 2021. At least two female inmates claim they were raped during the ordeal, while others allege they were groped, fondled, harassed and intimidated, according to the lawsuits. Eight women filed a federal civil rights complaint against Lowe, the Clark County sheriff and other corrections officers last week, while another suit was filed on behalf of 20 women last month. Lowe, who has since been fired and criminally charged over the incident, was on duty the night he allegedly handed out the keys to the male inmates after...