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Saudi Arabia executes 26-year-old man for protesting against the government when he was a teen, human rights groups say

Saudi Arabia executed a 26-year-old for protesting against the government, Reprieve said.

Al-Darwish's family received no advance notice of his execution, according to human rights groups.

Saudi Arabia has executed a young man over his reported involvement in anti-government protests when he was a teenager, human rights groups said Tuesday.

The Saudi Ministry of the Interior announced that Mustafa al-Darwish, 26, had been executed, according to Reprieve.

According to Reprieve, al-Darwish was placed in solitary confinement and "beaten so badly that he lost consciousness several times.".

"Once again the Saudi authorities have shown that their claims to abolished the death penalty for children are worthless," al-Dubaisy added. »

'Unplanned' outages hit Texas power plants in soaring temperatures

Authored by nbcnews.com

Officials with Texas' power grid operator pleaded with residents Monday to limit their electrical usage amid soaring temperatures and a series of mechanical problems at power plants.

A spokeswoman for the group told reporters that the outages accounted for more than 12,000 megawatts, enough to power 2.4 million homes.

A senior official with ERCOT, Warren Lasher, said it wasn't clear why there were so many unplanned outages. »

Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they'll run out of people to employ, according to a new report

Authored by businessinsider.com

Employee churn is so high that some Amazon execs are reportedly worried about running out of people.

Many of the over 350,000 workers Amazon hired from July to October stayed with the company "just days or weeks," the report said.

That led some Amazon executives to worry about running out of hirable employees in the US, the report said. »

Shake Shack manager accused of poisoning shakes sues NYPD officers, union for defamation

Authored by nbcnews.com

The manager of a New York City Shake Shack restaurant said he was unlawfully detained by police and "taunted" after he was falsely accused last year of poisoning three officers' milkshakes.

It's not clear if Gilliam is still employed with Shake Shack, and the company could not immediately be reached Tuesday.

The detectives union tweeted out that the three officers had been "intentionally poisoned" by workers at a Lower Manhattan Shake Shack. »

21 Republicans vote against awarding medals to police who defended Capitol

Authored by thehill.com

The four medals awarded under the bill would be displayed at the Capitol Police headquarters, at the D.C. Metropolitan Police headquarters, at the Smithsonian Institution and in a "prominent location" in the Capitol.

The resolution names three police officers — Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood of the Capitol Police and Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police — who died in the days after they were on duty at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

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