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Veterans

A draft resister, a judge and the moment that still binds them after 54 years

As an 22-year-old in 1967, Bob Zaugh had found a purpose in his life more important than school, career or even freedom. It was a recognition of the commonality of all humans that meant he could not support the Vietnam War or the system that sent young men to fight in it.

June 14, 2024

The plywood shack where workers bunked on Chris Gamble’s cannabis farm in Mendocino County, California.

Americas

A father and son shot, dismembered and burned. This is the dark side of California cannabis

A quest for U.S. dollars, at the height of a runaway cannabis market, brought a father and son to a crude shed on a Mendocino County farm, beside other Mexican laborers in the underground economy. Traveling the other direction were coffins as the California green rush was exploiting and killing workers.

November 16, 2023

Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney, on June 9, 2021.

Asia-Pacific

Decorated Australian war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners in Afghanistan, judge says

Ben Roberts-Smith became a national hero in 2011 when he was awarded the Victoria Cross, Australia's highest award recognizing gallantry in the presence of an enemy. He met Queen Elizabeth II several times as a distinguished Australian.

June 1, 2023

In this Sept. 11, 2022, photo, the Ukrainian war crimes prosecutor for the Kharkiv region watches as police investigators a corpse in a body bag in the liberated village of Zaliznychne.

Europe

66,000 war crimes have been reported; Ukraine vows to prosecute them all

The number of potential war crimes in Ukraine is in the tens of thousands, making choices about what to prosecute very difficult.

January 29, 2023

U.S. WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner sits inside a defendants' cage before a hearing at the Khimki Court outside Moscow on July 27, 2022. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Europe

Shadowy arms dealer Viktor Bout may be key to Russia's release of WNBA star Brittney Griner

Viktor Bout has long been the type of shadowy figure who inhabits spy novels, a convicted arms dealer who commanded a billion-dollar operation of aircraft fleets to supply weapons to notorious dictators, drug lords and armies fighting wars — and sometimes one another.

July 30, 2022

History

July 4 parade led to a massacre of Black people in Hamburg, SC

The Hamburg Massacre spurred additional racial violence in the South in advance of the 1876 presidential election, which ultimately led to more than 90 years of white control and segregation in the region.

July 4, 2022

William and Angela Johnson rest their hands on their son Andrew's shoulders. While he was jailed, "I would have given anything to touch him," William Johnson said.

U.S.

A Black Army vet spent 16 months in solitary — before facing a jury

A nighttime encounter with two strangers in San Jose, Calif., led to Andrew Johnson’s arrest for attempted murder. Johnson insisted he was defending himself and had done nothing wrong. But at 26, he was sent to solitary immediately after he was booked into the jail to await trial.

June 13, 2022

Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, has been charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Aaron Davis

U.S.

U.S. judge in sedition case asks if Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes gave order to breach Capitol

A federal judge zeroed in Wednesday on whether Rhodes, the founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, directly ordered members to break into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, probing the U.S. government's case in its first indictment alleging seditious conspiracy in the attack.

February 16, 2022

Middle East

For years, the voice behind ISIS propaganda was a mystery; now a Canadian faces criminal charges

Mohammed Khalifa, 38, a Canadian who U.S. prosecutors allege is behind influential English-language propaganda videos for the Islamic State, has been brought to Virginia to be prosecuted.

October 2, 2021

The Corp of Cadets march out of the barracks in May for a change-of-command ceremony at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Parker Michels-Boyce

U.S.

Derision, misogyny, sexual assault: VMI women face attacks on campus and online

The investigation by the law firm Barnes & Thornburg found that sexism on the Lexington campus — which received $19.3 million in state funding for fiscal 2021, along with $33 million toward a new aquatics center — may be just as serious a problem as racism.

July 12, 2021

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