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☆ US weighs whether to designate US Army soldier in North Korea a POW
  + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Natasha Bertrand Oren Liebermann | Natasha Bertrand | Oren Liebermann | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —The Biden administration is debating whether to designate Travis King, the US Army soldier who crossed into North Korea last month, as a prisoner of war, defense officials told CNN. But VanLandingham said it’s unclear that North Korea would even acknowledge POW status or afford King the protections it bestows. A former senior Air Force lawyer said it’s unlikely King would receive POW status because there was no active fighting when he entered North Korea. In addition, King wasn’t forced into North Korea or captured by their forces, instead entering the country of his own free will. “He chose to go to North Korea,” the lawyer said, pointing out that King’s entry into North Korea was not related to the conflict in any way.
Persons: CNN —, Biden, Travis King, King, King “, ”, I’m, Private King, Fort, Rachel VanLandingham, VanLandingham, “, ” VanLandingham, wasn’t, King wasn’t Organizations: CNN, US Army, Geneva Convention, North, Defense, Private, US Forces Korea, Reuters, Southwestern Law School, Korean, Air Force Locations: North Korea, Geneva, South Korea, Fort Bliss , Texas, United States, Korea
☆ Exclusive: US declines to invoke prisoner of war status for Travis King
  + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Phil Stewart | Thomson Reuters | Phil Stewart Has Reported More Than Countries | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
As an active-duty soldier he might appear to qualify as a POW, given that the United States and North Korea technically remain at war. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment on King's POW status, but said the defense department's priority was to bring him home and it was working to achieve that through all available channels. Washington has conveyed that message in private communications to Pyongyang, the U.S. officials said, adding that those communications have not invoked POW status. PROTECTIONS FOR CAPTIVESPrisoners of war are protected by the Third Geneva Convention, to which North Korea and the U.S. are signatories. After serving time in detention in South Korea, King had been due to face military disciplinary action on his return to Fort Bliss, Texas.
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☆ Brett Favre helped an experimental drug maker get $2M in welfare money. Experts doubt the drug can work.
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dilanianmug.Jpg | Ken Dilanian | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
And he did more than evangelize, court records show — he successfully lobbied Mississippi state officials who granted the company $2.1 million in federal welfare money that was intended to help poor families. The payment was illegal, state officials allege in a lawsuit — part of a huge Mississippi welfare misspending scandal that has tarnished Favre’s reputation. Favre, who is being sued by Mississippi, has consistently said that he did not know the money he was seeking from the Mississippi Department of Human Services—the state welfare agency—was welfare money. Six people have been charged in what state and federal officials call a massive fraud scheme, including the former director of the state welfare agency, who is cooperating with the FBI and federal prosecutors. Favre is among 38 defendants in a civil lawsuit by the state seeking to recoup the welfare money, including the funds devoted to the volleyball facility and the unproven concussion drug.
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