Month: September 2022

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associates Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has returned to Mississippi’s capital city to meet with Jackson officials about the city’s troubled water system. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says the city plans to work with the U.S Justice Department and the EPA to seek

CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese medical officials have warned that more than 1,500 unidentified bodies piled up in Sudan’s mortuaries could lead to an outbreak of diseases. The medical officials Monday made the claim as they argued against the need for any further investigation into the causes of death. In May, more than 2,000 unidentified corpses

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a gun found after a weekend shooting at a western Pennsylvania amusement park that wounded three people had been reported stolen in Ohio last year. Allegheny County police said Monday that a trace of the weapon found after Saturday night’s shooting at Kennywood Park indicated that the firearm

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has announced that French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington in early December for the first state visit of President Joe Biden’s tenure. Such visits are marked by pomp and pageantry and are designed to celebrate relations between the United

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it has detained a Japanese diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok for soliciting “restricted” information. News agencies reported that Japanese consul Motoki Tatsunori had allegedly offered money for sensitive information regarding Moscow’s cooperation with an unnamed state in the Asia-Pacific. He also reportedly wanted information on the impact

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It’s been over a century since a major storm like Hurricane Ian has struck the Tampa Bay area, which blossomed from a few hundred thousand people in 1921 to more than 3 million today. Many of these people live in low-lying neighborhoods that are highly