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According to multiple sources on-site and close to the State of Mississippi’s intervention in Jackson’s O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant that were not authorized to speak publicly, state Health and Emergency Management officials were met with a mix of “grateful faces” from a severely overworked and critically understaffed facility workforce operating in “fundamentally unsafe conditions” that needed to be immediately addressed. Critically unsafe municipal staffing levels were discovered when state officials arrived on-site. Particularly in the overnight hours, staff had dwindled to one operator on-site tasked with handling both the membrane and conventional filtering systems leaving a single point...

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Symone” that former President Donald Trump was telling his followers “there should be violence” if he was indicted. Host Symone Sanders said, “There are 43% of Americans out there who believe a Civil War is either very, or somewhat likely to happen in the next decade. That is according to a poll by You Gov and the Economists. They also found that those who identify as quote strong Republicans are most likely to believe this. You have also got these elected Republican officials like Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for a national divorce....

No one left on ballot in Arizona state Senate district.. A Democratic member of the state House of Representatives who just won his primary for state Senate announced Friday that he is resigning, leaving no one on the ballot in his southwest Phoenix district. Diego Espinoza defeated a fellow House member Richard Andrade in the August primary for District 22's Senate seat. The heavily Democratic district covers parts of Glendale, Phoenix, Avondale and Tolleson and drew no Republicans. Espinoza said he has accepted a job with the Salt River Project in community and government relations. He owns a restaurant in...

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that former President Donald Trump’s criticism of the FBI could “potentially” amount to incitement. Saturday at a rally, Trump said, “The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters, controlled by radical left scoundrels lawyers and the media who tell them what to do.”

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Energy problems plagued Ukraine and Europe as much of the Russian-occupied region that's home to a largely crippled nuclear power plant was reported temporarily in blackout Sunday.Only one of six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia facility was connected to the electricity grid, and Russia’s main pipeline carrying natural gas to Germany remained shut down.The fighting in Ukraine and related disputes over pipelines lie behind the electricity and natural gas shortfalls that have worsened as Russia's war in Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24, grinds on for a seventh month.Both issues will take center stage this week. U.N....

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It was a company town, Weed, anchored by a lumber mill and a nearby neighborhood populated by Black workers recruited from the South a century ago to work in the mill. Now both have been devastated by wildfire. The Mill fire tore through parts of the Roseburg Forest Products mill Friday afternoon in Weed and destroyed much of the Lincoln Heights neighborhood, a tight-knit working-class community that sprang to life in the 1920s to house Black millworkers. “Everybody on that street knew everybody,” said Daudi Etter, 50, a lifelong Lincoln Heights resident whose home was destroyed Friday. Standing on the...

The electric vehicle of an unfortunate Washington, DC, tourist ran out of battery in the middle of a remote West Virginia road on Friday. Thankfully, a few unlikely good Samaritans were nearby to rescue the stranded traveler.

A federal judge on Friday denied Steve Bannon’s request for a new trial and dismissal in the contempt of Congress case. “In the end, defendant offers little to demonstrate that the actual testimony be would elicit would have been material to the issues at trial. That falls short of his burden,” U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee wrote. "Defendant also argues that his rights “to confrontation, to effective counsel, and to a fair trial” were also denied. But these arguments are underdeveloped. Defendant never explains the governing legal test for these theories, nor explains how the facts of...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of using energy as a weapon by keeping a critical pipeline to Germany shut down in recent days, exacerbating electricity and natural gas shortfalls ahead of the winter months."Russia wants to destroy the normal life of every European — in all countries of our continent," Zelenskyy said in his nightly address on Saturday."Where Russia cannot do it by force of conventional weapons, it does so by force of energy weapons. It is trying to attack with poverty and political chaos where it cannot yet attack with missiles. This winter, Russia is preparing for a...

Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, one of Nevada’s most accomplished and trusted journalists, was found dead with stab wounds outside his home Saturday morning. German, whose work in Las Vegas spanned four decades, made a career of breaking big stories about everything from organized crime and government malfeasance to political scandals and the Oct. 1 mass shooting.

President Donald Trump on Saturday at a campaign rally for U.S. Senate Republican nominee Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania expressed his disgust for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman's consistent use of a sweatsuit on the campaign trail. Trump said Fetterman dresses "like a teenager getting high in his parents' basement" and called him a Marxist for his views on policing. "This guy is a disaster," Trump said of Fetterman. "He comes in with a sweatsuit on. I've never seen him wear a suit. And dirty, dirty, dirty sweatsuits, really disgusting. You know, I'm a clean freak. I'm a clean freak,...

RCMP are still looking for the suspects, with alerts now covering three provinces Melfort RCMP are searching for two men after for multiple stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation on Sunday morning, and a shelter in place order has been issued for the community. Saskatchewan RCMP say 10 people are dead and at least 15 injured after multiple stabbings in the province on Sunday morning, and two suspects are still on the loose. At a press conference on Sunday afternoon in Regina, the Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer of Saskatchewan RCMP,said police were working with 13 crime scenes and...

Newly released records show two police officers were suspended without pay after berating a 5-year-old boy who had walked away from his elementary school, calling him a 'shepherd of the devil' and threatening him with a beating. The details of the lengthy internal investigation at the Montgomery County Police Department were revealed when the district paid out $275,000 in a settlement after the incident at East Silver Spring Elementary School in Maryland. Officers Dionne Holliday and Kevin Christmon were seen holding down the crying child to a chair and shouting abuse such as 'I hope your momma let me beat...

[...] Fletcher, 34, was abducted on her regular 4 a.m. jog Friday after stalked by Cleotha Abston, who’d waited for her to run past him, the police affidavit alleged. She had run from her home in the fancy Central Gardens neighborhood to a nice area near the University of Memphis campus. Court records show Abston, 38, is a previously convicted kidnapper: he pleaded guilty to especially aggravated kidnapping and robbery in 2001. He was sentenced to 24 years and 11 years in prison respectively, although it is unclear how long he remained incarcerated and if he served his sentences concurrently....

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Russian and Ukrainian officials tentatively agreed on a potential peace deal during negotiations back in April 2022, according to a Foreign Affairs article by Fiona Hill and Angela Stent that cited former US officials. The article reads: “According to multiple former senior US officials we spoke with, in April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement.” The terms of that settlement would have been for Russia to withdraw to the positions it held before launching the invasion on February 24. In exchange, Ukraine would “promise not to seek NATO...

Brigham Young University - owned by the Church of Latter-Day Saints- in Utah has removed fliers advertising resourceful pamphlets for LGBTQ students in welcome bags for news students. The private college's administration said that it removed the pieces of resourceful information so that students could refer to its Office of Belonging, NBC News reported. The brochures had details on regular LGBTQ events being held off campus, as well as local therapeutic resources, scholarship funding and mentorship. They were made by a non-profit called RaYnbow Collection, which is not school-affiliated. Maddison Tenney, a LGBTQ student at BYU, revealed that she was...

Last week, Disney continued down its path to destruction, releasing a new cartoon entitled Little Demon, and it is just as bad as it sounds.The Walt Disney Company, which now owns the FXX Network after acquiring 20th Century Fox.“Disney has announced that FX’s new animated horror-comedy series “Little Demon” will begin streaming on Disney+ in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The series currently debuts new episodes on Thursdays on FXX and streams the next day on Hulu. The show is also expected to arrive on Disney+ in other countries,” according to Disney Plus.The cartoon takes place...

Charles Ingram - The Major Fraud Documentary The Major Fraud On the 9th of September 2001 British army major Charles Ingram got into the hot seat on ITV's biggest game show "who wants to be a millionaire". After winning the jackpot of £1,000,000, he was arrested alongside his wife Diana and fellow contestant Tecwen Whittock on a charge of "procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception". It was alleged by the shows producers that Major Ingram had cheated his way to the top prize by listening for carefully placed coughs by both his wife Diana and fellow contestant...