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The drinking water system in Jackson — Mississippi’s largest city and home to more than 160,000 residents — is failing, state officials announced on Monday. Thousands of Jackson residents already have no or little water pressure, and officials cannot say when adequate, reliable service will be restored. The city water system has been plagued with problems for years, including tens of thousands of residents losing water between one and three weeks during a 2021 winter storm. At a press conference Monday night, Gov. Tate Reeves said the city’s largest water treatment plants may be completely down. “The O.B. Curtis plant...

Guantanamo Bay personnel cited in 4 incidents confirmed by military A detainee sits in his cell at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a 2004 file photo. (CNN) -- A U.S. military investigation has found four incidents in which guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison mishandled the Quran, but said that it was detainees who threw the Muslim holy book in the toilet. The report said it confirmed four times when U.S. personnel at the base mishandled the Quran: guards kicked a detainee's Quran; a guard's urine "splashed" a detainee and his holy book after coming through an...

Just returned from the protest and after-protest hash and rehash.Attending: Doctor Raoul, firebrand, TFine80, davide, and Don (not a freeper).We stood outside the Broadway entrance from 4:45 to about 6:30, holding our signs and shouting our heads off: "Don't buy Newsweek," "Newsweek Lied, People Died," "Flush Newsweek," "Newsweek Lies to America," etc. The signs said pretty much the same, along with "There Are Lies, Damn Lies, and Homicidal 'Reporting,'" "Former Newsweek Reporter Will Lie for Food," and TFine80's sign, which said something like "And you wonder why they hate us!"Many people stopped to chat. There were the usual Manhattan liberals...

Corruption at CNN Peter Collins Mr. Eason Jordan's admission that CNN had to suppress the news from Baghdad in order to report it brought back memories for me. In January 1993, I was in Baghdad as a reporter for CNN on a probationary, three-month contract. Previously, I had been a war reporter for CBS News in Vietnam and East Asia and in Central America for ABC News. I had also made three trips to Baghdad for ABC News before the Gulf War. Now, Bill Clinton was about to be inaugurated and there was speculation that Saddam Hussein might "test" the...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. pollution rules announced on Monday will do little to control "factory farm" manure runoff fouling the nation's waters, environmental groups said. Farm groups say complying with the rules will cost livestock producers $1 billion a year, likely putting some out of business. The measures cover manure handling, require nutrient management plans and mandate more record-keeping. About 15,500 cattle, hog and poultry feedlots will be required to obtain permits by 2006 under the Clean Water Act and write plans for safe disposal of manure, often used as...