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The water crisis unfolding in Jackson, Mississippi, was decades in the making: the culmination of crumbling infrastructure, systemic racism and more extreme weather. It’s also a stark warning of trouble to come as climate change piles new stress onto the essential services Americans rely on every day.
In addition to warming up the planet by nearly 1.2° Celsius compared to pre-industrial times, climate change is making precipitation events more intense, and therefore more likely to overwhelm strained systems. Lower-income and minority communities such as Jackson — which is 82% Black and where a quarter of residents live in poverty — bear the brunt of the impacts.
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North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has chosen not to fight a recent decision by the state rules panel blocking its proposed restrictions on party-appointed poll watchers this fall. But the board pledged Friday to do all it can to help county elections officials maintain a safe. orderly voting environment and to deter any voter intimidation. The state’s Rules Review Commission shot down two temporary rule changes last week that would have more clearly outlined the code of conduct for partisan election observers in response to more than a dozen reported violations during the May primaries. Republicans have been leading the charge to block the rule changes since June.
U.S. prosecutors say a tip along with the perseverance of the mother of a woman killed in San Diego in 2016 led to the arrest of her boyfriend who fled to El Salvador and was captured there last month. Raymond McLeod pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in San Diego Superior Court. He is accused of strangling his girlfriend, Krystal Mitchell, 30, a mother of two. His attorney could comment not be reached for comment.
LOS ANGELES — When two Los Angeles police officers confronted Jermaine Petit on an evening in July, one of them quickly realized that reports Petit was carrying a gun were inaccurate.
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NEW YORK — Officials from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration visited Texas on Friday to learn more about the state’s handling of an influx of Latin American migrants, thousands of whom have been sent to New York in recent months, putting a strain on the city’s homeless shelter system.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind has authorized the killing of one wolf because of cattle attacks in northeast Washington. The Capital Press reports the Smackout wolf pack has attacked cattle in Stevens and Pend Oreille counties. The agency says non-lethal deterrents employed by several ranchers have not stopped the predations. The wolf pack crossed the line for the department to consider lethal control when it killed two calves and injured two others during the last two weeks in August. The agency says the decision to remove one wolf increases chances that enough adult wolves will survive to care for juveniles.
CNN White House correspondent John Harwood says he’s exiting the news channel. In a tweet Friday, he says he was proud of the work he'd done. His departure comes amid other significant changes at CNN. Last month, CNN canceled its weekly “Reliable Sources” media analysis show after three decades on the air, and host Brian Stelter left the network. The network is making a move to be less confrontational politically. Harwood came to CNN from CNBC, and previously worked at the St. Petersburg Times and the Wall Street Journal. Harwood said he looked forward to figuring out what's next. CNN didn't reply to a request for comment.
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Mayor of Weed, California, says multiple homes have been destroyed in fire that started at lumber mill Friday afternoon.
Court records show that the West Virginia man charged in a shooting at western Maryland machine shop that killed three coworkers has pleaded not criminally responsible for mental reasons. Joe Louis Esquivel is charged with murder, attempted murder and other offenses in the June 9 shooting at Columbia Machine in Smithsburg and an ensuing shootout with police. The Herald-Mail reports that in a recent filing, Esquivel asserted that at the time of the shootings he lacked the capacity to either “appreciate the criminality of the alleged conduct” or “conform that conduct to the requirements of law” due to a “mental disorder or mental retardation." A judge accepted the plea and approved Hutchison’s request for bifurcated trials.
Californians sweltering in the West’s lengthening heat wave have been asked to reduce air conditioning and cut other electricity use again to prevent stress on the state’s electrical grid that could lead to rolling blackouts. Friday is the third consecutive day of requests by the state’s grid operator for voluntary cutbacks during late afternoon and evening hours to balance supply and demand. The California Independent System Operator says multiple generators have been forced out of service because of the extreme heat, making energy supplies tighter. The grid operator says Thursday saw the highest electrical demand since September 2017, and there's major concern about even higher temperatures Sunday through Tuesday.
The attorney for the Prior Lake, Minnesota, man charged with stabbing a teenager to death and wounding four others on the Apple River in western Wisconsin laid out his client's self-defense claim in court Friday.
The Democratic nominee for a key North Carolina legislative seat this fall is still a candidate following a challenge to her residency in the district. The State Board of Elections ruled on Friday in favor of Valerie Jordan, who is running for the 3rd Senate District seat against Republican Bobby Hanig. Hanig questioned whether Jordan lived in the district. The Democrat-majority board voted 3-2 to reverse the findings of the Currituck County Board of Elections, which declared there was “substantial evidence” against Jordan. Hanig said he's still weighing whether to appeal to Superior Court. The 3rd District election could decide whether Senate Republicans gain a veto-proof majority.
ATLANTA — The Fulton County special grand jury is growing increasingly interested in an alleged election data breach in rural Coffee County as part of its multifaceted criminal investigation into Georgia’s 2020 election.
Screen icon and activist Jane Fonda revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with lymphoma and has started chemotherapy.
A judge in Nicaragua has sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to 49 years in prison for the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Judge Edén Aguilar Castro sentenced Rev. José Leonardo Urbina on Friday to 24 years in prison on two counts of abuse and 25 years for one count of rape. However, Aguilar Castro ruled the Urbina would serve only 30 years. Nicaraguan law limits maximum sentences in most cases to 30 years. Urbina served as a priest at the Perpetuo Socorro parish in the town of Boaco, which is 55 miles (90 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Managua. He was arrested in July on a complaint from the victim’s mother.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Friday that he'll be attending the Detroit Auto Show later this month because he is "a car guy."
PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors this week gave notice to Robert Bowers' legal team that they will use his antisemitic vitriol on Gab.com at his trial as well as evidence from his phone, including a video of Jared Kushner in Jerusalem, images of Bowers making white supremacist gestures and a…
CNN White House correspondent John Harwood announced Friday that he is leaving the network.
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
A Georgia prosecutor says a poll worker was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the Trump campaign. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. She filed court documents on Friday seeking testimony from Willie Lewis Floyd, a director of Black Voices for Trump. Willis said after the 2020 election, Floyd helped arrange a meeting with Georgia poll worker Ruby Freeman. Freeman was falsely accused of voting fraud by Trump. Willis said at the meeting, Freeman was pressured to reveal information under the threat of imprisonment.
Kanye West is back at it.
Here are five things to watch during UCLA's season opener against Bowling Green Saturday at the Rose Bowl:
Authorities say a fast-moving fire in Northern California is threatening hundreds of homes and at least 5,000 residents across three communities have been ordered to leave immediately. The Siskiyou Sheriff’s Office ordered evacuations for the towns of Weed, Lake Shastina and Edgewood after the blaze spread to 500 acres in about an hour Friday. Photos posted on social media showed massive flames in the town of Weed, about 70 miles north of the city of Redding. The fire erupted as crews fight flames in Southern California during a heat wave.
LOS ANGELES — A few days remain before his defense's long-awaited debut at USC, but Alex Grinch's vocal cords have already been through the ringer. What's left of his voice comes out hoarse and gravelly. By this point in his career — entering Year 20 and his fourth stop as defensive coordina…
LOS ANGELES — Bill McGovern's top defender looked slightly deranged, with his eye black smeared like a WWF wrestler.
Here are five things to watch for in the first game of the Lincoln Riley era at USC:
Planned Parenthood Arizona has joined several other providers and restarted abortion care in the state, although it may only be temporary. Clinics stopped abortions in Arizona after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that women do not have a constitutional right to end a pregnancy. They shut down because of legal uncertainty over a pre-statehood law banning almost all abortions and a “personhood” law that they feared could be used to prosecute doctors and nurses. Planned Parenthood so far is only providing abortions in Tucson. At least three independent clinics are also doing abortions. A Tucson judge is deciding whether to allow the pre-statehood ban to be enforced, and a federal judge has blocked the “personhood” law.
Michigan authorities are investigating how a piece of equipment that helps disabled voters mark a ballot wound up for sale online. The machinery was purchased by an election security expert, who then contacted the state to report the issue. Michigan authorities have said the voter assist terminal at issue does not tabulate vote totals. Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Thursday that the state’s elections remain secure, but the case was being investigated. Officials in Wexford County told The Cadillac News that the machine went missing sometime before the August primary. Colfax Township Clerk Becky Stoddard told the paper that the equipment was owned by her township.
Jane Fonda says she has cancer. The 84-year-old actor said in an Instagram post Friday that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and has begun a six-month course of chemotherapy. She says she feels lucky because her cancer is very treatable. Fonda says that unlike many Americans, she has the privilege of the best doctors and treatment. She says she is dealing well with the chemotherapy and she won't allow it to slow down her climate activism. The two-time Oscar winner starred in films including “Klute,” “Barbarella” and “9 to 5,” and on the Netflix show "Grace and Frankie."
Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby is about to become a father, and he is already looking forward to the arrival of his daughter with fiancée Rachel Washburn. Crosby is one of the NFL's most feared pass rushers, but Washburn says it's "cutest thing ever watching him be so excited to be a father.” On and off the field, Crosby has transformed from a fourth-round hopeful into a key leader for Las Vegas.
Russian authorities have designated a beloved rock musician, a key ally of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny and four other people as “foreign agents,” alleging they engaged in unspecified political activities while receiving funding from Ukraine. The term “foreign agent” carries a strong pejorative sense in Russia and implies additional government scrutiny. Among those added to the online “foreign agent” register Friday are Andrey Makarevich, the founder of a cult rock band noted for his previous opposition to Moscow’s actions in eastern Ukraine, and Ivan Zhdanov, the former head of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
A Silicon Valley executive who prosecutors said lied to investors about inventing technology that tested for allergies and COVID-19 using only a few drops of blood was found guilty of health care fraud. The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that a federal jury convicted Mark Schena,of Los Altos, California, of defrauding the government after his company billed Medicare $77 million for fraudulent coronavirus and allergy tests. Prosecutors say the 59-year-old touted that his Sunnyvale-based company, Arrayit Corporation, had the only laboratory in the world that offered “revolutionary microarray technology” that allowed it to test for allergies and the coronavirus with the same finger-stick test kit.
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles clinic diluted more than 2,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and did not inform some patients until months later, according to a report.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed an open records request seeking emails between two journalism professors and a fact-checking organization. Schmitt's office is seeking three years of some emails sent by the professors and the executive director of PolitiFact while they worked at the Columbia Missourian on the University of Missouri campus. A Schmitt spokesman said the office is "trying to get to the bottom of the fact-checking process." University officials say an outside legal firm is determining which emails will be released to the attorney general. Most private media outlets aren't subject to open records requests, but the Missourian could be because it's linked a public university.
Giannis Antetokounmpo simply took over with the game on the line. And as usual, he did it on both ends of the floor. Antetokounmpo scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Tyler Dorsey also finished with 27 points and Greece held off Croatia 89-85 in the opening Group C game for both teams at the EuroBasket tournament on Friday. All 24 teams in the field will play on Saturday as group games continue.
Individual ranchers and the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice challenging recently-passed state water rights laws. The request filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court involves laws passed in the last five years that create a path through the Idaho Department of Water Resources for ranchers to take control of federal public land instream water rights through a state-approved forfeiture procedure. The Idaho Legislature is also seeking to intervene. The Justice Department in a lawsuit filed in June contends that the Idaho forfeiture procedure violates the U.S. and Idaho constitutions.
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