CHICAGO – As part of the Biden administration’s approach to combating escalating gun violence in the US, the Justice Department on Thursday deployed five new arms trafficking “strike forces” to combat the illegal flow of firearms across state lines. Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke to U.S. attorneys and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, … Read more
Forced evacuations were ordered for more than half a dozen parishes near Markleeville. Forest fires that burned in 13 states had burned more than 1,800 square miles. Forest fires in the west will be fueled by intense heat waves this summer. Wildfire near Lake Tahoe, causing hundreds to flee, exploded over 30 square miles on … Read more
A reservoir in Florida containing nearly 400 million gallons of sewage from a former phosphate mine leaked Saturday and sparked hundreds of evacuations, authorities said. The crews “did their best to control the runoff of contaminated water into a creek at Piney Point, Florida, the site of a former phosphate mine south of Tampa,” said … Read more