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on January 11, 2017 in Gun Page World News

Chicago Police Board Chair: Windy City Needs Federal Help to Turn Tide on Crime

by AWR Hawkins During a January 7 interview on NPR, Chicago Police Board Chairwoman Lori Lightfoot said Chicago cannot end the city’s violence alone — they need federal help. Chicago’s Lightfoot “also chairs Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Police Accountability Task Force.” According to NPR, Lightfoot said: We need to have more federal gun prosecutions in Chicago. Our federal partners from the U.S. attorney’s office, the ATF, the FBI need to be much more invested in this overall strategy. Chicago Police Department cannot tackle this issue by itself. Lighfoot’s statement came less than a week after President-elect Donald Trump tweeted: Chicago murder… View Article

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on January 10, 2017 in World News

Storms Add 350 Billion Gallons of Water to CA Reservoirs

by Adelle Nazarian California’s crippling five-year drought has come to a temporary halt in the northern part of the state, as roughly 350 billion gallons of water came pouring into the region’s biggest reservoirs over the past few days, boosting storage to levels not seen in years. However, the drought still remains in effect in Southern California. According to the East Bay Times, there is so much water in the reservoirs that dam operators were forced to release water to reduce flood risks. “California is a dry state and probably always will be in most years, but we certainly don’t have… View Article

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on January 10, 2017 in World News

Illinois Confirms Eight Refugees Diagnosed with Active TB Upon Arrival

by Michael Patrick Leahy The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed that eight refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB)  “during the initial health screening or within 90 days of the refugee arrival” in the four years between 2012 and 2015. This data was not included in the Reported Tuberculosis in the United States documents published annually by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) between 2012 and 2015. Those reports confirmed 1,565 cases of active TB diagnosed among refugees in the 46 states that reported immigration status upon first arrival among foreign-born residents of the United States diagnosed with active TB. Illinois… View Article

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