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Month: November 2022

Drug lord ‘La Barbie’ is not currently in federal custody, Bureau of Prisons says

By Florencia Trucco, CNN Mexican-American drug trafficker Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias “La Barbie,” is “not currently in federal custody” in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Prisons told CNN. Valdez Villarreal’s name appears as “not in BOP custody” on the agency’s website, CNN confirmed Tuesday. When asked why, bureau spokesperson Benjamin O’Cone declined to

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Judge OKs federal intervention in struggling water system

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has won a federal judge’s approval to carry out a rare intervention to improve the precarious water system in Mississippi’s capital city, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday, months after the system’s partial failure. The department filed the proposal for

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More than 70 water agencies in California could face water shortages in the coming months, state report shows

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Nearly 20% of California’s urban water agencies reported they could see significant water shortages in the coming months as the state braces for a potential fourth consecutive year of drought. After surveying urban water agencies representing roughly 90% of the state’s population, the California Department of Water Resources early this week

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