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the Department of Justice is opening a civil
rights investigation into the city of Memphis,
Tennessee
and its police department.
This comes after Tyree Nichols was fatally beaten
by five officers in January of this year.
The attorneys did cite nichols' death but said the
investigation will look at broader accusations of misconduct.
The
doj looks to uncover whether Memphis PD makes illegal
stops uses excessive force or engages in racially discriminatory.
Policing.
40% of the US currently under heat alerts affecting 140 million Americans.
The northeast and Midwest are expecting sweltering
temperatures in the coming days along with
the southwest which is still in the grip of a record shattering heat wave.
This July is shaping up to be the hottest month on record.
That's according to the United Nations World
Meteorological Organization.
The secretary general of the WMO wrote in a statement,
the extreme weather in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change.
Climate action is not a luxury but a must.
And with that heat wave impacting many Americans today,
President Joe Biden announced new plans to help
protect workers and communities from high temperatures.
Take a look.
The Acting Secretary of Labor will work with her team
to intensify enforcement,
increasing inspections in high risk
industries like construction and agriculture.
This work builds on the national standard.
The labor department is already developing for
workforce and workplace heat safety rules.
Meanwhile
the US forest service will award more than
$1 billion in grants to help cities and towns
plant trees
that in the long term will help repel the heat and expand access to green spaces.
So families have a place to go to cool off.
Additionally,
the administration will spend over $150 million
to increase access to drinking water and
$7 million to help improve weather forecasts
and better predict extreme heat events.
A judge in Michigan must decide whether a school shooter
who killed four students and wounded seven others in 2021
should ever be allowed to leave prison.
Ethan Crumley was only 15 when he carried out the attack.
So the judge is required to evaluate whether he should spend life in prison or if
he can ever be eligible for parole that
is required after 2012 Supreme Court decision.
Prosecutors argue that Crumley cannot be rehabilitated while his defense argues
his age and home life played a part in his actions.
The hearing is expected to last through at
least Friday and possibly stretch into next week.
Police in Glendale,
Arizona confirmed a teenager missing since 2019 has been found.
Alicia Navarro who disappeared when she was just 14 years old,
walked into a Montana Police Department yesterday and
identified herself saying she had not been harmed.
She was over 1000 miles from home.
Navarro's mother,
Jessica Nunez updated the Facebook page she used while searching for her daughter
to confirm that she has been found and the two are reunited.
Police said Navarro is safe and healthy and that she is not in any legal trouble.
Three marines who were found dead inside a vehicle over the weekend in Hempstead,
North Carolina died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Police have confirmed
the men's bodies were found on Sunday inside
a car near a speedway convenience store.
The Pender County Sheriff's office had earlier received a
call from one of the men's mothers who said her
son was stationed at Camp Lejeune and never made
it on his flight to Oklahoma the night before.
Police say no foul play is suspected. No drugs were found in the vehicle.
Federal prosecutors have dropped a finance campaign charge
yesterday in crypto executive and FX founder Sam Bank
Fried's case.
The conspiracy to make unlawful campaign contributions charge could have added
to 2 to 5 years to Bank Fried's prison time.
If convicted prosecutors allege he funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in
bipartisan campaign money through two co
conspirators to avoid campaign contribution limits.
Prosecutors also asked a federal judge to put Bank
man Fried in jail ahead of his October trial.
The judge has imposed a temporary gag order in the case as
he considers the prosecutor's request to keep Bank man freed in jail.
California,
Governor Gavin Newsom has offered to help negotiate a deal to end the
Hollywood strike that halted most film and TV production across the US.
So far,
neither actors or executives have shown formal interest
in bringing news some in on negotiations.
His advisor advisor said the governor is quote,
deeply concerned about the impact of a prolonged strike on the state's economy.
Adding that thousands of jobs directly or indirectly depend on Hollywood.
Getting back to work.
The last writer strike in California more than a decade
ago reportedly hurt the state's economy by $2 billion.