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Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, has been arrested in connection with a leak of purported highly classified documents on Ukraine and dozens of other subjects that has exposed the challenges of safeguarding sensitive U.S. information and tested ties with some of America’s closest allies. Federal agents took Mr. Teixeira into custody at his home in Dighton, Mass., on Thursday afternoon. Television footage showed armed personnel leading a male with red shorts and green shirt with his hands cuffed behind his back.

☆ Five Dead After Bank Shooting in Louisville, Ky., Police Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Four Dead After Bank Shooting in Louisville, Ky., Police Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Baltimore Archdiocese Long Failed to Protect Children Abused by Catholic Priests, State Report Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Scott Calvert | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An investigation of the Archdiocese of Baltimore is the latest effort to document clerical sexual abuse in the U.S.BALTIMORE—Scores of priests and other people affiliated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused hundreds of children over more than 60 years, and church officials often protected the perpetrators while keeping their crimes a secret, Maryland’s attorney general said in a new report. Wednesday’s report from Attorney General Anthony Brown alleges that 156 people—including priests and archdiocese personnel—abused more than 600 youths, causing lasting psychological trauma for survivors.

☆ Migrants Surge Into Maine and Beyond, Far From Southern Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Jon Kamp | Alicia A. Caldwell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PORTLAND, Maine—While traveling north to the U.S. from Brazil, Teresa Matondo, an asylum seeker originally from Angola, said she learned about Maine’s largest city. “There were people talking about this town Portland, where if you got there, they would help,” the 35-year-old said. She entered the U.S. in March with her three children.

☆ Congress Moves to Add Fentanyl Additive ‘Tranq’ to Controlled Drugs List
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Jon Kamp | Julie Wernau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street JournalA street drug sample that a chemist later put through a mass spectrometer to identify its chemical makeup. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators and representatives plans to introduce legislation to designate a veterinary tranquilizer worsening the fentanyl crisis as a controlled substance, aiming to help law-enforcement authorities crack down on illegal use. Xylazine, known to some users as “tranq,” is approved only for use in animals such as horses and cattle. But dealers have been adding it to the fentanyl supply at an alarming pace, potentially to reduce their costs and lengthen the high for users.

☆ Fentanyl Fuels Surge in Deaths Among Those Who Are Homeless
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Jon Kamp | Dan Frosch | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The nation’s drug-overdose crisis is taking a heavy toll on homeless people, with data from hard-hit places such as Los Angeles and New York showing a surge in deaths, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. The potent synthetic opioid fentanyl is a major factor, heightening the overdose risk among homeless drug users who researchers say are often disconnected from treatment and other health services. New national data also show that overall deaths among homeless people, who have for years suffered a higher mortality risk than the broader population, climbed markedly during the pandemic.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas—Some 1,000 trucks a day arrive from Mexico at a border checkpoint here near the southern tip of Texas. Their first stop is a white-and-yellow painted metal portal where energy beamed at the trucks produces X-ray images to try to spot fentanyl and other contraband. Across the southern border, most U.S.-bound trucks and nearly all passenger vehicles are generally scanned selectively if they are pulled aside. Mexican cartels have long profited from these odds while smuggling fentanyl and other narcotics. Their illicit trade propelled the U.S. to a record of nearly 107,000 fatal overdoses in 2021, the most recent year of full data.

☆ Ron DeSantis, Florida Officials Seek to Dismiss Lawsuit From Martha’s Vineyard Migrants
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A group of migrants was flown to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts last year. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials said a federal lawsuit over migrants the state flew from Texas to Massachusetts last year should be dismissed, arguing in legal filings the Boston court lacks jurisdiction and that migrants were told where the planes were going. Perla Huerta, a woman migrants said recruited them onto the Martha’s Vineyard-bound flights, filed a separate motion in the Boston federal court Tuesday to dismiss the case. The lawsuit was brought by some of the 49 migrants and an advocacy group in September. The contractor Florida hired to arrange the flights and the company’s chief executive also asked for the case to be dismissed.

☆ Why the Covid-19 Death Toll in the U.S. Is Still Rising
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The U.S. has dodged a major wintertime Covid-19 surge as the pandemic continues to recede into the background. But the death toll is still growing. The U.S., which recently topped 1.1 million Covid-19 deaths since the pandemic began, continues to record several hundred more each day, death-certificate data show. The people who are dying remain old, often with underlying health issues such as heart and lung ailments, the data indicate.

☆ Why the U.S. Covid-19 Death Toll Is Still Rising
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A veterinary tranquilizer that can cause serious wounds for regular users is spreading menace within the illicit drug supply. Xylazine, authorized only for animals, is one ingredient in an increasingly toxic brew of illicit drugs that killed a record of nearly 107,000 people in the U.S. in 2021. It is typically mixed with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that itself has broadly infiltrated U.S. drug supply, including in supplies of cocaine and methamphetamine. Taken together, the volatile mixing means drug users often don’t know what’s in the substances they take.

☆ Rise in Homelessness Hits Several New England States
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Jon Kamp | Photography Philip Keith For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Inside a cavernous armory building in Rhode Island’s capital city, up to 185 people have recently gathered each night to get out of the cold. The federal- and state-funded site in Providence was slated to handle up to 66 people when it opened in mid-December to provide warmth for unhoused people. It has consistently seen much higher numbers, said Eileen Hayes , chief executive at Amos House, the nonprofit running the site. “More and more of our folks are falling behind and falling through the cracks,” she said.

☆ Dozens of Major Shootings Sweep the U.S. in January
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Two mass shootings in California in recent days have added to the dozens of other major episodes of gun violence across the U.S. at the start of the year. Rising gun violence and a dizzying pace of mass public shootings in recent years have pushed concerns about public safety to the forefront for many Americans. It remains an open question how 2023 will play out, but several weeks in, there have already been two major public shootings that together left at least 18 dead along with a string of other often-deadly shootings involving multiple victims.

☆ U.S. Covid-19 Pandemic Enters Fourth Year With Hospitalizations on the Decline
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Three years after health authorities announced the first known Covid-19 case in the U.S., the virus behind the disease remains persistent but thus far hasn’t triggered the severity of the waves seen in prior winters. A recent climb in hospitalizations and Covid-19 wastewater readings—two key metrics for spotting trends—appears to have stalled following the quick rise of the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant. The U.S. was gripped in significantly more deadly waves at this point in the last two winters, though currently there are still hundreds of deaths reported each day.

☆ New Covid-19 Subvariant, XBB.1.5, Takes Over in Parts of U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Jon Kamp | Brianna Abbott | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A new offshoot of the Covid-19 Omicron variant is taking over in parts of the U.S., especially in the Northeast, amid signs of rising infection numbers after the winter holidays. Virus experts and doctors say a combination of holiday gatherings and the arrival of the XBB.1.5 subvariant is causing more Covid-19 infections, as reflected in rising hospitalization numbers and a recent climb in wastewater virus levels.

☆ New Covid-19 Subvariant, XBB. 1.5, Takes Over in Parts of U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Jon Kamp | Brianna Abbott | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A new offshoot of the Covid-19 Omicron variant is taking over in parts of the U.S., especially in the Northeast, amid signs of rising infection numbers after the winter holidays. Virus experts and doctors say a combination of holiday gatherings and the arrival of the XBB. 1.5 subvariant is causing more Covid-19 infections, as reflected in rising hospitalization numbers and a recent climb in wastewater virus levels.

☆ New Covid-19 Subvariant, XBB. 1.5, Rises Quickly in Parts of U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Jon Kamp | Brianna Abbott | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Passengers disembarking from international flights took anonymous Covid-19 tests for study purposes at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Wednesday. A new offshoot of the Covid-19 Omicron variant is quickly taking over in parts of the U.S., especially in the Northeast, amid signs of rising infection numbers after the winter holidays. Virus experts and doctors say a combination of holiday gatherings and the arrival of the XBB. 1.5 subvariant is causing more Covid-19 infections, as reflected in rising hospitalization numbers and a recent climb in wastewater virus levels.

☆ The Youngest Victims of the Fentanyl Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brianna Roush woke from a nap at home on a Sunday afternoon last January to find her 20-month-old son, Leightyn, disoriented and moaning. By the time she got him to the hospital, he wasn’t breathing. Medical staff tried for an hour to revive him before pronouncing him dead.

☆ Covid-19’s Spread in China Might Tell Us How Deadly Omicron Really Is
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Brianna Abbott | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Covid-19’s rapid spread in China has prompted reports of crowded hospitals and inundated crematoria. It could also help answer whether Omicron is truly a milder version of the virus. Iterations of the Omicron variant are spreading rapidly in China after officials relaxed zero-Covid controls in place for most of the pandemic. Pharmacies say they are out of fever medications and hospitals are strained, employees have said. Chinese officials have reported a modest rise in Covid-19 cases and deaths, but some public-health experts and relatives of the deceased suspect a higher toll.

☆ U.S. Life Expectancy Fell to Lowest Level Since 1996
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Julie Wernau | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

U.S. life expectancy fell to 76.4 years in 2021, down from 77 years in 2020. Life expectancy in the U.S. fell again last year to the lowest level since 1996, federal data showed, after Covid-19 and opioid overdoses drove up the number of deaths. Covid-19 was the third-leading cause of death for a second consecutive year in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, and a rising number of drug-overdose deaths also dragged down life expectancy. Overdose deaths have risen fivefold over the past two decades.

☆ 6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Northern California, Leaving Two Dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jim Carlton | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Earthquake damage could be seen Tuesday at the old Humboldt Creamery building in Loleta, Calif.A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck along a sparsely populated section of Northern California’s coast early Tuesday, leaving two people dead, about a dozen injured and widespread damage and power outages in Humboldt County, home to some 136,000 people. Officials from the Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services said Tuesday afternoon the two victims, aged 72 and 83, died of medical emergencies believed to be tied to the quake, including an apparent heart attack.

☆ Viruses Are Coming for Your Holiday Season, Health Officials Warn
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Jon Kamp | Brianna Abbott | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Thanksgiving spurred on more respiratory infections in an already busy virus season. The coming holidays could be worse, public-health officials say. The flu continues to surge at the highest level seen in years and Covid-19 infection levels have recently increased around the U.S. heading into the winter holidays, wastewater and federal hospitalization data show.

☆ Maine Lobster Controversy Pinches Biden’s State Dinner With Macron
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Kristina Peterson | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—It wasn’t the cheese selection that became the most contentious item on the menu at President Biden’s first state dinner Thursday night with French President Emmanuel Macron . Instead, the butter-poached Maine lobster landed the White House in hot water. The state’s lobster fishery has been at the center of legal and regulatory fights over whether its equipment harms endangered North Atlantic right whales—a political battle that began boiling over after two conservation groups warned consumers against buying Maine lobsters. Last month, Whole Foods Market paused its sales of the state’s iconic crustacean, saying it doesn’t meet the grocer’s sustainability standards.

☆ Alleged Recruiter, Florida Officials Added to Lawsuit Over Migrant Flights
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Attorneys for migrants flown to Massachusetts under a Florida program in September have added several defendants and new allegations to a federal lawsuit challenging the operation. The amended complaint, filed Tuesday in Boston, newly named defendant Perla Huerta as the alleged lead recruiter in Texas, where migrants were enlisted for the two flights. It also added the contractor that arranged the flights, Vertol Systems Company Inc., and its chief executive, James Montgomerie; Lawrence Keefe, Florida’s public safety czar; and James Uthmeier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ‘s chief of staff.

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