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Several days of powerful storms walloped northwest Indiana, killing at least seven people and displacing about 1,000. The storms brought record rainfall that flooded several communities.
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kaitlin Washburn, reporter with the Chicago Sun-Times , about the ongoing power outages in northwest Indiana and how they're affecting residents' lives.
NYTimes – US Several days of powerful storms walloped northwest Indiana, killing at least seven people and displacing about 1,000. The storms brought record rainfall that flooded several communities.
Several days of powerful storms walloped northwest Indiana, killing at least seven people and displacing about 1,000. The storms brought record rainfall that flooded several communities.
Two weeks after extreme weather in Northwest Indiana, more than 10,000 are still without power. Some residents worry that Gary, a predominantly Black city, may be the last to see the lights go on.
NPR – US A round of storms impacted the region on Aug. 11
NYTimes – US Gov. Mike Braun called on the local utility to “match the urgency” of Gary area residents who have had to endure an outage approaching its second week.
NYTimes – US Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
NPR – US New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to investigate an alleged gang-rape at a Cornell University fraternity house. Hochul said she no longer has faith in the local district attorney's handling of the case. The appointment follows renewed scrutiny of a 2024 university investigation and the release of documents in which the accuser said she felt "like bait."
NPR – US The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.
NYTimes – US Tennessee's attempt to execute death row inmate Christa Pike by lethal injection was botched, and she survived, her attorneys said. The incident revived debate over botched lethal injections in the U.S. and echoed a May attempt on Tony Carruthers, when the state said it could not find a suitable vein. Pike's attorneys called the execution "torturous" and said they had warned it could be botched.
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