U.S. Customs seizes American nurse’s $42,000 earmarked for Nigerian clinic

"More than six months later, Customs and Border Protection still has not given back her money. This, despite the fact that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of Texas did not bring a civil asset forfeiture case against her or charge her with any crime."

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Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago, results show

"Chicago required the use of lead service lines between street mains and homes until Congress banned the practice in 1986. Yet as Mayor Rahm Emanuel borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to overhaul the city’s public water system, Chicago is keeping lead service lines in the ground."

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