A Minamata disease patient shows his hand in this September 1970 photo taken by Shisei Kuwabara

A potential government shutdown would be" devastating" for Bureau of Prisons employees, according

the Western-backed national anti-corruption bureau( NABU), a requirement for Kyiv to secure more

our fallen Bureau employee," a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said.... Don Bacon, R-Neb., in

Cherri Bustos, D-Ill., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ili., and obtained by ABC News, said." We know that it is critical for incarcerated persons to have access to correspondence while serving their sentences.... Unfortunately, mail is also one of the ways in which drug contraband can be brought into correctional facilities," the lawmakers wrote. One staff member was hospitalized on Friday.... David Greedy/ Getty Images A guard tower and prison yard remains empty at the

It found that 99.99% of votes were not duplicates and were made by age-eligible voters.... Just 2, 775 votes, or 0. 002% of millions cast across eight elections, were from people who died by Election Day.... The Department of State agreed with the guidance and said a training module has been replaced with a certification course. Recommended Pence set to refute Trump in donor speech by condemning Putin ‘apologists’ Pence hits Trump: No room in GOP' for apologists for Putin' Witness: Jan....

And there are crying needs there for improvement. Recommended Watch as Biden delivers remarks on economy in Pennsylvania Even before the coronavirus, federal prisons were plagued by violence, suicide, escapes, understaffing and health concerns.... Other issues--like prisons--have prompted impassioned speeches but less action.... Defendants end up in federal prison usually because their crime crossed state lines, or they violated a specific federal law....

sales to exchange bureaus, saying they have become conduits for graft and illicit flows of money

Dean Fosdick, the journalist with The Associated Press who filed the news alert informing the world of the Exxon Valdez grounding and who directed AP’s coverage of what was then the nation’s worst oil spill, died April 27 in Florida.... At age 17, he joined the U.S. Army to see the world.... Fosdick championed him for the position with AP management in New York, where the wire service is headquartered....

They filed a lawsuit in 2014, saying they were unfairly excluded from a 2009 compensation.... Their symptoms, including numbness of the limbs, were typical of the mercury poisoning and cannot be explained by any other cause, the ruling said.“ I’m so happy that the court made a fair decision, ” said Yoshie Maeda, a 74-year-old who now lives in Osaka.... Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that the government will take appropriate measures to improve medical, welfare and comm