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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Swimming and boating in open waters akin to raw sewage — that's the prospect facing athletes at next summer's Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro. Follow-up testing by The Associated Press finds Rio's Olympic waterways are as filthy as ever. Brazilian officials who had promised to clean things up in time for the games now acknowledge that won't happen.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmental advocates will try to persuade the Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday that the state's approval of an oil refinery expansion would add to air quality woes in northern Utah. Parts of the state, with their bowl-shaped mountain basins, suffer from some of the nation's worst air in winter.
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' attorney general is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether the Chicago Police Department's practices violate federal and constitutional law. Lisa Madigan says the 2014 shooting death of a black 17-year-old by a white police officer raises serious questions about the use of lawful and excessive force.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Police in Alaska's capital city have not determined whether the city's new mayor died of natural causes or foul play. They have tentatively ruled out gunshots, drugs or suicide in the death of Stephen "Greg" Fisk, who was found in his Juneau home with injuries that police did not describe. Authorities are awaiting autopsy results.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is preparing to posthumously honor a U.S. serviceman who refused German orders to single out Jewish Americans at a POW camp in 1945. Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds told the Nazis, "We are all Jews here," and would not waver, even with a pistol to his head. His captors eventually backed down. Edmonds died in 1985.
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