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Officials say there’s no hope of more survivors after paper mill rupture

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A second person who was injured when a large chemical tank ruptured at a Washington state paper mill has died, authorities said Wednesday, bringing the presumed death toll to 11, including nine workers still missing in one of the deadliest U.S. workplace accidents in ...

South Carolina Senate rejects Trump’s call to redraw map for midterm elections

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump's push to reshape congressional districts ahead of the November elections suffered a double setback Tuesday, as South Carolina senators declined to do so and a federal court blocked a Republican-backed map in Alabama. As early in-person voting ...

Implosion at pulp and paper mill leaves 10 injured, unknown number dead

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — The implosion of a chemical tank at a pulp and paper mill in southwestern Washington state on Tuesday injured at least 10 people, while an undisclosed number of others were killed or remained missing, authorities said. In a joint statement, Nippon Dynawave Packaging ...

Justice Department scrubs website of news about Jan. 6 defendants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions "partisan propaganda." The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, ...