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Puerto Rico faces water crisis as residents go months without reliable service

[I couldn’t find a mainstream source for this. The press seem far more concerned with the discovery of the old Pan Am wreckage than the people of PR.]

Puerto Rico residents have endured more than two months without reliable running water, a crisis triggered by three major ruptures detected in the island’s 72-inch Superaqueduct pipeline on June 10, 2026, and compounded by decades of aging infrastructure and worsening drought conditions.

Puerto Rico faces water crisis as residents go months without reliable servicehttps://eciks.org/15540-puerto-rico-water-crisis-pipelineOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Former IRS officials call for judge to scrutinize Trump's 'breathtakingly improper' immunity from audits

A group of former officials with the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to scrutinize a controversial deal that granted President Donald Trump and his family sweeping immunity from past tax audits. 

They alleged that the deal to resolve Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax documents in exchange for immunity from past audits was "unprecedented and breathtakingly improper."

Former IRS officials call for judge to scrutinize Trump's 'breathtakingly improper' immunity from auditshttps://abcnews.com/Politics/former-irs-officials-call-judge-scrutinize-trumps-breathtakingly/story?id=134109449Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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Former IRS officials call for judge to scrutinize Trump's 'breathtakingly improper' immunity from audits

A group of former officials with the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to scrutinize a controversial deal that granted President Donald Trump and his family sweeping immunity from past tax audits. 

They alleged that the deal to resolve Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax documents in exchange for immunity from past audits was "unprecedented and breathtakingly improper."

Former IRS officials call for judge to scrutinize Trump's 'breathtakingly improper' immunity from auditshttps://abcnews.com/Politics/former-irs-officials-call-judge-scrutinize-trumps-breathtakingly/story?id=134109449Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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