NATION & WORLD WATCH
Medical report shows Klobuchar is ‘in very good health’
CHICAGO – Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar is “in very good health,” according to a medical report the Minnesota senator’s campaign released days after she said during a debate over Bernie Sanders’ health records that “you should release your records from your physical.” Klobuchar released a four-page report late Monday based on a January routine physical and medical records. The report shows, among other things, that Klobuchar has mild high cholesterol, with a total of 228, and a defect in one of her heart valves.
Attorney General Barr names new fed prison system director
WASHINGTON – Attorney General William Barr named a new director of the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons, months after shaking up the agency’s top leadership following the death of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Barr named Michael Carvajal as the new director, replacing Kathy Hawk Sawyer. Carvajal is currently the assistant director of the department’s correctional programs division, which handles the daily oversight of the bureau’s correctional services.
Officer shoots man who killed 1 at Missouri community center
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. – A parttime janitor killed a worker at a suburban St. Louis community center crowded with about 150 people, before an officer who was outside the building rushed in and opened fire on the gunman, possibly preventing a much larger tragedy, authorities said Tuesday. The gunman had just been told he was being sent home from work Monday night, “and he reacted with anger,” killing Maria Lucas, 45, the building’s acting supervisor, Maryland Heights police Chief Bill Carson told reporters Tuesday.
East Africa’s huge locust outbreak spreads to Congo
KAMPALA, Uganda – A small group of desert locusts entered Congo, marking the first time the voracious insects were seen in the Central African country since 1944, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency said Tuesday as U.N. agencies warned of a “major hunger threat” in East Africa from the flying pests. Kenya, Somalia and Uganda have battled the swarms in the worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years. A statement from agencies in the matter called the swarms of locusts “a scourge of biblical proportions.”