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Lawyer blames Mississippi governor for firing amid probe of misspent welfare funds

The attorney fired amid his investigation into misspent welfare funds in Mississippi accused Gov. Tate Reeves (R) of seeking to thwart the probe, which involved high-profile figures including former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R).

The Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS) on Friday fired Brad Pigott, a former U.S. attorney who was hired to reclaim millions of dollars in misspent welfare funds, some $5 million of which went to build a collegiate volleyball stadium, according to Mississippi Today.

“I believe I was fired as a result of a pattern of orders from the Mississippi governor’s office concerning protecting an entity, called the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation, from any responsibility in this matter,” Pigott told the New York Times.

Pigott told Mississippi Today that MHDS did not give a reason for firing him, although officials explained it was not due to a lack of quality with his legal work.

“All I did, and I believe all that caused me to be terminated from representing the department or having anything to do with the litigation, was to try to get the truth about all of that,” the attorney told the news outlet.

“I am sure they can find a loyal Republican lawyer to do the work,” he added.

A spokeswoman for Reeves told the Times there were “many capable lawyers who can handle the work necessary to recover stolen TANF funds,” adding, “it was decided that a semiretired solo practitioner was not the right person to sign on for more work.”

MHDS Director Bob Anderson on Saturday claimed the firing was because Pigott did not notify them before he filed the subpoena against the USM Athletic Foundation for communications involving Favre and Bryant.

However, emails reviewed by Mississippi Today show Pigott sent them an email with the draft subpoena 10 days before filing it.

The missing welfare funds first came to light in 2020, when it was revealed the state misspent or stole more than $90 million from 2017 to 2019, during Bryant’s term as governor.

The volleyball scheme centers on nonprofit founder Nancy New, who pled guilty earlier this year to misspending millions in welfare money, including $5 million for the stadium on behalf of Favre, a former star at Southern Miss.

Pigott told Mississippi Today he was blocked by “political operatives” from including the volleyball stadium money in a complaint filed against 38 people in May seeking to recoup some $24 million in welfare money.

Favre also allegedly received more than $1 million in another welfare scheme in which he was paid for speeches he never gave. Favre has started repaying those funds back.

Pigott was hired last year to investigate the case.

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Biden boasts as gas prices drop to below $4.50 per gallon

President Biden touted falling gas prices in a series of tweets over the weekend as the national average for a gallon of gas fell below $4.50.

The national average for a gallon of gas is now $4.36, according to the transportation organization American Automobile Association (AAA), down from a high of $5 a gallon last month.

Biden, who is struggling with slumping approval ratings, tweeted first on Friday that gas prices fell 60 cents over the past 38 days, marking the fifth straight week of decline.

He followed that up with a tweet on Sunday, noting it was now 65 cents over 40 days.

“I grew up in a family where if the price of gas went up, we felt it,” the president tweeted on his personal account. “Gas prices have dropped since mid-June and should continue to come down in the days and weeks ahead. I know those extra dollars and cents mean something.”

Gas prices have soared since last year, reaching record highs over the spring and summer and climbing above $6 a gallon in states such as California, Hawaii, Alaska, Nevada and Washington.

Biden’s approval ratings have tumbled to around 39 percent, in part due to frustration with inflation, as Republicans seize on the economic woes ahead of the November midterms.

The Biden administration has largely blamed supply chain disruptions, Russia’s war in Ukraine and oil companies for the high gas prices and inflation spikes.

“With oil prices coming down 20% from June highs, it’s unacceptable that prices at the pump have only come down by half as much,” Biden tweeted on Saturday. “It’s time for oil and gas companies to pass these lower costs on to Americans.”

In a press release last week, AAA said West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil fell to $102.26, down from a high of $109 per barrel over the spring.

Demand for gas only slightly increased last week and was closer to July 2020 levels, AAA noted. At the same time, the number of crude oil barrels jumped by 3.5 million barrels to a total of 228 million barrels, “signaling that low demand led to growth in inventory last week.”

“If gas demand remains low as stocks increase, alongside a continuing reduction in crude prices, drivers will likely see pump prices decline,” the organization’s analysts wrote.

Biden on Saturday said the falling gas prices have saved the average American about $30 a month.

“An extra 60 cents a gallon back in your pocket is meaningful,” the president tweeted. ” It’s breathing room.”

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These US cities broke heat records on Sunday

Record high temperatures were set in at least four U.S. cities over the weekend amid a deadly heat wave that spanned much of the country.

The National Weather Service (NWS) warned on Sunday of “searing heat” across the Mid-Atlantic and northeast regions of the country, with 100 degree or higher temperatures also expected in Kansas, Oklahoma, southern Missouri and northern Arkansas this week.

Although most of the nation struggled with heatwaves starting last week, the northeastern U.S. bore the brunt over the weekend.

These cities broke records:

Boston

The NWS station in Boston, Mass., reported that Boston recorded a temperature of 99 degrees on Sunday, slightly higher than the 98 degree record set in 1933.

The local NBC affiliate reported that temperatures hit 100 degrees at Logan Airport.

“Sunday Scorchaaa in the City!” tweeted meteorologist David Bagley.

Providence

Providence, R.I., logged a temperature of 96 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, surpassing the previous high set in 1933 and tied in 1987, according to the Boston NWS station.

However, the city was still at least two days short of its all-time record of seven consecutive days above 90 degrees.

Newark

Newark, N.J., set a new daily temperature record at 100 degrees on Sunday. It was the fifth consecutive day of the temperature reaching 100 degrees in the city, creating the longest running streak ever recorded.

And Sunday had cooled down since earlier in the week. Temperatures hit 108 degrees in Newark on Friday.

Reading

Reading, Pa., also notched a high-heat record for the day, at 97 degrees.

Philadelphia, about an hour away, was expecting a possible record-breaking 100 degrees on Sunday, but fell short with temps topping out at 98 degrees, according to the NWS.

Heatwaves began spreading across the U.S. last week, putting more than 85 million Americans under an excessive heat watch or heat advisory.

Heat is the deadliest weather-related event in the U.S., responsible for killing 190 Americans last year, according to NWS.

Heatwaves, defined by a period of two days or more with unusually hot weather by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are typically caused by trapped, warm air that simmers over a geographical area and bakes it like an oven. The trapped warm air is created by high pressure systems moving in and forcing warm air down.

In the south, Texas and other states are trying to stay cool as hot temperatures are expected to continue into the next week.

The Pacific northwest is also bracing for prolonged deadly heat waves this week, with NWS stations in Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash., readying for temperatures in the high 80s to low 90s through Friday.

In California, heat helped fuel the Oak Fire, which has burned through nearly 15,000 acres in Mariposa County and is zero percent contained, according to California’s fire agency. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a state of emergency in Mariposa County on Saturday.

Last week, record high temperatures were also set in Europe, including the United Kingdom and France.

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Moldova 'very worried' about Russia invasion: 'nobody is safe'

Moldova’s prime minister on Sunday said she is “very worried” about Russia invading her country next, as it makes advances in Ukraine’s east and south, near the Moldova-Ukraine border.

“It’s a hypothetical scenario for now, but if the military actions move further into the southwestern part of Ukraine and toward Odessa, then of course we are very worried,” Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. After an initial defeat in the western part of the country, Russia has made significant gains in the east, including the capture of key cities in the Luhansk region.

Russian troops are hoping to seize the eastern Donbas, the industrial heartland of Ukraine, and secure a land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula. Doing so would give them access to Transnistria, a breakaway region supported by Russia that declared itself independent after a brief military conflict in 1992.

“We are very worried, especially considering that troops are on the territory of the secessionist Transnistria region,” Gavrilița said. “We are doing everything possible to maintain peace and stability and to ensure that the fighting does not escalate.”

Russia’s war, waged in part to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, has also backfired on Putin, with both Sweden and Finland now fast-tracking their own applications to join the security alliance.

Moldova is a tiny nation with a population of around 2.5 million people. It was a part of the Soviet Union until 1991, breaking away from the communist bloc as it was dissolving.

During the war in Ukraine, Moldova has sheltered around half a million Ukrainian refugees, at one time hosting more refugees per capita than any other country.

Moldova’s fear of a Russian invasion heightened in March, when a leaked photo showed Putin ally and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko pointing at Moldova on a battle map.

Gavrilița on Sunday said Putin’s aggression has created a “difficult situation” for other European countries, not just Moldova.

“If a country can start an annexation war without any regard for international law, then in this sense, nobody is safe,” she said. “I think a lot of countries are worried.”

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Congress must close Medicare gaps in access to non-drug pain management

As our population ages and the opioid crisis continues to ravage our communities, increasing access to high-value, non-pharmacologic options for managing pain and chronic disease must be a top priority for Congress. Current Medicare coverage does not reflect the current guidelines for treatment of pain, and a straight-forward first step is to improve coverage for the 64 million Americans enrolled to better include chiropractic and acupuncture. 

Bipartisan solutions have already been introduced, but with the midterm elections approaching, the window for Congress to address current limitations within the Medicare program through reconciliation is closing. 

Chiropractic care and acupuncture are recommended in numerous best practice guidelines as first-line treatments for pain. Both are increasingly covered in commercial health plans, and patients are seeking non-drug approaches to managing their pain and chronic diseases.  

However, arbitrary limits on Medicare coverage mean that seniors — arguably one of the most important groups to consider when thinking about pain and chronic disease — don’t have access to the evidence-based, recommended care they deserve. The time is now for Congress to pass bipartisan legislation to create greater choice and better outcomes for patients, as well as projected cost savings to the system. 

Current Limitations  

The American College of Physicians (along with other reputable organizations) recommends both spinal manipulation and exercise (commonly delivered by chiropractic physicians) and acupuncture for common back pain, prior to prescription or over the counter drugs. One would expect Medicare coverage to reflect the current guidelines, ensuring our seniors have convenient, affordable access to the safest and most effective care. Unfortunately, that is not the case: arbitrary limits on interventions and visits restrict access for beneficiaries.  

For example, chiropractic coverage in Medicare consists of a single service: spinal manipulation. Examinations, clinically necessary imaging, rehabilitation, and exercise are not covered benefits if delivered by a chiropractic physician, although they are covered if delivered by another provider type. This results in disrupted or delayed care, and higher out of pocket costs for the beneficiary.  

Like chiropractic, early treatment with acupuncture for spinal pain has been shown to decrease the need for advanced imaging, invasive procedures, and opioid medications. However, beneficiaries are unable to receive acupuncture from most licensed acupuncturists, arguably the most expert in delivering this service. (CMS limits authorized providers to physicians or “auxiliary personnel” who must be supervised by a physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner.) 

Lack of access to these safe, recommended interventions steers back pain patients in particular toward lower value services like advanced imaging and invasive interventions including surgery, and increases the risk of an acute problem developing into a chronic one. 

Closing these gaps would address a discrepancy between the current Medicare program and the Affordable Care Act, which stipulates that group health plans and health insurance issuers may not discriminate against a health care provider acting within the scope of their license under state law. Congress has a responsibility to update and reform these programs to align with the intention of this non-discrimination provision, especially as they seek to extend the sunsetting subsidies to keep costs low. 

Legislative Proposals to Expand Medicare Coverage 

Greater access to chiropractic and acupuncture services can lead to a reduction in visits to primary care providers, resulting in substantial savings in annual costs in the Medicare program, lower per beneficiary costs among patients within Medicare, and projected cost savings to the system.  

Bipartisan legislative measures at the federal level have already been introduced and are viable options for closing existing coverage gaps within Medicare: 

• S. 4042 / H.R. 2654, the Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act – this bill would expand Medicare coverage to include more chiropractic care options, which will lead to improved spine care among older adults, increased access to non-opioid pain management, and overall cost savings in the Medicare system. This bill does not expand benefits within Medicare; rather, it allows beneficiaries to seek care from chiropractic physicians for covered services that fall within their scope of practice, expanding patient choice and the health care provider workforce.  
• H.R. 4803, the Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act – this bill will allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to recognize licensed acupuncturists as Medicare providers, resulting in increased and expanded access to acupuncture services for the treatment of chronic back pain. This will make it possible for beneficiaries to see a licensed acupuncturist for care, rectifying current coverage that discriminates against a licensed class of providers and significantly limits access, essentially constituting a shadow benefit. 

Expanding coverage of chiropractic and acupuncture services are simple yet necessary policy solutions to increase access to care, decrease opioid utilization and make healthcare more affordable. It would be shortsighted of Congress to debate ways to reform Medicare and expand coverage options without addressing these coverage gaps. Our seniors deserve access to the safest, most effective care for pain and chronic diseases. Chiropractic care and acupuncture are sought-after and recommended; Congress must make them accessible.  

Michele Maiers, DC, MPH, PhD, is executive director of Research and Innovation at Northwestern Health Science University 

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Lawmakers step up pressure on administration over monkeypox

Congressional leaders have begun raising the heat on the Biden administration over monkeypox, demanding to know what its plan is for handling the outbreak as cases continue to rise and treatments still remain out of reach for many who are affected.

Top-ranking members in the House and Senate, on both sides of the aisle, have asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra for answers on what his department is doing to handle the monkeypox outbreak, with several lawmakers questioning what they perceive to be a failed response.

Nearly 2,600 cases have been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as of Friday. These numbers are almost certainly an undercount due to the limited testing capabilities for monkeypox, one of the issues that lawmakers have brought up in recent weeks.

Last week, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, called the U.S. response to the virus “disturbing” in a letter to Becerra, arguing that the administration has all the tools it needs to better address the outbreak.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who serve as chairwomen for top congressional health panels, both sent letters to the HHS secretary this week listing their concerns.

A group of 50 House Democrats also issued a letter to President Biden, urging him to declare a public health emergency due to monkeypox.

“Doing so would make available a number of authorities to accelerate the federal response and tap into additional resources to procure vaccines and distribute them swiftly across the country,” they wrote.

Murray and Maloney both said that they will request briefings from HHS by early next month.

While there has so far been no word on whether Becerra will sit for a briefing, HHS released an updated fact sheet on the monkeypox response on Thursday. The agency said it has distributed around 200,000 Jynneos vaccines so far and is expecting roughly 800,000 more later this summer.

“Over the coming days and weeks, HHS will continue to strengthen and accelerate its strategy on combatting monkeypox and work closely with public health officials and stakeholders in high-risk communities to get vaccines, testing, and treatments out to communities across the country,” said the department.

The agency acknowledged that testing capabilities were limited at the start of the outbreak and said the U.S. testing capacity has now risen to 80,000 tests per week.

“Because there is no rapid test for monkeypox, it is particularly important that patients who present at clinics are not turned away from testing,” Murray said in her letter to Becerra this week.

While the supply of vaccines increases, there are still obstacles preventing many from accessing ​treatments like antivirals. Critics have been quick to point out that the people who have been able to obtain treatment have usually been more privileged than those who may lack health insurance or a regular healthcare provider. 

HHS said this week that that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the CDC were working to simplify the process to get antivirals and reiterated that all rounds of treatment so far have been free.

The White House said during a press briefing on Friday that it was taking steps to expand access to both vaccines and antivirals.

Without mentioning the recent calls from lawmakers for enhanced action, officials including White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha addressed some of the areas of the monkeypox strategy that members of Congress have taken issue with.

“We have been leveraging all the resources at our disposal since the earliest days of the of this outbreak,” Jha said.

According to Jha, over 300,000 doses of vaccines to treat monkeypox have been shipped out and hundreds of thousands more doses are expected to arrive from Denmark in the coming weeks.

The White House official also said efforts were being made to make Tecovirimat, a smallpox antiviral also known as TPOXX that is believed to be effective against monkeypox, more accessible.

“Both CDC and FDA have been working very hard to streamline that process for accessing treatment to make it easier for clinicians to order it … to get it for their patients. That is ongoing work but it’s going to continue to accelerate,” said Jha, adding that the administration was looking to reduce the paperwork needed to provide TPOXX which is not technically authorized to treat monkeypox.

Jha also addressed the calls from lawmakers to declare a public health emergency, saying it was an ongoing conversation.

“We’re looking at that, looking at what are the ways in which the response could be enhanced, if any, by declaring a public health emergency,” he said.

“I think with public health emergencies, it’s always important to sort of ask very specific questions about what exactly would that allow us to be able to do differently than we’re doing now. And would that make it easier to be able to respond to this outbreak? So I will just say there’s no final decision on this that I’m aware of.”

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Buttigieg hits Rubio for calling same-sex marriage bill 'waste of time'

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday for his comments that a vote on a bill protecting same-sex marriage would be a “stupid waste of time.”

“If he’s got time to fight against Disney, I don’t know why he wouldn’t have time to help safeguard marriages like mine,” Buttigieg told CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper.

Earlier this year, Rubio was among the Florida GOP officials who attacked Disney over its opposition to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill restricting discussion of gender identify in elementary schools.

Rubio made his latest comments after the House advanced the Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify marriage rights for same-sex and interracial couples.

Democrats introduced the bill in response to concerns about Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, in which he also called on the court to revisit other rights including marriage equality.

The bill poses a problem for Republicans, given the widespread public support for recognizing same-sex marriage, but the continued belief among social conservatives that marriage should be defined as being between a man and a woman.

Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), who faces a close race for reelection, announced Thursday that he would vote for the House-passed bill, though he also accused Democrats of playing politics.

The first openly LGTBQ+ Cabinet secretary approved by the Senate, Buttigieg talked about the bill in the context of his own marriage.

“I don’t know why this would be hard for a senator or a congressman,” he told Tapper.

“I don’t understand, because such a majority of House Republicans voted no on our marriage on as recently as Tuesday, hours after I was in a room with a lot of them talking about transportation policy, having what I thought were perfectly normal conversations with many of them on that subject, only for them to go around the corner and say that my marriage doesn’t deserve to continue.”

If Republicans want to spend minimal time on the bill, “they can vote yes and move on,” the Transportation secretary added. “And that would be really reassuring for a lot of families around America, including mine.”

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), the first openly LGBTQ senator, told CNN on Thursday that she confronted Rubio over his comments.

She said they talked in a congressional elevator about privacy rights being jeopardized and eliminated by recent Supreme Court rulings. Rubio reportedly disagreed with Baldwin’s arguments. 

The Hill has reached out to the offices of Baldwin and Rubio for comment.

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Reports identify two American volunteer soldiers killed in Ukraine

The two Americans killed by Russian fire in Ukraine a week ago were identified in reports over the weekend as Luke “Skywalker” Lucyszyn and Bryan Young.

The volunteer soldiers were killed in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on July 18, reportedly ambushed by Russian tanks, their commander Ruslan Miroshnichenko confirmed to Politico Sunday.

Lucyszyn was a 31-year-old father of two who first went to Ukraine to be a medic, his parents told NBC News. “He didn’t go there to be a hero. He went there because he wanted to help people,” his mother said.

Young was born in 1971 and was an “American military man” who went to fight in Ukraine because he “took an oath to protect the free world,” Miroshnichenko told Politico.

Canadian Emile-Antoine Roy-Sirois and Swede Edvard Selander Patrignani were also killed while fighting with the special ops unit of the Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A State Department spokesperson on Sunday confirmed the deaths to The Hill, and said the families have been contacted. Out of respect for the families, they said, more information about the deaths would not be released at this time.

Several Americans have now died in Ukraine, including video journalist Brent Renaud and Minnesotan Jimmy Hill, who was killed while waiting in a bread line.

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in early June that Ukraine is losing 100 soldiers each day, with about 300 wounded each day. CIA Director William Burns estimated this week that 15,000 Russians have died in Ukraine and some 45,000 have been wounded.

As Russia continues to gain ground in the east five months into the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the international community to help him end the war by December of this year.

“Even the occupiers admit that we will win,” Zelensky said Sunday in his daily address to Ukrainians. “Therefore, we do not slow down and, as every day for five months, we are doing everything to inflict the greatest possible losses on the enemy and to gather as much support as possible for Ukraine.”

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Elon Musk's affair with Google co-founder's wife led to divorce filing: report

Google co-founder Sergey Brin filed to divorce his wife after learning she had an affair with fellow tech billionaire Elon Musk, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Musk, the richest man in the world, and Brin, the eighth richest person, were close friends until the affair, the newspaper reported. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO regularly crashed at Brin’s house , and Brin helped support Musk and Tesla during the 2008 financial crisis.

In recent months, the two had a falling out, with Brin telling his financial advisors to sell investments in Musk’s companies, according to the Journal.

Brin filed for divorce from his wife Nicole Shanahan in January, shortly after learning of the affair, according to the newspaper. While the couple were having issues, they were still living together when Musk and Shanahan reportedly had the affair at the Art Basel festival in Miami in December 2021.

They officially separated on Dec. 15.

Musk reportedly apologized to Brin at a party earlier this year, even dropping to a knee to express his sincerity, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Musk, 51, separated from the Canadian singer Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, in September after a roughly three-year relationship. The entrepreneur had twins with a top executive at another one of his companies, Neuralink, weeks before he broke up with Grimes.

The billionaire has nine living children with three women. His transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, filed in Los Angeles court last month to change her name, in part because she wanted to no longer be associated with her father.

Musk is currently locked in a legal battle with Twitter after he dropped a bid to purchase the social media company.

Brin founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page. He was president of Google parent company Alphabet until he stepped down in 2019. He married Shanahan in 2018.

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Seventeen Haitian migrants found dead after boat capsizes en route to Miami: officials

At least 17 Haitian migrants hoping to reach Miami died after a boat capsized in rough waters off the coast of the Bahamas, officials said on Sunday.

The Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said in an emergency press conference that 25 Haitians have been rescued, with many more presumed missing. 

He classified the travelers as “suspected irregular Haitian migrants” and the voyage as “a suspected human smuggling operation.”

Rescuers who found the capsized speed boat the morning after the wreck heard knocking underneath the hull — one female passenger was still alive in a trapped air pocket. The 17 bodies were found with her, and an infant is among the dead, according to Bahamas Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernando.

It’s estimated that the 30-foot, twin engine speed boat was originally carrying as many as 60 people. Two Bahamians rescued from the boat are now in custody, the police commissioner announced, adding those involved in the operation will face prosecution.

A multi-agency investigation is underway, and recovery efforts for the missing continue. 

Officials noted that the migrants each likely paid between $3,000-8,000 to make the trip.   

Thousands of Haitians continue to make the sometimes dangerous journey to the U.S., fleeing gang violence and poverty at home.

A boat carrying hundreds of Haitians migrants headed to the U.S. washed up in Cuba in May, the same month that 11 migrants drowned after a vessel capsized near Puerto Rico, Reuters reported.

The Bahamian Minister of Labor said 20 of the survivors of this weekend’s capsizing are at an immigration detention center, and three are in the hospital.   

The Bahamian government “has continually warned against these treacherous voyages,” the prime minister said at the news conference.

“I understand that the situation that many of these migrants face, that would encourage them to take such great risks. We, however, appeal to those considering making such a voyage not to do so,” Davis said.

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