News in :90 – Dec. 4, 2023

The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator has risen to 13 people after a worker died at a hospital.

Impala Platinum said that the worker died Sunday from injuries sustained when the elevator plummeted around 650 feet down the shaft of a platinum mine while carrying workers to the surface. Eleven workers died that day, while the latest victim was the second mineworker to die at a hospital.

The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine.

In a letter to House and Senate leaders and released publicly, Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young warned the U.S. will run out of funding to send weapons and assistance to Ukraine by the end of the year.

Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison 22 times by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant who told investigators he targeted the ex-Minneapolis police officer because of his notoriety for killing George Floyd.

John Turscak was charged with attempted murder a week after the Nov. 24 attack at the federal correctional institution in Tucson, Arizona. He told correctional officers he would have killed Chauvin had they not responded so quickly, prosecutors said.

Grace Sutton can be reached at sutt7355@stthomas.edu.