“Tribes see grants to fight crime as step in right direction”

1. “Tribes see grants to fight crime as step in right direction”

2. Many federal agents, tribal police, judges, researchers and prosecutors have shown that Native American women suffer from violent crime at a rate 2½ times the national average. In doing so, they have challenged the Obama administration to do something about it. In response the Department of Justice announced $127 million in grants aimed at crime and justice on American Indian reservations.

3. In Other News • China only recently began using cars on a mass scale, yet this one-time "kingdom of bicycles" is quickly changing, and the consequences are painful. In August, a 60-mile, 10-day gridlock of coal trucks stuck on a highway made headlines as the "world's longest traffic jam.“ Traffic congestion in Beijing has grown from an average 3.5 hours per day in 2008 to five hours this year, the Beijing News reported. Because of the sever traffic, the city's current average driving speed of 15 mph is expected to fall to just 9.3 mph in 2015. • According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is affiliated with the World Health Organization, people younger than 30 who use tanning machines increase their risk of skin cancer by 75%. • Bacteria that are able to survive every modern antibiotic are cropping up in many U.S. hospitals and are spreading outside the USA, public health officials say. The bacteria are equipped with a gene that enables them to produce an enzyme (known as KPC) that disables antibiotics. Although KPCs are most common in New York and New Jersey, Srinivasan says, "they've now been reported in more than half of the states." • As The World Turns final episode airs on Sept. 17. It is currently the longest-running soap opera still on television. The show was the first-ever 30-minute TV soap opera.