Kristen Saloomey finds the US village of East Palestine grappling with health concerns following the 2023 disaster.
Kristen Saloomey
Kristen Saloomey is a New York-based correspondent for Al Jazeera who has been honoured by the United Nations Foundation for her investigative work on... the source of Haiti’s cholera epidemic. Her stories take her from the US court system to the countryside, from the streets of New York to the eye of the storm.
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