Five lingering questions over Ohio train derailment, toxic spill
Residents of the small town of East Palestine, Ohio are back in their homes this week following their evacuation over looming explosion fears after a train carrying 20 cars of hazardous materials derailed. The contents of the rail cars have since been burned to prevent an explosion, while officials conducted a "controlled release" of toxic chemicals. Noxious odors have also largely dispersed from town, though still remain near some streams, according to local
Read MoreBiden: 'Action is what we owe' those grieving Michigan State shooting
President Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to take action against gun violence in the wake of the shooting at Michigan State University that left three students dead and injured five others. “Our hearts are with these young victims and their families, the broader East Lansing and Lansing communities, and all Americans across the country grieving as the result of gun violence,” Biden said in a statement. Biden noted that the Michigan State shooting took place one day before the five-year anniversary of when a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Read MoreWhite House: No indication objects were part of China spy program
The White House on Tuesday said that they don’t have an indication that the three objects shot down by the U.S. military over the weekend were part of China’s spy program, noting though the difficulties with recovering the debris. “While we can’t definitively say, again without analyzing the debris, what these objects were, thus far — and I caveat that by saying thus far — we haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the [China’s] spy balloon program, or that they were definitively involved in external intell
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Read MoreAnnual inflation hits 6.4 percent in January: CPI
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