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How many train derailments have there been in the US in 2023?

Rail freight industry under scrutiny after ecological disaster struck East Palestine, Ohio

The Independent UK

Stephen Colbert: Fox News ‘tossed aside any last scraps of journalistic integrity’

Late-night hosts discuss Pete Buttigieg’s visit to East Palestine, Ohio, a possible indictment of Trump in Georgia and Fox News’s latest invented controversy

The Guardian - US

New NTSB Report Highlights Useless, Premature Regulatory Push After East Palestine Derailment

Plus: Ex-felons and the right to vote, Gavin Newsom's plan to cap oil company profits collides with reality, and more...

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Editorial: US faces bigger environmental threats than a single train derailment. Will GOP rise to the challenge?

One of the curiosities to rise out of the Norfolk Southern train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, and caused a dayslong fire, has been the outcry from Republican opinion leaders. High-profile conservatives — from U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio to Sen. Ted…

Tribune News Service

‘Nobody has answers’: Ohio residents fearful of health risks near train site

Locals who live near the site of the toxic train derailment describe ‘burning eyes and throat’ as experts say the EPA is needlessly putting their health at risk

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump Jr. goes on homophobic rant against ‘gay guy’ Pete Buttigieg

Donald Trump Jr. went on a homophobic rant against Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during an appearance on a far-right cable news network Wednesday night.

Tribune News Service

‘The whole sky was black’: Pa. residents describe the horror of the East Palestine derailment

Residents who live near the Pennsylvania-Ohio border close to this month’s catastrophic train derailment told lawmakers horror stories Thursday of skin rashes, headaches, sick animals and an overwhelming sense of helplessness.

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Fact checking the Ohio train derailment disaster

The Ohio train derailment has led to a wave of misinformation. Here are the facts.

ABC News

White House urging higher fines for train safety violations

The White House is calling on congressional Republicans to increase the fines levied on rail companies for safety violations in the wake of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

The Independent UK

An NTSB report shows Norfolk Southern’s train was heating up for miles. The crew wasn’t warned until it was too late

PITTSBURGH — The Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 had passed through three temperature sensors designed to alert problems like the hot bearing that eventually failed that day.

Tribune News Service

Preliminary report offers new details about US train derailment

A report by the National Transportation Safety Board says the train’s crew received an alert just before the crash.

Al Jazeera

Watch Pete Buttigieg tour site of Ohio train derailment in East Palestine

US transport secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the site of the Ohio train derailment.

The Independent UK

Donald Trump boasts about knowing McDonald’s menu better than restaurant staff

The former President was visiting the stricken Ohio town of East Palestine in the wake of the devastating train derailment there. He said to a member of staff: 'I know this menu better than you do'

Daily Mirror

New NTSB report explains why Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio

A wheel bearing on the train reached more than 250 F before failing

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The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump in East Palestine: ‘A train wreck talking about a train wreck’

Late-night hosts discuss a visit to the toxic derailment site in Ohio, and eerie messages from Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot

The Independent UK

Pete Buttigieg’s team asks conservative media to stop recording press officer during East Palestine visit

Press secretary said she would answer questions off-camera

The Guardian - US

Trump is taking advantage of the Ohio disaster in a way that’s eerily reminiscent of 2016

Conservative dog-whistling about how white people in red states are pariahs was a tactic that helped Trump win a presidential election

Salon

Trump called out over East Palestine lie

"I had nothing to do with" slashing rail regulations, Trump claimed after gutting rail regulations

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The Independent UK

Pete Buttigieg visits East Palestine 20 days after train derailment as he admits he should have spoken sooner

Mr Buttigieg visited the village the day after Donald Trump toured the crash site

The Independent UK

Buttigieg visits East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment site

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is in East Palestine, Ohio, to tour the site where a train wrecked nearly three weeks ago as the government faces growing criticism over the federal response to the derailment

Axios

Axios interview: Sen. J.D. Vance sees "our people" hurt by derailment

Vance spoke as he was leaving an event in East Palestine with former President Trump.

Al Jazeera

Biden and Trump spar over East Palestine train disaster in US

Labour groups have said cost-cutting measures by railroad companies occurred under both Democrats and Republicans.

WEKU

A doctor near East Palestine, Ohio, details the main thing he's watching for now

Officials are monitoring the air and water in East Palestine, Ohio, since a train carrying chemicals derailed there. A local doctor tells us what he is seeing.

The Guardian - US

Trump’s environmental rollbacks in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site

Former president criticizes Biden administration’s response to train derailment in East Palestine as he visits town

Tribune News Service

'We stand with you,' Donald Trump tells East Palestine in visit after train derailment

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Former President Donald Trump came to show “love and support” Wednesday for this reeling village near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, almost three weeks after a catastrophic train derailment and the release of toxic chemicals left residents fearing for their health.

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