A series of powerful storms continues to wreak havoc across the United States on Tuesday, bringing significant weather of nearly every variety to large parts of the Pacific Northwest, the Plains, Midwest, South and East Coast. Heavy rain will hit the New York area from late Tuesday into Wednesday, with the potential for flooding and…
New York City officials warned commuters to brace for disrupted travel conditions as a powerful storm was expected to batter the area with heavy winds and major flooding starting on Sunday and lasting into Monday. The National Weather Service said a low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico was moving toward the East Coast…
In a 7,000-word essay for Foreign Affairs magazine published this week, Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, tried to sum up the state of the Middle East. “Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges,” he wrote in the original version of the essay, “the region is quieter than it has been for…
A typical weather system, which was producing stormy weather off the coast of Florida early Friday, could reach tropical storm strength, earning the name Ophelia before striking the Carolinas and moving through the Mid-Atlantic States this weekend. Nearly seven million people in the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic region were under tropical storm warnings as of…
It collapsed a theater in Illinois. Tossed cars in Little Rock, Ark. Flattened homes in Tennessee. And left thousands without power in New Jersey. The storm system that tore through the Midwest, South and Mid-Atlantic on Friday and Saturday carved a path of destruction that encompassed an area from Wisconsin to Delaware, south to Mississippi,…
“When you’re a physician, you have to call out that you just don’t know,” said Dr. James Kravec, an internist and the chief clinical officer of Mercy Health-Youngstown, which has a primary care practice in East Palestine. “With high blood pressure or diabetes, it’s pretty straightforward. Right now, doctors want to run a test —…
WASHINGTON — The chief executive of Norfolk Southern told lawmakers at a Senate hearing on Thursday that he was “deeply sorry” for the effects of the train derailment last month in East Palestine, Ohio, as residents continue to express deep concerns about the possible environmental damage from the accident. In prepared remarks to the Senate…
The fever pitch of distrust was understandable for a community that saw what appeared to be an apocalyptic plume of chemicals rise from the wreckage on the rail line, then filmed dead fish and frogs in East Palestine’s streams and complained of headaches, sore throats, coughing and skin rashes — all as government officials assured…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — When a team came by the morning of Valentine’s Day to test the air quality in Maggie Guglielmo’s store a few blocks from where a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed this month, the smell was undeniable. “The air monitoring team left within 10 minutes due to the unpleasant/overwhelming odor,” the…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency traveled to this small community on Thursday with promises of aid but faced skepticism from residents outraged over what they saw as a delayed response to the toxic spill unleashed by the recent train derailment. The visit came within hours of an emotional and…