A federal regulator on Wednesday approved a Canadian freight railroad’s plan to buy an American competitor, a $31 billion deal that will make the railroad the first to operate across North America. In approving the deal, the regulator, the Surface Transportation Board, said the new single-line service would shift about 64,000 truckloads a year to…
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 wreckage from a Norfolk Southern train derailment on Saturday in Ohio — the second such crash in the state in just over a month — was cleaned up by Sunday afternoon as investigators set to determine what led 28 cars to leave the tracks. No hazardous materials were involved in the derailment, which happened…
A slow-moving winter storm will intensify over California on Friday, forecasters said, a day after it walloped large swaths of the West with snow and a wintry mix that disrupted travel along a number of major arteries. Multiple rounds of heavy snow combined with strong winds will create blizzard conditions over high terrain and mountain…
Octavia Butler wrote 12 novels and won each of science fiction’s highest honors. She was the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. In 2020, 14 years after her death, one of her novels, “Parable of the Sower,” appeared on The New York Times’s best-seller list for the first time, a…
EL PASO — President Biden on Sunday made his first visit to the border since taking office, arriving at a city swamped by migrants amid a historic surge in illegal immigration and anger from both parties about how he is handling it. In a brief visit to El Paso’s busiest crossing and a migrant services…
ANAHEIM, Calif. — In recent years, the Southern Baptist Convention has grappled with declining membership, high-profile departures and a sprawling sex abuse scandal. The country’s largest Protestant denomination has also seen bitter internal clashes over race, gender and politics. This week, with all those pressures bearing down, thousands of Southern Baptists are gathering for an…