Ohio residents filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday against the railroad company Norfolk Southern after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in early February and cast a toxic plume of chemicals over the town and polluted the air and water, according to the lawsuit’s text.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week the availability of $907 million in funding to provide short and mid-term residential options for homeless Californians with drug addiction and serious mental illness.
The Lee County GOP in Florida is invoking the Nuremberg Code and calling on Governor Ron DeSantis to ban the sale and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, which they claim are a bioweapon responsible for more deaths and injuries than all other vaccines combined.
The NTSB has released its initial report on the East Palestine train derailment in Ohio, which tentatively supports reports that a wheel bearing severely overheated prior to the accident.
The Biden administration is proposing new rules, similar to a Trump-era policy, to reduce fraudulent asylum claims and discourage illegal immigration by presuming asylum ineligibility for migrants crossing through other nations to reach the U.S. Southern Border.
