President Biden is making sure the federal government is keeping tabs on residents in the city where a train derailment and fire Feb. 3 led to toxic chemicals being released into the environment.
President Joe Biden told the press Friday that he has no plans to visit East Palestine, Ohio following the Feb. 3 train derailment that forced members of the community to leave their homes and continues to pose environmental threats to the general vicinity.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, slammed Democrats who would not show up for an in-person hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee in Yuma, Arizona, on Thursday regarding the southern border.
Oakwood Village is just over an hour by car from East Palestine, the site where the toxic chemical vinyl chloride was burned and released into the environment after a train carrying it derailed.
Police in Texas said this week that the 16-year-old suspected of shooting three people at an El Paso mall was shot by a citizen who was legally carrying a firearm at the mall.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will send toxicologists to a struggling Ohio town in the wake of a major train derailment and the release of hazardous materials from its railcars.
The death of a Colorado man who died while under physical restraint by members of a crisis response team last fall has officially been ruled a homicide, though no charges will be filed in connection to the incident.
