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Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay greater than $310 million to settle claims and canopy prices stemming from the February 2023 derailment of a freight prepare carrying hazardous supplies in an Ohio city, the federal authorities mentioned on Thursday. The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency mentioned the settlement, which nonetheless must be […] More

Artificial intelligence helped make turnout predictions within the Mississippi elections final yr, when one group used the expertise to transcribe, summarize and synthesize audio recordings of its door titties’ interactions with voters into studies on what they had been listening to in every county. Another group lately in contrast messages translated by people and A.I. […] More

Since the primary American shipments of refined weapons to Ukraine, President Biden has by no means wavered on one prohibition: President Volodymyr Zelensky needed to comply with by no means fireplace them into Russian territory, insisting that will violate Mr. Biden’s mandate to “keep away from World War III.” But the consensus round that coverage […] More

The Ohio General Assembly adjourned on Wednesday with out addressing a difficulty that the state’s prime elections official stated would forestall President Biden from being positioned on the poll there, escalating a partisan conflict that might consequence within the president not being on the poll in all 50 states in November. Frank LaRose, the Republican […] More

A key adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is stepping away from his presidential marketing campaign, citing an “more and more hateful and divisive ambiance” that “not aligns with my values.” Angela Stanton King, the marketing campaign’s adviser for Black engagement, introduced her departure in a press release on social media on Tuesday night, 5 […] More

President Biden has been battling a brand new phenomenon in American politics: what Democrats and pollsters have taken to calling “Trump amnesia,” a softening of feeling about his successor’s tumultuous time period as president. But over roughly 24 hours on Tuesday, Donald J. Trump supplied what regarded like at the very least a brief treatment. […] More

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, known as former President Donald J. Trump “a recognized antisemite” in a video launched on Tuesday, a notable escalation of assaults by President Biden’s marketing campaign towards Mr. Trump over his language about Jews. Mr. Emhoff’s remarks got here in a day social media submit by […] More

The House choose committee on China has requested the Justice Department and F.B.I. to research reviews that Chinese authorities lined up optimistic doping checks for almost half the swim group it despatched to the final Olympic Games and that the worldwide antidoping regulator didn’t take motion. In a letter despatched late Tuesday, the committee requested […] More

Vince Fong, a state lawmaker in California and onetime aide to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, gained a particular election on Tuesday to fill his seat — representing probably the most conservative district within the deep-blue state. Mr. Fong succeeds Mr. McCarthy almost 5 months after he resigned from Congress, following his ouster from the speakership. […] More

Vince Fong, a Republican state assemblyman in California, gained a particular election on Tuesday, in keeping with The Associated Press, to complete the congressional time period of Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted because the House speaker in October. Mr. Fong, a former aide to Mr. McCarthy, was the prohibitive favourite within the race after receiving […] More

The Biden administration introduced on Tuesday that it will dump a million barrels of gasoline over the approaching weeks from a strategic reserve within the Northeast, a transfer it stated was designed to maintain gasoline costs in examine for shoppers forward of the July 4 vacation. The sale of the government-owned inventory was mandated by […] More

When members of the Kennedy household joined President Biden in Philadelphia to endorse his re-election — and denounce the presidential candidacy of the best-known Kennedy of this era, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — one individual stepped ahead to make the household’s case: his youthful sister Kerry. “Nearly each single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy […] More