The Latest Breaking News from East Palestine

The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic smoke following the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

Regulators say Norfolk Southern has made improvements since a fiery Ohio derailment but still falls well short of being the “gold standard for safety” it is striving to be

As East Palestine residents continue to experience wide-ranging symptoms in the wake of the February derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals, a research team from the University of Kentucky is launching the first study assessing biological samples for chemical exposure in East Palestine

Mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and toxicologists at Texas A&M University sampled East Palestine's air quality from a mobile lab.

The union that represents locomotive engineers says a coal train derailment in Virginia is renewing questions about Norfolk Southern's safety practices

The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio imposed after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine in February

"In addition to the physical and mental health impacts, there have been economic impacts," he said in a letter to Biden.

Spurred on by train derailments, some states crisscrossed by busy freight railroads aren’t waiting for federal action to improve safety

President Biden rolls out the red carpet for India's prime minister. Time is running out in the search for the Titan submersible. And, the NTSB holds hearings on the East Ohio train derailments.