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Fiery train derailment in Minnesota prompts evacuations

Authorities say a train hauling ethanol and corn syrup has derailed and caught fire in Minnesota and nearby residents have been ordered to evacuate from their homes

The Independent UK

Biden’s nominee to head FAA withdraws after Senate panel stalemate

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration withdrew from consideration in the face of Republican opposition in the Senate, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.

Tribune News Service

Biden nominee to lead FAA withdraws amid GOP opposition

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg condemned the "undeserved" partisan attacks against Washington.

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President Biden's nominee to head the FAA has withdrawn after Republican criticism

President Joe Biden's choice to run the Federal Aviation Administration has withdrawn his nomination, a setback for the administration that comes after he appeared to lack enough Senate support.

WEKU

Vance: Rail safety legislation is not 'big government' - Roll Call

Republican Sen. J.D. Vance attacked the rail industry for criticizing a safety bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

Roll Call

Mike Pence says Pete Buttigieg ‘can’t take a joke’ as he doubles down on homophobic comment

Ex-VP says ‘the Gridiron Dinner is a roast. I had a lot of jokes directed to me, and I directed a lot of jokes to Republicans and Democrats’

The Independent UK

Pence defends joke about Buttigieg 'maternity leave'

The husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttgieg says he hasn’t heard from Mike Pence in the days since the former vice president mocked his family

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Gene Collier: 2024? Forget it, Mike

With the 2024 presidential election a mere 590 or so days in the distance, few so-called news stories could interest me less on the upslope of 2023 than candidate kabuki at the start of a 19-month pregame show.

Tribune News Service

Buttigieg’s husband sends Pence a photo of his hospitalised baby in angry response to ‘maternity leave’ joke

The White House has called for former vice president to apologise for what it called a ‘homophobic’ joke

The Independent UK

Pete Buttigieg calls out Pence for being two-faced in controversial ‘maternity leave’ jibe

‘It’s a strange thing to me, because last time I saw him, he asked me about my kids like a normal person would’

The Independent UK

Chasten Buttigieg hits back at Pence

The former vice president mocked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for taking "maternity leave"

Salon

Tesla Autopilot Name Lacks “Common Sense,” Says Top US Regulator

U.S Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg believes Tesla’s Autopilot doesn’t live up to its name and that it's a concern.

InsideEVs

Pence aide mocks White House for demanding he apologise to Buttigieg over maternity leave ‘joke’

‘Biden administration should spare America the faux outrage’

The Independent UK

White House rebukes Mike Pence over homophobic jokes about Pete Buttigieg

Former vice-president took aim at transportation secretary for taking maternity leave and joked about postpartum depression

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The Independent UK

Buttigieg’s husband sends Pence a photo of his hospitalised baby in angry response to ‘maternity leave’ joke

The White House has called for former vice president to apologise for what it called a ‘homophobic’ joke

WEKU

There are about 3 U.S. train derailments per day. They aren't usually major disasters

The U.S. saw more than one thousand train derailments last year, but industry leaders say traveling by rail remains one of the safest methods of transportation.

WEKU

Railway transport safety is failing. These lawmakers have a plan to help

Another headline-grabbing trail derailment in the span of a month has legislators urging stricter safety regulations for railway workers.

The Independent UK

Texas, feds settle probe over $9B Houston highway project

Federal authorities have announced they are lifting their hold of a more than $9 billion Houston area highway-widening project that has come under intense criticism from residents and activists who have argued the proposal would cause lasting economic and environmental damage to their communities

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The Guardian - US

The Democrats botched the Ohio disaster response – and handed Trump a victory

The failure of Pete Buttigieg, the US secretary of transportion, to appear for nearly three weeks recalls the incompetence of Fema during Hurricane Katrina

The Independent UK

Buttigieg fires back at critics over timing of East Palestine visit

Pete Buttigieg said he and his team ‘were always going to go’ to East Palestine regardless of what Donald Trump or anyone else had said or done

Tribune News Service

Jay Ambrose: Pete Buttigieg defames Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg, something of a genius in academic matters, is despairingly short of that when it comes to practicality, failing miserably, for instance, as secretary of the Department of Transportation. It’s almost as if his job is to sit and do little, disappear from the office a lot, get mad,…

The Independent UK

Pete Buttigieg admits mistakes in East Palestine derailment response

“Sometimes people need policy work, and sometimes people need performative work,” the Transport Secretary says. “And to get to this level, you’ve got to be ready to serve up both.”

The Guardian - US

Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry

Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio derailment brings hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules

The Conversation

Why Biden might drop his vice president (and reasons why he shouldn't)

Despite receiving the greatest number of votes cast in a presidential election, there is discussion among some Democrats and commentators about breaking up the Biden-Harris partnership for the 2024 election.

Axios

Labor unions say East Palestine cleanup site workers are falling ill

Norfolk Southern rejects union claims that it wasn't providing personal protective equipment to workers.

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