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The National Transportation Safety Board says a flaming wheel bearing caused the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last year

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy says Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the investigation into the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and shape its conclusions about what the agency called a flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside

Residents are returning to a fire-ravaged village in the mountains of southern New Mexico

Search and rescue crews have been able to trimdown the list of residents unaccounted for after people fled from a New Mexico mountain village from a pair of fast-moving wildfires

The mayor of Maui County in Hawaii wants to stop owners of thousands of vacation properties from renting to visitors

The mayor of Maui County in Hawaii wants to stop owners of thousands of vacation properties from renting to visitors

More rain storms are possible in parts of the deluged Midwest, where flooding after days of heavy rains has killed at least two people, sent a river surging around a dam and forced evacuations and rescues

Floodwaters have breached levees in Iowa, creating dangerous conditions that prompted evacuations as the deluged Midwest faces another round of severe storms

Floodwaters have breached levees in Iowa, creating dangerous conditions that prompted evacuations as the deluged Midwest faces another round of severe storms

Severe storms with tornado warnings brought hail and heavy rain to parts of the Midwest as floodwaters breached levees in Iowa, creating dangerous conditions that prompted evacuations