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  • broiler chickens eat food close-up on a poultry farm. Food industrial production of chickens.Health

    Nearly 1 million chickens will be slaughtered on a Minnesota farm. The reason: bird flu

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Rescue personnel work at the scene of a Metrolink commuter train collision in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a report Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, urging the Federal Railroad Administration and the industry to keep developing new technology that can be used to improve Positive Train Control systems. But their recommendations include at least one practical idea that railroads could likely implement relatively quickly. (AP Photo/Hector Mata, File)Politics

    Norfolk Southern’s fiery Ohio derailment made railroad safety an issue. Now the NTSB says the automatic braking system needs to be improved

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger attends the annual Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2019. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Warren Buffett lieutenant Charlie Munger gives $40 million in stock to Southern California museum

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The CSX logo is affixed on a surface, July 15, 2013, Nashville, Tenn. Much of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX locomotives on Sept. 17, 2023, in Ohio has focused on whether that 19-year veteran should have seen the train coming and not on the actions of the worker who could hardly see the front of the locomotives he or she was operating using a remote control. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)Tech

    CSX too focused on profits to invest in safety technology, says rail union president after worker’s death

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Union Pacific train travels through Union, Neb., July 31, 2018. The federal government has joined a number of former workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used its own vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train. The new lawsuit was announced Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)Finance

    Union Pacific sued by U.S. government and former employees over flawed vision test used to disqualify color blind railroad workers

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Customers walk to a CVS Pharmacy, Friday, Nov 4, 2022, in Boston. CVS made a move Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, to make frustrated pharmacists in the Kansas City-area to call off a walkout. It promised to boost hiring to ease overwhelming workloads that sometimes make it hard to take a bathroom break. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, FIle)Success

    CVS is promising to boost hiring after overworked pharmacists don’t show up, but longterm solution to worker shortage is elusive

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • East Palestine derailmentEnvironment

    Biden to federal government: Hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the East Palestine derailment

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • OHIO, UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 17: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT – “UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) / HANDOUT” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) Smoke and flames rise after after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 17, 2023. The train derailment happened on Feb. 3 in which 38 cars derailed, including 11 containing hazardous materials, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate for several days. (Photo by US Environmental Protection Agency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Environment

    Norfolk Southern to pay Ohio town residents for any lost home value after a train crash and resulting health worries decimated the local economy

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • CSX trainFinance

    Railroad union says ‘enough is enough’ after remote-controlled train crushes worker to death over the weekend

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Smoke rises after an explosion at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Neb., Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. An explosion Thursday inside a shipping container generated toxic smoke and forced evacuations. (Melanie Standiford/Midwest Media via AP)Environment

    Explosion at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska releases ‘heavy toxic smoke’, triggering evacuations

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Union PacificLeadership

    The Feds’ top railroad cop just wrote to Union Pacific saying spot checks found defects were twice the national average this summer

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A maintenance worker walks on the side of a locomotive in the Union Pacific Railroad fueling yard in north Denver, Oct. 18, 2006. Federal inspectors found an alarming number of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific was using at the world’s largest rail yard in North Platte, Neb., this summer and the railroad was reluctant to fix the problems. Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose wrote a letter to UP’s top three executives Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, expressing his concern that the defects represent a “significant risk to rail safety on the Union Pacific’ railroad.” (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)Finance

    Federal inspectors warn of ‘significant risk to rail safety’ after reporting alarming number of Union Pacific defects

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Ian Jefferies, president and chief executive officer at the Association of American RailroadsPolitics

    Railroad giants slam the brakes on safety hotline because they want to be able to discipline staff who use it

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Norfolk Southern crashFinance

    Norfolk Southern and other big railroads claim they encourage safety and transparency—but nearly 800 whistleblower complaints say otherwise

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Norfolk Southern derailmentEnvironment

    The fiery Ohio train derailment is turning into a finger-pointing legal fight as Norfolk Southern slaps supplier with lawsuit

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press