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  • FILE – A worker rides a rail car at a BNSF rail crossing in Saginaw, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Tens of thousands of engineers remain frustrated with the lack of paid sick time and the demands railroads like BNSF are making in negotiations despite the progress that has been made in 2023 with sick time deals for most of the other rail unions. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)Politics

    Many railroad workers have won paid sick leave but unions say companies are asking for too much in return

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Warren BuffettFinance

    Warren Buffett reveals he basically didn’t think anything was worth buying last quarter

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A worker heads into the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo., Oct. 12, 2020. Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), the slaughterhouse cleaning company that was found to be employing more than 100 children to help sanitize dangerous razor-sharp cutting equipment like bone saws, has continued to lose contracts with the major meat producers since the investigation became public in the fall of 2022. Cargill, Tyson Foods and JBS have all terminated contracts with PSSI at at least some of their plants. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)Success

    A slaughterhouse cleaning company that used more than 100 children as workers keeps losing contracts with big companies

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • DerailmentPolitics

    The feds are warning railroads that their love of long trains is leading to horrible accidents and derailments—but they’re not doing anything about it yet

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The crew on a Union Pacific freight train works at a siding area on Jan. 24, 2020, south of Tucson, Ariz. Rail unions want railroads to take some of the billions they’re using every year to buy back their stock and use it to improve safety in the wake of several high-profile derailments and hire more workers. (AP Photo/David Boe, File)Finance

    Rail unions tell railroads to buy back less stock and invest more money in safety after string of derailments

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Meat processingFinance

    Biden to Big Meat: Please try not to use child labor

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Warren BuffettSuccess

    Warren Buffett won’t say whether the Fed should hike rates and insists he tunes out macro when investing: ‘We haven’t changed our course in 58 years’

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • TRUCKEE, CA – MARCH 03: A Union Pacific train equipped with a snow plow rests in Truckee, California on March 03, 2023. (Photo by Josh Edelson for the Washington Post)Success

    Union Pacific spies on workers who take medical leave and then fires those who leaves the house, lawsuit says

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Olivia Holley, 22, and Taylor Gulish, 22, collect water samples from Leslie Run creek on February 25, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio.Politics

    Norfolk Southern CEO to tell Congress he’s ‘deeply sorry’ for the Ohio train derailment disaster: ‘I am determined to make it right’

    By Josh Funk, Stephen Groves, and others
  • Train derailmentEnvironment

    The railroad industry’s plan to fix derailments: Sensors that work

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Multiple cars of a Norfolk Southern train lie toppled after derailing at a train crossing with Ohio 41 in Clark County, Ohio, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (Bill Lackey/Springfield-News Sun via AP)Environment

    After fiery crash, conductor’s death, other derailments feds open special probe into Norfolk Southern

    By Josh Funk, John Seewer, and others
  • East Palestine residentsEnvironment

    ‘It’s not safe here’: Terrified Ohioans beg Norfolk Southern to pay for relocation because they’re afraid of their homes

    By Josh Funk, John Seewer, and others
  • Sherrod BrownPolitics

    Toxic crash prompts Ohio senators to cross party lines with bill to ‘finally hold big railroad companies accountable’

    By Julie Carr Smyth, Josh Funk, and others
  • Lance Fritz, chief executive officer of Union PacificFinance

    Lance Fritz out as CEO of Union Pacific: Public letter from hedge fund said the railroad ‘lagged behind rivals’ under his watch

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Pete ButtigiegPolitics

    Buttigieg blames Congress for railroad safety issues: ‘Untie our hands here’

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press