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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Monday that Norfolk Southern requested and was granted the controlled release of chemicals, including deadly viny chloride, following the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine provided more insight Monday evening into how the controlled release of chemicals came to be following the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. DeWine told the press Monday evening: “We looked at the danger of a controlled release which is what the railroad company felt should be done. We then went ahead with the second option, which was the controlled release.”

Just heard an explosion outside the US Capitol. Sounded like something blown in place

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded on Baghdad's airport road Tuesday as a U.S. military convoy was passing by, wounding four American soldiers and destroying an armored Humvee, the U.S. military said. Around 10 civilian vehicles were also wrecked in the blast on the highway leading to the capital's international airport, a police official said. He said there were civilian casualties but did not immediately have an exact figure. Ambulances rushed at least two women, a child and three wounded men to a nearby hospital, doctors said. One of the women was covered in blood. Maj. Phil Smith of...