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Vice President JD Vance: “I'm proud to announce with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya that the Trump Administration is launching a program to study long-term health effects of the chemical spill in East Palestine, OH and help residents access the care they need. East Palestine, we will never forget you.”

It could be the end of the line for the "train to nowhere." Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has released a scathing report exposing what he said is the unfeasibility of California's long-troubled high-speed rail project — and is threatening to pull the plug on a plan that already has the federal government on the hook for $6.9 billion while Californians are underwriting an additional $9 billion. Duffy said that the federal government is moving to terminate around $4 billion it has currently obligated to the project unless the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) can prove it is tenable. He blasted...

The suit alleges a coordinated effort to block medical care for those exposed to toxic chemicals. Also named are Vanguard, Mercy Health, and Quest Diagnostics, with the CDC accused of instructing healthcare providers not to test for dioxins or other hazardous substances. Plaintiffs claim this led to widespread misdiagnoses, delayed treatment, and that a letter was circulated telling providers to dismiss patient health concerns. ...

Caltrain has installed RailSentry, an AI-powered technology, at the Churchill Avenue rail crossing in Palo Alto to enhance safety. The system uses cameras and lidar to detect and distinguish between objects, alerting a security operations center if any intrude on the tracks. While RailSentry is a significant improvement, it is part of a larger effort including pavement markers, signage, and upgraded fencing to address safety concerns at the crossing. There were more than 230 vehicle-track incursions in which a tow truck was required to get a vehicle off the tracks on Caltrain’s corridor between 2020 and April 23, 2025, according...

Officers had to form a skirmish line to clear a large mob that vandalized a Metro train, a police car and several businesses in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night.

San Francisco came to a standstill Friday after the BART train system was suspended due to a network failure. BART service was halted around 5am PT, stranding thousands of commuters on their way to work. 'Due to a computer networking problem BART service is suspended system wide until further notice,' BART Alert shared on X. BART added that crews are on hand, troubleshooting a 'computer networking problem.' The rail systems spokesperson Alicia Trost told NBC Bay Area that the control center was unable to power up the system after its daily overnight shutdown. An image of the Embarcadero BART station...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) submitted a report to Congress urging action to restore passenger train service. The report proposes a daily Amtrak route from Portland to Denver, with stops in Baker City, Oregon. This was reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply. Amtrak ended its Pioneer Route in 1997, and efforts to revive it have occurred sporadically since then. Oregon’s senators have endorsed the idea multiple times, advocating for the route’s return. In 2021, Congress instructed the FRA to evaluate potential new long-distance train routes, including the Pioneer Route. The recent FRA report highlights the Pioneer Route...

“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary argued during a recent interview that President Trump’s tariffs against China are necessary because the U.S. has to train Beijing “like a puppy” to not “steal” intellectual property. “It’s not just trade tariffs. It’s you cheating and stealing. We’re tired of it, and you’ve got to stop. They actually don’t care that they steal IP [intellectual property] — they don’t. They think it’s OK,” O’Leary said during a Friday morning appearance on CNN. “It’s almost … the analogy is like a puppy when you’re training it. You stick the nose in the poo poo, and...

Failed vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) admitted during a recent interview he can sometimes be “a train wreck.” In an article published by New York Magazine, the Intelligencer told Walz “It doesn’t feel like the party was very bold when you and Harris got on the ticket in the latter half of the 2024 campaign.” Walz said he thinks they are “cautious by nature,” adding that “I said this and I told the vice-president, I said I know my strengths and weaknesses. I said about 90 percent of the time, I can be really good, but about...

The Trump administration is launching an audit of California’s high-speed rail project, which is a decade late and is expected to run $100 billion over budget without connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles, as originally intended. As Breitbart News has reported, President Donald Trump warned that the federal government could claw back over $4 billion in spending on the project, just as he blocked $1 billion for the ailing project during his first administration. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy drew protesters in an appearance in Los Angeles to announce the audit: U.S. Secretary of...

Democratic strategist James Carville argued that political actors in his party should “play possum” right now, as grassroots organizing pops up across the country, noting that the “freight train is moving.” Carville joined MSNBC’s “The Beat” on Monday, where host Ari Melber asked him to weigh into the nationwide protests against the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “This is happening all around the country. So, the question is, how should Democratic politicians respond to this? And I think they should do is, what we call in rural America, play possum. Just let it go. Don’t...

IT'S NEW YEARS EVE AND IT'S THE TRUMP FAMILY TRAIN GALS ARE WARMING UP. IS THAT YOU STYLIN, WITH DARK GLASSES ON IN THE BACK LOOKING FOR RED HEADS? SWEETIE & JEMIAN THINK THEY HAVE THE MOVES, MAYFLOWERMADAM IN THE BACK IS REALLY TRYINGFREEE-DAME AND CHANI CAN BARELY GET THOSE HIPS MOVING RUSTY THROWS OFF HER NECK BRACE AND SAYS THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE GIRLS. NORSKY & EXIT82 ARE HAVING A DANCING COMPETITION BUT A SURPRISE GUEST HAS OUTDONE THEM BOTH MsBEHAVIN IS STILL NOT BEHAVIN JUDY IS ONCE AGAIN SAMPLING THE WINE AFTER A FEW GLASSES...

USA: One person was killed and four were injured after a freight train hit a truck standing on the tracks in the city of Pecos, Texas. As a result of the impact, the train derailed and hit buildings.

Join me as we ride through Indonesia on what is one of the world's best train suites for only $100! We started this trip in Yogyakarta and rode this 6hr train all the way to Jakarta in first class

Sacramento-area congressman Kevin Kiley took to the floor of the House of Representatives recently to declare the following: “Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to report that the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency has honed in on perhaps the single-greatest example of government waste in United States history,” the Republican from Rocklin intoned. “And that is California’s high-speed-rail boondoggle.”

Diorama Shokudo is a place where foster parents and cats can meet and become happy! (Translated from Japanese)

CHICAGO — Chicago police were called to the scene of an apparent train heist at a rail yard on the city’s West Side on Friday afternoon, resulting in at least six arrests. SkyCam 9 was over the scene near Lake Street and Lockwood Avenue in Garfield Park around 4:30 p.m. when several people could be seen pulling items from the freight train’s cars. The group appeared to have gotten several train cars open and were pulling items from within.

At this time, an estimated 50 to 150 people or more are actively looting and breaking into a cargo train on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. Police have been dispatched to the scene to address the ongoing incident, with reports of individuals stealing boxes of items, possibly including TVs, from the train's containers. Witnesses describe the situation as chaotic, with looters working quickly to empty the cargo. This is still a developing story. VIDEO AT LINK......................

At least 50 thieves descended on a freight train in Chicago's West Side to ransack whatever items they could get their hands on. The group of wayward opportunists swarmed the Union Pacific train on Friday to steal multiple boxes before officers arrived. The robbery occurred just before 4pm in the 400 block of North Lamon Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood. The massive heist forced the train to suspend its operations. In a statement on X.com, Metra said that 'train service is temporarily suspended due to ongoing police activity near Kedzie.' The statement continued: 'Metra encourages customers to seek alternate...

Political pundits mercilessly mocked Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance during a 60 Minutes interview Monday after she delivered false, incoherent, and rambling statements. The interview represented one of the first times she sat down for a serious, unscripted interview since joining the race, with a host that asked honest questions. Harris has not sat for many local interviews in battleground states, and she has mostly avoided the national press and conducted zero press conferences. During the 60-minute interview, Harris was asked how she would pay for increased spending. She responded by arguing billionaires will pay for it. Billy Binion, a...