'Put me in jail': For many U.S. Republicans, fierce COVID-19 vaccine resistance
Many of the party's supporters are among the most vaccine-skeptical people in the U.S., which experts see as a dangerous barrier to taming a virus that has killed over 540,000 Americans.
NCAA hoop landscape enduring wholesale change
If you've been on a mission to Mars with Matt Damon for a year or two and just returned to earth, welcome back. Glad you made it home safely. However, MAS must warn you: you won't recognize the current landscape of U.S. collegiate basketball. You would swear ...
Oil train fireball seen adding pressure for U.S. safety decision
Video images of a fireball boiling from the wreckage of a derailed train hauling Bakken crude are adding to pressure on federal regulators to act on new safety standards for oil shipments. While there were no fatalities in the CSX Corp. accident in rural West ...
CSX oil train derails in West Virginia; at least two cars on fire; towns evacuated
A CSX Corp. train hauling crude derailed in West Virginia on Monday, setting at least two cars ablaze and forcing the evacuation of two nearby towns in the second significant oil-train incident in three days. One or two train cars plunged into the Kanawha River, ...
