EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got a first-hand look Thursday at the damage and emotional toll left by a freight train derailment in Ohio that spilled toxic chemicals and burned in a huge plume over homes and businesses.
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EPA Administrator Michael Regan sought to reassure residents who are skeptical of testing results that say the air is safe to breathe and the water is fit for drinking around East Palestine, where just under 5,000 people live near the Pennsylvania state line. Read More...
By Thuong LeBBC Vietnamese
Getty ImagesStarbucks first opened in Vietnam 10 years agoTu Anh Le loves going to the Starbucks at the buzzing heart of Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City.
The 26-year-old and her friends dress up for the occasion and take selfies at the cafe. "Pictures at Starbucks make my Instagram look nicer," says Tu Anh Le, who thinks the cafe is "luxurious", like a five-star hotel. "I get a lot of likes and nice comments saying I look trendy. Read More...
Mysteries, crime fiction, whodunits, detective stories — all these terms are regularly used interchangeably. Yet golden-age puzzles are poles apart from modern-day police procedurals. The former are essentially clever intellectual games in which the author hopes to fool the reader; the latter are, as the old “Dragnet” radio show used to say, stories “of your police force in action.” Both, however, can provide ideal summertime reading, as two new books demonstrate. Read More...