- Fiery Ohio derailment raises railroad safety questions
![This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio are still on fire at mid-day Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023.]()
- US general to aggressors: Allies are battle-ready in Asia
![Commanding General of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division based in Hawaii, Maj. Gen. Joseph Ryan gestures as he speaks to The Associated Press in Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Ryan said American forces and their allies in Asia, including the Philippines, are ready for battle after years of joint combat exercises and added that Russia's war setbacks in Ukraine should serve as a warning to potential Asian aggressors like China and North Korea.]()
- The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school
![Kailani Taylor-Cribb walks through her neighborhood in Asheville, N.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Kailani hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from the public school roll in Cambridge, Mass., in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then.]()
- Passport rush blamed on US policy stalls adoptions in Haiti
![Bryan and Julie Hanlon hold photos of their adopted Haitian children, Gina, left, and Peterson, in a play area of their home in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. They became the legal parents of the siblings in 2022 and fear they won't be able to secure their passports and fly them out of Haiti.]()
- Tiny California mouse wins Guinness award for longevity
![This Jan. 10, 2023, photo provided by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows a Pacific pocket mouse named Sir Patrick Stewart. On Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, Stewart received a Guinness World Records title for longevity for being the oldest living mouse in human care at the ripe age of 9 years and 209 days. (Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance via AP)]()
- Reporter arrested during news event on Ohio train derailment
![Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine meets with reporters after touring the Norfolk Southern train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.]()
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![Relatives of victims of the August 2019 Walmart mass shooting, who declined to speak to the media, leave the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Defendant Patrick Crusius pleaded guilty to federal charges accusing him of killing 23 people in the racist attack, changing his plea weeks after the U.S. government said it wouldn't seek the death penalty for the hate crimes and firearms violations.]()
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![FILE - In this image from video released and partially redacted by the city of Memphis, Tenn., Tyre Nichols lies on the ground during a brutal attack by Memphis Police officers on Jan. 7, 2023, in Memphis. Officials said Tuesday, Feb. 7, that a total of 13 Memphis officers could end up being disciplined in connection with the violent arrest of Nichols, as city council members expressed frustration with the city’s police and fire chiefs during a meeting for not moving quickly on specific policy reforms in the month since Nichols’ brutal beating. (City of Memphis via AP, File)]()
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![FILE - This booking photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate John Balentine, who was convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas Panhandle home more than 25 years ago. Balentine was set to receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, but on Tuesday, Jan. 31, a judge delayed it because the inmate’s attorneys had not been properly notified of the execution date and warrant outlining the lethal injection. Such notification is required under state law. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)]()
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![FILE - Filmmaker Ken Burns walks with inmate Rahsaan Thomas at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., on July 24, 2019. Thomas, a co-host of Ear Hustle, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, was released from San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday, Feb. 8,2023, a year after California's governor commuted his sentence.]()
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![FILE - A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. On Tuesday, Feb. 7, President Joe Biden faced harsh rebukes from multiple angles as he spoke during his State of the Union address about trying to contain a drug overdose crisis driven by powerful illicit synthetic opioids like fentanyl, that has been killing more than 100,000 people a year in the U.S. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)]()
