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Illinois chemical plant explosion, fires prompt evacuations

CHICAGO (AP) ??" An explosion at a northern Illinois chemical plant Monday morning sparked massive fires that sent flames and huge plumes of thick black smoke high into the air and debris raining onto the ground, prompting evacuations.

After 7 a.m., emergency crews rushed to the scene of the fire near Rockton, northwest of Chicago, at Chemtool Inc., a company that manufactures lubricants, grease products and other fluids, and is, according to the company, the largest manufacturer of grease in the Americas.

Rockton Fire Department Chief Kirk Wilson said about 70... Read More

Cabinet secretaries launch roadshow to sell the Biden plan

WASHINGTON (AP) ??" Marty Walsh remembers what it was like when a Cabinet secretary would come to town.

"It really is a big deal. They give you the dates, and you just clear your schedule," said Walsh, a former mayor of Boston.

He recalls 300 people packing into a room to hear Julián Castro, then Housing and Urban Development secretary. "He was speaking on behalf of President Obama and Vice President Biden, and people hung on every word."

Now Walsh, as secretary of labor, is on the other side of the equation, crisscrossing the country on behalf of President... Read More

1 dead 7 hurt in vehicle crash at West Texas mud race

FABENS, Texas (AP) ??" A 21-year-old man was killed and seven other people were injured when a vehicle crashed through a guardrail and plowed into a crowd at a mud racing event in Texas, officials said Monday.

The crash happened at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday at a racetrack in Fabens, Texas, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of El Paso and less than a mile from the Mexican border, the El Paso County Sheriff's Department said.

Eight people were taken to a hospital, including three spectators in critical condition, the sheriff's department said in a statement. Willie... Read More

As US COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist

Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts.

"I have to be here to watch my princess grow up," the Mexican American restaurant worker wrote on Facebook. "My heart feels broken into pieces."

Ramos didn't live to see it. He died Feb. 15 at age 32, becoming not just one of the nearly 600,000 Americans who have now perished in the coronavirus outbreak but another example of the outbreak's strikingly uneven and ever-shifting toll on the nation's... Read More

US Catholic bishops meet amid divisions on Communion policy

When U.S. Catholic bishops convene virtually for a national meeting Wednesday, they will be divided ideologically as well as physically. They're split over whether to press ahead with an initiative that could ??" at least implicitly ??" rebuke President Joe Biden for receiving Communion while supporting abortion rights.

For a body that strives to appear unified and fraternal, it's a highly contentious issue, testing the extent to which the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can work constructively with the Biden administration and whether bishops heed appeals for restraint from... Read More

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Illinois chemical plant explosion, fires prompt evacuations

Cabinet secretaries launch roadshow to sell the Biden plan

1 dead 7 hurt in vehicle crash at West Texas mud race

As US COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist

US Catholic bishops meet amid divisions on Communion policy

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