Woman dies from being pushed into San Francisco-area commuter train

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A homeless man allegedly pushed a 74-year-old woman into an arriving San Francisco Bay Area commuter train, killing her, police said Tuesday. Authorities with Bay Area Rapid Transit, better known as BART, said in a statement that the woman hit her head on the...

A look at stampedes and crowd disasters in India over the years

More than 100 people were killed in a stampede Tuesday in northern India following a Hindu religious gathering, making it one of the deadliest such accidents in recent years. Thousands had gathered at a makeshift tent for a religious event led by a Hindu preacher in Hathras district...

Today in History: July 2, Civil Rights Act signed into law

Today in History Today is Tuesday, July 2, the 184th day of 2024. There are 182 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress...

Republican JD Vance journeys from 'Hillbilly Elegy' memoirist to US senator to VP contender

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It was March 2022 and Senate candidate JD Vance was standing under hot lights in a Cleveland television studio debating four fellow Republicans on whether the U.S. should support a no-fly zone over Ukraine, not a month into its grinding war with Russia. ...

Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat

PHOENIX (AP) — Alfred Handley leaned back in his wheelchair alongside a major Phoenix freeway as a street medicine team helped him get rehydrated with an intravenous saline solution dripping from a bag hanging on a pole. Cars whooshed by under the blazing 96-degree morning sun as...

Slovak train and bus collision that killed 7 was likely caused by human error, minister says

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A collision between a EuroCity train with a bus in southern Slovakia that left seven people dead was likely caused by human error, the Slovak transport minister said on Friday. Some 200 people were aboard the train traveling from the Czech capital of...

Prague-to-Budapest train collides with a bus in Slovakia, killing 7 people and injuring 5

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A train traveling from the Czech capital of Prague to the Hungarian capital of Budapest collided with a local bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, leaving at least seven people dead and five injured, officials said. Some 200 people were aboard the...

Officials evacuate area after train derails in suburban Chicago

Emergency officials ordered what turned out to be a relatively brief evacuation after a freight train derailed in suburban Chicago on Thursday. The Canadian National Railway train derailed in the village of Matteson around 10:30 a.m. The company issued a statement about 1:30 p.m....

No injuries reported after train derails in Chicago suburb; workers look for possible hazardous materials leak

Officials say a train collision with a bus in southern Slovakia has killed four people and left five injured