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Shortly after a Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a team of investigators began touring the small town in a Nissan pickup.It was February, less than three weeks after the disaster, and the van was equipped with an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which can measure hundreds to thousands of compounds in the air every second. The team was looking for harmful levels of air pollution. At the time, a primary concern was a flammable substance called vinyl chloride, because Norfolk Southern intentionally burned the chemical in an attempt to prevent the possibility of an explosion. Some environmental…

Patrick Mahomes is a two-time Super Bowl champion, two-time NFL MVP, two-time All-Pro, and a five-time Pro Bowler. He is also the father of two children with his high school sweetheart, Brittany.So to whom do you owe part of that success? Mahomes gave the correct answer in a recent interview with People magazine.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Brittany Mahomes, left, and Patrick Mahomes attend the 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2023 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Karl Lagerfeld)"I have a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's air force and navy held a second day of large-scale exercises involving fighter jets, bombers and warships in southern and southwestern Taiwan on Wednesday, the Taiwan Defense Ministry said. the island, while Beijing maintains its military pressure.While China has not commented on the exercises, they are coming less than two weeks before Taiwan holds its own annual drills and as NATO holds a summit where alliance leaders said China challenges their interests, security and values. with its “ambitions and coercive policies”. ”China, which regards democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has for the past…

PARIS (AP) — Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into a satirical exile from totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media reported Wednesday.Kundera's renowned novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," opens harrowingly with Soviet tanks rolling through Prague, the Czech capital that was the author's home until he moved to France in 1975. Weaving together themes of love and exile, politics and The Deeply Personal, Kundera's novel garnered critical acclaim, earning him a large readership among Westerners who embraced both his anti-Soviet subversion and the eroticism that pervades many of his…