Tag: rails

Riding the rails with New Mexico voters

A stretch of the Rio Grande near the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, as seen from the upper level of the New Mexico Rail Runner. (Photo by Austin Fisher / Source NM) Over the last eight years, I’ve spent many hours outside polling places from Albuquerque to Española begging voters for interviews. This time […]

House Republicans’ Attempts to Attack Fauci Go Wildly Off Rails

Dr. Anthony Fauci visited Capitol Hill on Monday to testify on the origins of Covid-19, but some Republican members on the House Oversight Committee had no intention of asking anything even remotely relevant to scientific inquiry. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was repeatedly grilled by GOP lawmakers who […]

1.5M bed rails under recall for entrapment, asphyxia hazard; 2 deaths reported

May 30—Medline Industries is recalling about 1.5 million adult portable bed rails that pose a risk of entrapment and asphyxia because users can become trapped between the rail and mattress, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday. There has been two reports of entrapment deaths associated with two models of Bed Assist Bar. The […]

Lindsey Graham rails against U.S. pausing shipments of bombs to Israel.

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday questioned senior defense leadership about the United States pausing the shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel — and he appeared to make a comparison to World War II while doing so. “Would you have supported dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki … to end World War II? […]

No comment from Uefa as Thomas Tuchel rails at ‘disastrous decision’

Uefa has offered no comment on what Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel described as a “disastrous decision” by the on-field officials in the dying moments of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid. Polish referee Szymon Marciniak blew his whistle after one of his assistants raised an offside flag, moments before Matthijs de Ligt struck […]