By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads' proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation's first coast-to-coast rail network. Roughly 99% of both railroads' shareholders voted to support the ...

By ALLEN G. BREED and ERIK VERDUZCO Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The latest city bracing for the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is Charlotte, North Carolina, which could see an influx of federal agents as early as this weekend, a county sheriff said ...

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges appalling conditions at California's largest immigration detention facility, a formerly mothballed prison in the desert where sewage bubbles up from shower drains and detainees are forced to use ...

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jessica Sweet spent the federal government shutdown cutting back. To make ends meet, the Social Security claims specialist drank only one coffee a day, skipped meals, cut down on groceries and deferred paying some household bills. She ...

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering onto the stern of her boat. Charvet Drucker was on a ...

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man long blamed for the disappearance of his three sons at Thanksgiving in 2010 has been charged with their deaths, court records show. John Skelton is facing three counts of murder and tampering with evidence in the deaths of ...