A Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) freight train hauling grain derailed early Tuesday morning near Kaylor in Hutchinson County, South Dakota. Emergency crews responded around 7 a.m., though BNSF officials say the train derailment occurred closer to 5:15 a.m.
The Supreme Court is taking up a major Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece legislation of the Civil Rights Movement, that could gut a key provision of the law that prohibits racial discrimination in redistricting.