Norfolk Southern will give some workers paid sick days, bowing to union pressure following the derailment of one of its trains earlier this month. The agreement, which the company announced Wednesday, provides sick time to roughly 3,000 unionized track maintenance workers. The deal allows employees to take four paid sick days …

Rep. David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat who served as a House impeachment manager during former President Trump’s second impeachment process, will leave Congress to be the CEO of a foundation, he announced Tuesday.  Cicilline, 61, will leave Congress on June 1, a year and a half before his seventh …

The sale of the collection of the late fashion icon and author André Leon Talley has netted nearly $3.6 million at Christie’s Auction House, according to numbers released Wednesday, which included custom-made Louis Vuitton trunks and art by Andy Warhol. The live auction, which closed Tuesday, contained 66 total items, including pieces …

Chipotle Mexican Grill is launching a spinoff restaurant, Farmesa, that will serve up customizable bowls focusing on healthier foods, the fast-casual chain announced Wednesday. Farmesa won’t have a dining room and instead will take orders for takeout or delivery. Chipotle is testing the spinoff in Santa Monica, California, in partnership …

The gunman who killed 10 people and injured three more in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket last year was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison without parole. The sentencing came during a tense hearing in which someone in the audience rushed at the gunman …

Longtime Biden aide Kate Bedingfield is leaving the White House and her role as communications director — for real this time — and will be replaced by another longtime Biden ally, Ben LaBolt.  The White House had previously announced that Bedingfield would be departing last summer, but she made a last-minute …

The high-flying tech industry is facing a reckoning as the economy slows and customers pull back on spending. In the past month alone, tech companies have cut nearly 60,000 jobs, reversing a hiring spree that surged during the pandemic as millions of Americans moved their lives online. IBM was one of …

Seven more officers with the Memphis Police Department may be disciplined in the aftermath of Tyre Nichols’ death last month, officials said on Tuesday, bringing to 13 the number whose actions are in focus. During a city council meeting, which focused on officers’ conduct during the violent arrest that left Nichols …

New day, new tunnel. President Biden on Tuesday traveled to New York to showcase a $292 million grant that will be used to help build a critical new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey, part of a broader effort to draw a contrast between his …

The body of a 96-year-old woman was found in a freezer in a garage in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago Monday night, CBS Chicago’s Chris Tye reports. Police took the freezer from the detached rear garage of a two-family home. Police also stood outside to secure the scene and …