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- TPC Port Neches, Texas blast due to 'fundamental failure': U.S. safety board December 5, 2019A Nov. 27 explosion at the TPC Group petrochemical plant in Port Neches, Texas, was due to a "fundamental failure in the system," U.S. Chemical Safety Board member Manuel Ehrlich said on Thursday.
- Second evacuation order lifted in Texas city hit by explosion, chemical fire December 5, 2019Authorities on Thursday lifted a second evacuation order in a week for thousands of people in a Texas city as U.S. safety officials began examining what caused the latest in a series of chemical plant fires in the state.
- Texas City lifts evacuation after air levels of cancer-causing chemical drop: officials December 5, 2019Thousands of residents of an East Texas city who fled elevated air levels of cancer-causing petrochemicals were allowed to return to their homes on Thursday after leaks at a chemical plant were halted, officials said.
- Biden finally finds social media buzz with viral Trump video, voter spat December 5, 2019For a candidate who has at times struggled to get noticed on social media, Joe Biden finally got some online attention on Thursday - for better or worse.
- U.S. health spending recovers after two slow years: CMS December 5, 2019U.S. healthcare spending recovered in 2018 after two consecutive years of decline, a government health agency reported on Thursday.
- U.S. Navy investigators search for motive in Pearl Harbor shooting rampage December 5, 2019U.S. Navy investigators on Thursday were trying to determine what prompted a sailor to shoot three civilians working at the historic Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii, killing two of them, before taking his own life with the same gun.
- EPA chief says agency working to address biofuels industry concerns over blending mandates: source December 5, 2019U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a biofuels company in a phone call on Thursday that the agency is working to address industry concerns over biofuel blending requirements that have sparked outrage across the Farm Belt, according to a source familiar with the matter.
- Emotion-sensing robot launches to assist space station astronauts December 5, 2019An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from Florida on Thursday, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit.
- GM, LG Chem to build $2.3 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio December 5, 2019General Motors Co and South Korea's LG Chem said on Thursday they will invest $2.3 billion to build an electric vehicle battery cell joint venture plant in Ohio, creating one of the world's largest battery facilities.
- Trump administration sued over new social media disclosure rules December 5, 2019Two documentary film groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging Trump administration rules adopted this year that require nearly all visitors to the United States to disclose social media user information from the last five years.