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...Republican primary: New Hampshire will host its Republican presidential primary after Donald Trump dominated the Iowa caucuses last week....
...On February 3, a 150-car train travelling from Illinois to Pennsylvania left the tracks and caught fire near East Palestine, a village along Ohio’s eastern border....
...In the segregated military of those days, he served in an all-black regiment in Europe, repairing railroads and maintaining supply lines. After he was demobilised, Yoakum began to drift....
...Books Martin Wolf rounds up the best new books on economics, including an “outstanding” new title by Christopher Blattman from the University of Chicago called Why We Fight....
...Corn from Iowa to Mexico....
...Three weeks ago the south-eastern US state’s daily infection count was more than 6,000....
...The number of trains moving goods from California’s massive twin ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, to Chicago has dropped from roughly 50 a week to 25, BNSF Railway’s general manager for the eastern region...
...Lucy and her sister Grace, also born in China, had come home to Chicago from their universities in the US Midwest so that we could celebrate the lunar new year as a family, just as we did when they were...
...Next month, the first presidential primary contests in Iowa will unofficially kick off the 2020 US election campaign....
..., and Ron Wyden, the Democratic senator from Iowa....
...The family would board a train in wintry upstate New York, change at Chicago and arrive to be picked up by grandpa at a rail stop in Iowa. It was a grand adventure....
...An 2018 analysis by Iowa State University published before the swine fever outbreak concluded that China could import $8.9bn more US pork once tariffs were gone....
...The current wave of cases began in Georgia in 2007 and spread to parts of eastern Europe and Russia before reaching China in August....
...An Iowa State University analysis estimated costs per bushel for the most commonly planted soyabean varieties at between $8.86 and $9.21....
...Mr Griffin’s Chicago-based Citadel Securities has become the largest of a new breed of share traders....
...In response, lean hogs futures, which track a key input for Tyson, fell by the daily limit of 3 cents to 89.75 cents per lb Monday in Chicago....
...The purchase in 1982 of Hummelo, a smallholding in eastern Holland, allowed him to develop an encyclopedic knowledge of plants....
...can prove that the railroad’s actions harm buyers in Chicago....
...Mike Pence, vice-president, is due to visit Iowa on a tour of bedrock Trump voters in the Midwest on Wednesday....
...Chicago’s futures markets have been unfazed by the trade rhetoric....
...Justin Rose, a Chicago-based partner at The Boston Consulting Group, said that for the past 10 to 15 years, the southern states had been competing hard to attract manufacturing....
...It includes areas that voted heavily for Mr Trump in 2016 as well as crucial swing states such as Iowa....
...His parents’ home served as a way station for the Underground Railroad....
...The former Iowa governor says part of the problem is that the Trump administration lacks an effective rural voice....
...The pursuit of NS, which became public in November, followed a similar quest by CP in October 2014 to win over CSX, the biggest railroad in the eastern US. That was also abandoned....
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