WASHINGTON (AP) — Commuters in the nation's capital returned to their regular routines Thursday morning after an unprecedented daylong shutdown of the Washington subway system that revealed more than two dozen places in need of urgent repair.
The Metro system reopened at 5 a.m. Thursday, and the morning rush hour was largely uneventful, with trains on all lines running on time and packed as usual with federal workers and other commuters from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, some of whom stayed home on Wednesday because they had few attractive options for getting to work.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday blamed career bureaucrats in Washington and his own state for the Flint water-contamination crisis, while the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency faulted him and other state officials.
At a contentious congressional hearing, the Republican governor repeatedly apologized for his role in the crisis, which occurred when state officials switched Flint's water supply to the Flint River two years ago to save money in the predominantly African-American city of 100,000 north of Detroit.
