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Federal regulators ordered in-depth inspections Tuesday at a nuclear power plant run by the Tennessee Valley Authority in northern Alabama after deciding the failure of an emergency cooling system there could have been a serious safety problem.

Federal regulators told Congress on Tuesday that they would become more aggressive in enforcing mine safety laws, vowing to close mines with repeated safety violations and shut down sections of mines when inspectors find ...

U.S. lawmakers moved Thursday to obtain internal company documents that a former Toyota official alleges show the auto maker hid safety defects from federal regulators. Separately, Toyota's president agreed to testify before Congress.