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Climate change raises concerns for future of marathons and runner safety: Analysis As extreme weather conditions escalate across the world, marathons and long-distance races are succumbing to cancellations due to extreme heat and severe flooding, an occurrence that may intensify in the coming years. The Twin Cities marathon in Minnesota, which has been running for 40 years, experienced its second cancellation on Oct. 1, 2023, this time due to extreme heat. The previous cancellation occurred in 2020 due to COVID-19. Similarly, the TCS New York City Marathon training series 18M was called off on Sept. 30, 2023, due to the severe flooding New York was experiencing. The TCS New York City Marathon went on as scheduled in 2022, but runners experienced a record-hot day resulting in many heat-related injuries. Runners compete in the 2023 Chicago Marathon at Grant Park on Oct. 08, 2023 in Chicago. Michael Reaves/Getty Images The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (...

Federal safety regulators said Tuesday that they plan later this year to begin gathering "data and perspectives" on the "potential hazards associated with gas stoves" Federal safety regulators said Tuesday that they plan later this year to begin gathering "data and perspectives" on the " potential hazards associated with gas stove s." In a statement, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) clarified that it has not proposed any regulatory action on the appliances at this time. Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News in an interview published Monday that the stove s were "a hidden hazard" and "any option is on the table." "Products that can't be made safe can be banned," Trumka said. New regulation on the appliances would only apply to new products, Trumka later wrote in a tweet. "My guiding duty is protecting consumer health and safety. Gas stoves can emit dangerous level of toxic chemi...

ABC News' Jonathan Karl sat down with Eric Adams, Karen Bass and Sylvester Turner in Washington For the first time in history, Black mayors are leading America's four largest cities. ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl recently sat down with three of them -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner -- in Washington, D.C., on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the countries' mayors. "It's a moment for us," Adams told Karl in the interview, which aired on ABC's "This Week." "It's a moment that we are now really going after those tough challenges and historical problems that we fought for many years to be in the driver's seat." Turner, who was first elected in 2016 and is currently serving a second term, said that while their mayoralities signal that "progress is being made," he hopes that enough Black mayors are elected "to th...