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U.S. investigators release more details on 2015 Amtrak crash
For Brazil's rich and poor, disparate response to Zika
Iowa on our minds, as the campaign nears its climax
Taking a stand in Flint, or fleeing: Residents weigh the future
Attorney: Corrections officer fired during deadly brawl
Candidates make their final pitches before Iowa caucuses

U.S. investigators release more details on 2015 Amtrak crash

Posted: 01 Feb 2016 10:54 AM PST

Federal investigators on Monday released thousands of pages about the fatal derailment of an Amtrak passenger train last year in Philadelphia, but the central mystery of what caused the crash remained unexplained. The documents, posted online by the National Transportation Safety Board, include interviews with the train's engineer, Brandon Bostian, who told investigators he had no recollection of the moments before the accident. An Amtrak regional train headed from Washington, D.C., to New York, went off the tracks on May 12 along a northbound curve in Philadelphia while traveling at more than twice the 50 mile-per-hour (80 kilometer-per-hour) speed limit.

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For Brazil's rich and poor, disparate response to Zika

Posted: 01 Feb 2016 02:47 AM PST

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories.

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Iowa on our minds, as the campaign nears its climax

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 11:48 PM PST

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Taking a stand in Flint, or fleeing: Residents weigh the future

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 08:56 PM PST

The vacant lots and crumbling houses that line a vast majority of the city's streets are evidence of Flint's descent from the home of General Motors — a bustling company town with a population of close to 200,000 — into the country's murder capital, with a population down by roughly half from its peak in 1960, and a poverty rate of more than 41 percent.

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Attorney: Corrections officer fired during deadly brawl

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 05:07 PM PST

DENVER (AP) — An attorney says a Colorado Department of Corrections officer fired his gun during a weekend brawl at a Denver motorcycle show that left one dead and seven others injured.