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Tragedy and chaos struck during evening rush hour north of New York City Tuesday, when a packed commuter train traveling up to 60 mph struck an SUV straddling the tracks, killing the vehicle's driver and five people aboard the train and sending the electrified third rail up through the floor of a crowded car.

Panicked and bleeding passengers clawed and scrambled through the flaming and

In the massive 2020 field, candidates like California Senator Kamala Harris are struggling to differentiate themselves and gain traction. The upcoming debates could shake things up – or not.

Kamala Harris has always been a trailblazer. As the daughter of immigrant parents – her mother came from India and her father from Jamaica – she was the first woman elected (twice) as California’s

President Barack Obama plans to dramatically boost the U.S. effort to mitigate the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including greater involvement of the U.S. military, people familiar with the proposal said.

Mr. Obama is expected to detail the plan during a visit Tuesday to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, these people said. Among the possible moves: sending

Donald Trump, at long last, has won them over.

Amid the campaign's final frenzy, there are encouraging signs that Trump's slow-to-build money operation has matured to presidential caliber, but alarm persists that it may be too late to combat Hillary Clinton's big-dollar machine, according to a dozen people with ties to Trump's finance team.