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A look back at women's rights movements
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March is Women’s History Month. Take a look back at a history of women’s rights movements from past to present. See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr
Deadly Mississippi train-bus collision
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A freight train smashed into a charter bus in a coastal Mississippi city on Tuesday, pushing the bus 300 feet down the tracks and leaving at least four people dead, authorities said. Rescuers spent more than an hour removing passengers, cutting through the bus’s heavily damaged frame to extract the last two. The bus was apparently stopped on the tracks when the 52-car train, pulled by three locomotives, slammed into it, said Biloxi Police Chief John Miller.
BBC's Thai transmission towers fall silent as junta talks falter
The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting from one of its major global transmission stations situated in Thailand, AFP has learned, after talks broke down with a junta riled by its uncensored coverage. Sources with knowledge of the negotiations said the BBC's Thai-language output was an obstacle in discussions about renewing the 20-year lease on the complex, one of the network's main shortwave broadcast stations for Asia. The suspension comes as the World Service rolls out its largest foreign-language expansion for decades.
In the age of Trump, can Democrats turn Orange County blue? Their first target is Darrell Issa
Republican Representative Darrell Issa enters Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 14, 2016. Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days. Since 2001, Issa has represented the coastal suburbs of northern San Diego and southern Orange counties.
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