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Cars from an Amtrak train that derailed rest near a train signal near Joplin, Mont. The westbound Empire Builder was en route to Seattle from Chicago with two locomotives and 10 cars.

Investigators Want To Know What Caused An Amtrak Train To Derail In Montana

The westbound train, Empire Builder, was on its way from Chicago to Seattle when it left the tracks Saturday after near Joplin, Mont., killing three people.

Robert "Bob" Moses, who was an organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) questions about Freedom Summer in 1964, during a national youth summit hosted by the Smithsonian in Jackson, Miss.

Civil Rights Activist Bob Moses Dies At 86

Moses was a civil rights crusader and educator who led Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s.

Amy Tripp at her new home in Big Pine Key, Florida. She closed early to buy it before federal flood insurance rates rose by thousands of dollars. Her rate will still go up more slowly over time.

Flood insurance rates are spiking for many, to account for climate risk

FEMA says its new rates better reflect the risk from more intense and frequent rain and floods. The increase could make housing unaffordable for some in the most flood-prone areas.

Here, a burned truck is pictured in a destroyed neighborhood in Louisville, Colo. Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire.

2 remain missing after the Colorado fire. Survivors are counting their blessings

The missing persons toll has dropped after one person was found alive. Residents who escaped the flames that destroyed some 1,000 homes returned to sort through what was left.

Crime scene tape on Sunday at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., after a fatal shooting.

Parishioners stop gunman in deadly California church attack

A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five before parishioners hog-tied him with electrical cords.

Nutritionist Shaunté Fields and bus driver Treva White, left, deliver meals to children and their families in Seattle. When schools closed because of COVID-19, Seattle Public Schools began distributing breakfast and lunch to students through a network of 26 school sites and 43 bus routes five days a week.

Millions of children will miss healthy school meals when pandemic relief expires

A boost in funds and flexibility in how food is prepared and packaged was a lifeline for kids coping with hunger. But these measures, passed in response to COVID-19, expire in June, with no extension.

Santorum Fights Filibuster, Faces Tough Election

Andrea Seabrook reports on what Pennsylvanians think of the role Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) is playing in the effort to limit the right to filibuster judicial nominees. Santorum is known as a strong social conservative and faces a tough re-election bid in Pennsylvania.

A case challenging Florida's transgender athlete law will depend on a related case under appeal

The outcome of a landmark civil rights lawsuit being waged over Florida’s new law banning transgender girls from girls’ sports teams in schools may depend on the verdict in a related legal battle, a judge has ruled.

Amanda Gorman says she wrote "The Hill We Climb" — which she read at President Biden's inauguration — "so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment." Gorman is seen here in February, at the Grammy Awards.

1 complaint led a Florida school to restrict access to Amanda Gorman's famous poem

One week after a parent complained, Gorman's The Hill We Climb was moved. The NAACP chapter in Miami says it wants "to ensure that it takes more than one form to remove our history and heritage."

Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in his own home told a 911 dispatcher, "I thought it was my apartment" several times as she waited for emergency responders to arrive. Guyger is charged in the September, 2018 killing of Botham Jean.

Trial Begins For Former Dallas Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Neighbor

Amber Guyger, who is white, said she entered the wrong apartment thinking it was her own, and shot Botham Shem Jean, 26, because she thought he was a burglar. Her trial begins on Monday.

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