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A commuter train hit a vacant parked car at the 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby, 10 miles west of Philadelphia, around 12:15 a.m. The crash injured 42 passengers.

The University of Texas at Austin removed the statues of three Confederate-era figures from a main area on campus on Monday. They were taken down secretly during the night to avoid protesters, especially after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12 when white nationalists protesting against the planned removal of a statue of Confederate military leader Robert E. Lee. 

Monday August 21, 2017 marks the first total solar eclipse to unfold from coast to coast in nearly a century. An eclipse is the moon’s shadow passing directly in front of the sun, blotting out all but a halo-like solar corona. 

An American citizen was confirmed dead in attacks in Barcelona, Spain U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed Friday. A suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds killing 13 people and wounding many others. 

The Senate has to weigh charges against President Trump from an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, but that’s not stopping him from putting the pressure on Republican Senators. More than half of the 11 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, have got into it with the Republican president about varying issues.