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• Two cranes are in place to lift the rest of the derailed cars pending approval from the National Transportation and Safety Board.
• Donovan says about 150 people were on board when the train derailed Sunday morning while rounding a riverside curve in the Bronx. More than 60 were injured.
• Donovan says all passengers have been accounted for.
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HealthCare.gov on the mend, government says as self-imposed deadline passes

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Computer crashes should be giving way to insurance coverage -- if the government's diagnosis of its health care website is correct.
• The Health and Human Services Department released a progress report Sunday on its effort get the troubled HealthCare.gov website on the mend. Administration officials said the worst of the online glitches, bugs and delays may be over.
• "The bottom line -- HealthCare.gov on Dec.
1 is night and day from where it was on Oct. 1," said Jeff Zients, the White House's troubleshooter tasked with making the website function properly.
• Yet officials acknowledged more work remains on the website, which made its national debut two months ago with hundreds of software flaws, inadequate equipment and inefficient management. Federal workers and private contractors have undertaken an intense reworking of the system, but some users might still encounter trouble.
• How many problems are left? That's the question consumers and lawmakers alike will be eying before the next crucial deadline: Dec. 23.
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Thai leader says protesters' demands impossible to meet, clashes continue in Thai capital

• BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's prime minister said Monday she is willing to do anything it takes to end violent protests against her government and restore peace, but cannot accept the opposition's "unconstitutional" demand to hand power to an unelected council.
• Yingluck Shinawatra's comments, broadcast in a televised news conference, were the clearest indication yet that negotiations are unlikely to solve the country's increasingly violent political standoff.

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