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This is AP News Minute.

Republicans are celebrating after their tax bill passed the Senate by a 51-48 vote. House votes again Wednesday. The GOP says the plan will help middle class families but democrats call it a giveaway for the rich.

Investigators are trying to figure out why the Amtrak train that derailed in Washington State was going more than twice the speed limit. Early details indicate a conductor-in-training was in the cab with the engineer when the train went off the rails.

Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston has died. He was 86. Back in 2002 it was revealed that Law and other church leaders transfered priests that molested children without notifying police, parents.

And a dozen people are dead, about twenty others injured including seven Americans when a bus carrying cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins flipped over in Southern Mexico.

Matt Small, the Associated Press, with the AP News Minute.