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Train Carrying GOP Lawmakers Hits Garbage Truck In Virginia

At least one person was killed and another seriously injured when an Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress hit a truck in rural Virginia.

Updated at 12:50 p.m.

A train carrying House and Senate Republicans to their annual retreat in West Virginia has struck a garbage truck near Charlottesville, Va., according to multiple social media reports from members of Congress aboard the train.

At least one

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