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WASHINGTON (AP) — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep. That's according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that shows the Republican front-runner saddled with unprecedented unpopularity. Seven in 10 Americans, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of Trump. It's an opinion shared by majorities of men and women; young and old; conservatives, moderates and liberals; and whites, Hispanics and blacks.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amtrak has been ordered to immediately retrain track workers on basic safety rules. The order from the Federal Railroad Administration comes four days after a passenger train struck and killed two Amtrak employees near Philadelphia. The order suggests that the workers who were killed Sunday may not have been told that the track was being reopened to train traffic. Amtrak is being told to reinforce the rule that a track will not be reopened until all workers have either left the area or been warned about an approaching train.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is refusing to come to the aid of airline passengers squeezed by the ever-shrinking size of their seats. An amendment by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York would have blocked airlines from further reducing the "size, width, padding, and pitch" of seats -- the pitch being the distance from a seat to the one in front of it. Airlines would also have been kept from further cutting back on passengers' legroom and the width of aisles. The proposal failed by a vote of 42-54. Economy-class airline seats have shrunk in recent years on average from a width of 18 inches to 16.5 inches.
NEW YORK (AP) — High school students who get too little sleep — or too much — are also more likely to drive drunk or take other risks. That's the finding of a government survey of more than 50,000 high school students. Researchers said they don't know if sleep issues cause teens to take dangerous risks, or whether both are a reflection of depression or other problems.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As the baseball season gets under way, some documents that are going up for sale establish "Doc" Adams -- and not Alexander Cartwright -- as the game's founding father. Experts including Major League Baseball's official historian have verified the authenticity of the documents, from 1857, which spell out the "Rules of Base Ball." Ninety feet between the bases, nine players on the field, nine innings in a game. The documents are dated three years earlier than what had been considered baseball's birth date.
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