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1 Train derailed: A freight train traveling on a bridge that spans a lake in a Phoenix suburb derailed Wednesday, setting the bridge ablaze and partially collapsing the structure. Video showed flames and thick black smoke rising into the air and three train cars in a park next to Tempe Town Lake.

2 College admission plea: The founder of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm was sentenced Wednesday to six months behind bars for paying about $450,000 in bribes to boost his two daughters’ entrance exam scores and get one of them into Georgetown University as a bogus tennis recruit. Manuel Henriquez, the 57-year-old founder and ex-CEO of Hercules Capital based in Palo Alto, California, cried and dabbed his eyes with a tissue as he prayed for forgiveness from his children and other families he hurt.

3 Vatican hacked: Chinese hackers infiltrated the Vatican’s computer networks, a private monitoring group concluded, in an apparent espionage effort before sensitive negotiations with Beijing. China officially recognizes five religions, including Catholicism, but authorities often suspect religious groups and worshippers of undermining the Communist Party and the state.

4 Former governor dies: Joseph Kernan, a naval aviator who served nearly a year as a prisoner of war after he was shot down over North Vietnam in 1972, then returned to Indiana to serve as a mayor, lieutenant governor and governor, died in South Bend, Indiana. Kernan, 74, had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease, but the immediate cause of death, in an assisted care facility, was complications from COVID-19.

5 Big donation: Author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced $1.7 billion in donations, including $40 million to Howard University — the largest gift from a single donor in the school’s 153-year history.