—Authorities are investigating the airplane crash in Colombia that killed 75 of 81 people on board Monday night. Fans mourned the members of a Brazilian soccer team that perished in the crash, and who were scheduled to play in the final of a major South American tournament Wednesday.
—Severe storms resulted in the deaths of five people in Alabama and Tennessee overnight.
—President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Steven Mnuchin, a Hollywood financier who worked at Goldman Sachs, as Treasury secretary. Trump on Monday picked Georgia congressman Tom Price for Health and Human Services secretary and Elaine Chao for labor secretary, a position she held under George W. Bush.
—We’re live-blogging the news stories of the day below. All updates are in Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5).
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