Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1.
Pyongyang residents filled the streets to celebrate the birthday of founding father Kim Il Sung, oblivious to tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch.
2.
Chavez’ chosen successor, Vice President Nicholas Maduro narrowly defeated challenger Henrique Capriles by about 300,000 votes.
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At least 32 were killed, mostly by car bombs, and more than 200 wounded days before Iraqis were to vote in the first elections since the 2011 troop withdrawal.
4.
Approval could help the multi-billion dollar biotechnology business, but critics say it will slow down lifesaving medical research.
5.
Eric Lyle Williams, in jail since this weekend, was convicted of theft in a case prosecuted by Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland.
6.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she would vote for a compromise on background checks, and Sen. John McCain said he was “favorably disposed” to it.
7.
It took rescue groups five or six hours to reach the snowshoer after a pair of spring avalanches struck hiking groups in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle.
8.
A court ruling casts a harsh light on using planted, unattended wallets and “bait cars” to snare crooks.
9.
The pop star wrote in an Amsterdam museum guest book that he hopes the Holocaust victim “would have been a Belieber.”
10.
Adam Scott beats Angel Cabrera on the second hole of a soggy playoff to win the Masters.
