| Live updates: April 26 presidential primaries Posted: 26 Apr 2016 01:30 PM PDT On Tuesday, April 26, five states makes their picks in the Republican and Democratic primaries. Join us for the latest news from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, with a live results show hosted by Olivier Knox and Matt Bai as well as minute-by-minute updates in our live blog. |
| Trump’s campaign chief ducks questions about ties to Russian billionaire Posted: 26 Apr 2016 02:40 PM PDT  Paul Manafort on "Meet the Press" earlier this month. A court in the Cayman Islands has sought to question Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's chief campaign aide, to determine what happened to $26.2 million invested by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a Cayman Islands partnership with the political consultant, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News. Court-appointed liquidators from the Cayman Islands last summer initiated a legal action in federal court in Alexandria, Va., seeking to question Manafort and two business partners under oath about a business deal between them and firms controlled by Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate who for years was barred from entering the United States over allegations of ties to organized crime.
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| After Tuesday, will Bernie Sanders’ tone pave way for concession? Posted: 26 Apr 2016 04:51 AM PDT  Polls suggest that Sen. Bernie Sanders is poised to lose Maryland and Pennsylvania in key races Tuesday, raising questions about whether the progressive candidate — who continues to raise millions of dollars from his passionate supporters — will adopt a more unifying tone as his chances for the Democratic nomination fade. During last week's New York primary, Sanders sounded a defiant note as he lost the delegate-rich state, fiercely criticizing rival Hillary Clinton in an hourlong speech at Penn State University. By Sunday, however, Sanders was already striking a more conciliatory note.
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| After leading in Black Lives Matter, DeRay Mckesson finds himself trailing in his bid to become Baltimore mayor Posted: 26 Apr 2016 03:09 PM PDT  Activist, DeRay McKesson is running for mayor of Baltimore. BALTIMORE — There was one moment during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, when DeRay Mckesson says he feared a casual gesture might cost him life. According to Mckesson, the incident occurred in the first few days of the demonstrations that engulfed the city following the August 9, 2014 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson cop.
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| Prince too weak to walk off plane after emergency landing; bodyguard carried him, records reveal Posted: 26 Apr 2016 10:39 AM PDT A week before his unexpected death, Prince was so weak that his bodyguard had to carry him off a private jet when the aircraft made an emergency landing in the middle of the night in western Illinois, according to fire and ambulance records released Tuesday. |
| Trump hits 50 percent in national GOP poll for the first time Posted: 26 Apr 2016 09:12 AM PDT  While Republican frontrunner Donald Trump still needs more than 300 delegates to reach 1,237 — the magic number needed to secure the GOP presidential nomination — he has finally reached a key milestone in his bid for the White House: support from half of the country's likely Republican voters. According to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey national tracking poll released Tuesday, 50 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they support the real estate mogul's candidacy, compared to the 26 percent who support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and the 17 percent who are backing Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Trump's double-digit lead over his GOP rivals is one reason Cruz and Kasich banded together this week in an effort to block the brash billionaire from winning the GOP nomination.
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| Hillary Clinton: Half of my Cabinet will be women Posted: 26 Apr 2016 07:24 AM PDT  Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton says that if she's elected president, at least half of her Cabinet will be women. During a town hall hosted by MSNBC on Monday night, host Rachel Maddow asked Clinton whether she would match a campaign promise Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made good on earlier this year. "He promised when he took office that he would have a Cabinet that was 50 percent women, and then he did it," Maddow said.
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| Jury blames police, clears fans in 1989 soccer disaster Posted: 26 Apr 2016 12:26 PM PDT  WARRINGTON, England (AP) — The families of 96 Liverpool soccer fans who were crushed to death at a crowded stadium in 1989 declared they had finally won justice Tuesday after a jury found that police and emergency services were to blame for Britain's worst sports disaster.
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| Roger Goodell 'pleased' with Brady appeal decision (of course) Posted: 26 Apr 2016 10:45 AM PDT  The NFL commissioner made the comments on Bloomberg TV.
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| Cruz-Kasich pact highlights the importance of Indiana Posted: 26 Apr 2016 03:44 AM PDT  Donald Trump calls it "pathetic," but a new deal between Ted Cruz and John Kasich shows that Indiana could be a make-or-break state for the #NeverTrump movement.
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| Thirty years on, Ukraine mourns victims of Chernobyl Posted: 26 Apr 2016 04:48 PM PDT  Ukrainians held candlelit vigils Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several thousand people dead or dying. Church bells rang and mourners laid flowers at Chernobyl's memorial square as the clock turned 1:23 am -- the moment the plant's reactor number four exploded and changed the fate of a generation living across the former Soviet Union. At least 30 people were killed on site and several thousand more are feared to have died from radiation in what Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said "appears to have been the world's largest man-made catastrophe".
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| Tornado warnings posted in US midsection; hail could be huge Posted: 26 Apr 2016 03:39 PM PDT  Strong thunderstorms capable of dropping grapefruit-sized hail and producing a few intense tornadoes popped up across the central U.S. on Tuesday after forecasters warned that millions of people faced ...
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| Prince's Lawyer: Death a Shock; Singer Led Clean Lifestyle Posted: 25 Apr 2016 07:45 PM PDT  Prince's longtime lawyer called the death of the superstar a complete shock and said Monday that the singer lived a clean and healthy lifestyle, disputing suggestions that he had a drug addiction.
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| Canadian executed by Islamic militants in Philippines: Trudeau Posted: 25 Apr 2016 02:18 PM PDT  Islamic militants in the Philippines have executed a Canadian hostage, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, after the Filipino authorities said they had found the head of a foreign man on a remote island. "I'm outraged by the news that a Canadian citizen, John Ridsdel, held hostage in the Philippines since September 21, 2015, has been killed at the hands of his captors," Trudeau said. Ridsdel, fellow Canadian tourist Robert Hall, Hall's girlfriend Filipina Marites Flor, and Norwegian resort manager Kjartan Sekkingstad were kidnapped seven months ago from yachts at a marina near the major city of Davao, more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from Jolo.
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| Federal judge upholds North Carolina photo ID mandate Posted: 25 Apr 2016 06:38 PM PDT  The judge dismisses lawsuits challenging an election law that requires voters to show photo identification when casting ballots.
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