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WASHINGTON — For the two front-runners in the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination races, there’s no place like home. Polls show Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump with double-digit leads heading into the New York primary on Tuesday, and both candidates are hoping that strong victories on their home-court will reset their respective races and catapult them toward the finish line. If the two New Yorkers can close out their home state — Clinton is targeting minority voters... Читать дальше...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The second of three former teachers accused of having inappropriate sexual relationships with students at a western Pennsylvania high school has pleaded guilty to charges in the case. Forty-one-year-old Joseph Ruggieri was sentenced to two to five years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in Allegheny County Court to institutional sex assault and corruption of minors.

(AP) — A New York City man accused of harassing relatives of a teacher killed in the Newtown school massacre has been sentenced to two years of probation as part of a plea deal. Mills was accused of approaching a sister of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Victoria Soto during a charity road race in November and angrily claiming the shootings never took place.

LONDON — The British government outlined the central argument Monday it hopes will persuade voters to stay in the European Union, publishing a detailed economic analysis finding that Britons will be poorer if they quit. The release of the publication by the Treasury, complete with complex algebraic calculations, is an important moment before a referendum, to take place June 23, on whether Britain should end more than four decades of integration and quit the 28-nation bloc. Some critics quickly... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed sharp skepticism about President Barack Obama's immigration efforts Monday, leaving his actions to help millions of people who are in the country illegally in the hands of a seemingly divided court. President Barack Obama's administration is asking the justices to allow it to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States. The new program for parents... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is "increasingly optimistic" that voting at the Republican National Convention in July will go to a second ballot, seeming to suggest he does not want to see Donald Trump become the nominee. The Kentucky Republican has studiously sought to remain neutral in public, although he has on occasion condemned Trump's remarks and reportedly told senators in private earlier this year that down-ballot Republicans might drop Trump "like a hot... Читать дальше...

Back in 1990, a small, independently made film called “The Moneytree,” about a young marijuana grower in Marin County and the difficulties he encounters in growing and selling his crop, was popular at the Mill Valley Film Festival. “This peculiar picture has something,” Chronicle Movie Critic Mick LaSalle wrote at the time. [...] the star of the film and the director’s son, Christopher Dienstag, is starting a fundraising campaign to restore the film in order to use it to help push for marijuana legalization... Читать дальше...

Members of the Nontenure-Track Faculty Coalition Local 6546 hope the limited strike and picketing gives school administrators at the Urbana-Champaign campus appreciation for non-tenured faculty as the two sides try to find common ground on a contract they've been negotiating since October 2014, said Shawn Gilmore, the union president and a literature lecturer. Union members typically work on one-year contracts and are not part of the tenure system that offers professors and others job protections. Читать дальше...

BAGHDAD — The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year, U.S. defense officials said Monday. Of the additional troops announced Monday, most would be Army special forces, who have been used throughout the anti-Islamic State campaign to advise and assist the Iraqis. Americans will fly the helicopters — which provide... Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM — A bus exploded in Jerusalem on Monday, wounding at least 21 people in what police said was a “terror attack,” raising fears of a return to the Palestinian suicide bombings that ravaged Israeli cities a decade ago. Israel says most of the Palestinians killed were attackers, with the rest killed in clashes with security forces. An Israeli military court on Monday charged a soldier with manslaughter after he was caught on video fatally shooting a wounded Palestinian attacker, a decision... Читать дальше...

Tax lawyer annoyed by paying taxes denied law license return (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia lawyer with a master's degree in taxation who told Pennsylvania ethics investigators he found paying taxes to be "annoying" isn't getting back his law license.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The prosecutor who launched two secret John Doe probes of Gov. Scott Walker's associates and his recall campaign is running for a fourth term. The other looked into whether Walker's 2012 gubernatorial recall campaign illegally coordinated with outside conservative groups.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables — an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers. The Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune received the investigative reporting prize for a project on mental hospitals, and the Tampa Bay Times also won in local reporting for studying the effects of ending school integration in Pinellas County, Florida. Читать дальше...

Or were dinosaurs already struggling, and the disruptive effects of the asteroid pushed them over the edge to extinction? Two other groups showed increases rather than declines; if their results are included, the overall time for the start of dinosaur decline shrinks to 24 million years before the final demise. Declining groups include two-legged carnivores like T. rex and the immense, long-necked, four-legged plant eaters known as sauropods. The results support the idea that the asteroid strike pushed a struggling group into extinction... Читать дальше...

The Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune have won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for a project on mental hospitals. The Tampa Bay Times also won the local reporting category for studying the effects of education in Pinellas County, Florida, when schools in poor neighborhoods were essentially desegregated and neglected. The dazzling, exuberant musical by creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has captured popular consciousness like few Broadway shows, having already won a Grammy Award... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Louisiana lawmakers' third attempt to advance a bill establishing regulations governing surrogacy births has passed its first test. Without objection Monday, the House civil law committee supported a proposal to create a state surrogacy framework.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether federal felony charges can be filed against defendants who were previously convicted of multiple domestic violence counts in tribal courts that didn't provide attorneys. In domestic violence cases, a decade-old law has sought to combat high assault rates on reservations by transferring cases involving offenders with multiple convictions to the federal courts for possible stiffer punishments. Federal data show nearly... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is "increasingly optimistic" that voting at the Republican National Convention in July will go to a second ballot. The Kentucky Republican's comments seem to suggest that — although he has sought to remain publicly neutral — he does not want to see front-runner Donald Trump emerge as the GOP presidential nominee.

PHOENIX (AP) — A 70-year-old woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on convictions stemming from a 2014 wrong-way fatal crash on a Gilbert freeway. According to authorities, Murphy drove the wrong way on Loop 202 before her car collided head-on with another vehicle on May 18, 2014.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Hamilton," the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama, honoring creator Lin-Manuel Miranda for a dazzling musical has captured popular consciousness like few Broadway shows. Miranda, 36, who wrote the music and story, already has a Tony for creating the Broadway musical "In the Heights," a show which was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2009 and this month won three Olivier Awards in London. The album for "Hamilton" won a Grammy Award... Читать дальше...

Bill Campbell, a prominent tech executive who helped advise Silicon Valley companies like Apple and Google, passed away from cancer Monday morning. “His contribution to the success of Google and now Alphabet is incalculable,” wrote Eric Schmidt, chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent company in a public Facebook post. A friend suggested he look into the world of advertising, which caused Mr. Campbell to go on a track that would help him play a role in building some of today’s most powerful tech companies. Читать дальше...

WALNUT, Iowa (AP) — The city of Walnut is debating how to best preserve a historic school building as it prepares to launch a new school district this summer. The Daily Nonpareil (http://bit.ly/1rb8qGW ) reports that it's unknown what will happen to the building when the Walnut Community School District merges with the Avoca-based AHST district July 1.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada state AG charging prison guard trainee with manslaughter in 2014 inmate shotgun slaying.