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(CNN)Remember the Tuskegee syphilis experiment from the 1930s? Scientists studied poor African-Americans in Alabama who'd contracted the venereal disease but didn't tell them they had the disease or do anything to cure them. A lawsuit filed this week alleges Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation helpe...	Lawsuit says scientists infected hundreds of Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases . A similar lawsuit filed against the U.S. government was dismissed .
Tokyo (CNN)A week after a Japanese court issued a landmark injunction halting plans to restart two nuclear reactors in a western prefecture, a different court has rejected a petition by residents to delay the reactivation of reactors in the country's southwest. Kagoshima District Court found no "irrationalities" in new...	A Japanese court has rejected a petition by residents to delay the reactivation of reactors in the country's southwest . The reopening of two other nuclear reactors in Fukui was recently blocked by a Japanese court over safety fears . Japan's 48 nuclear reactors have been offline in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disas...
(CNN)He might have just won one of sport's most prestigious events, but it wasn't long before Jordan Spieth's thoughts turned to his autistic sister in the glow of victory. The 21-year-old golfer equaled Tiger Woods' 1997 record winning score of 18 under par to realize his childhood ambitions of donning the green jacke...	Jordan Spieth hails autistic younger sibling as his biggest supporter . Ice-cool display made him second-youngest winner behind Tiger Woods .
(CNN)Wednesday's game between the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox will be closed to the public, the Orioles announced Tuesday. The closed-door contest follows the postponements of Monday's and Tuesday's games against the White Sox until a doubleheader scheduled for May 28 following unrest in Baltimore. A source...	White Sox Hall of Famer tweets the closed-door game also should be postponed . Baltimore unrest leads to postponement of two baseball games . Third game in series will be first ever played without spectators .
(CNN)Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to speak Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress. The address marks the first time in history that the head of the Japanese government will address the entire U.S. Congress, and given the importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship, it is an invitation long overdue. S...	Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address Congress on Wednesday . Paul Sracic: Abe has a lot riding on TPP trade agreement .
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)It is a strangely detached scene for the close of America's longest war: military trainers bouncing between multi-million dollar, high security bases, on Black Hawks, miles from the front line. But it is how Washington wants this to be. And even though the departure of American troops will be fr...	Final troop pullout oddly detached as U.S. military operations die down in Afghanistan . Ambitious projects, like a police logistics center in Jalalabad, may not live up to their potential .
Panama City (CNN)This was the handshake that shook the Western Hemisphere. President Obama briefly met his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, on Friday night at a dinner for the dozens of Latin American leaders convening in Panama City for the Summit of the Americas. This was historic. The two nations have barely been on ...	U.S. President Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro meet in Panama City . The two nations -- only 90 miles apart -- have been at odds for more than 50 years .
(CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren insists she's not running for president. But her description of a 2016 "dream" presidential candidate sounds a lot like, well, her. Warren, during an appearance Friday on CNN's "New Day," said she wanted to see someone willing to fight for the middle class and "make Washington work for famili...	The Massachusetts senator says Washington works well for special interests and the well-connected but leaves out the rest of the nation . She says that in her eyes, two declared GOP candidates have already disqualified themselves .
(CNN)"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star and former child actress Kim Richards is accused of kicking a police officer after being arrested Thursday morning. Richards was taken into custody by police at the Beverly Hills Hotel on accusations of trespassing, resisting arrest and public intoxication after security per...	"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kim Richards was arrested early Thursday morning . Beverly Hills police say Richards wouldn't leave a hotel when asked and later struck an officer .
(CNN)In the hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a community center and apartment complex that local leaders expected to serve as a catalyst for the rebuilding of a long blighted East Baltimore neighborhood went up in flames. The $16 million Mary Harvin Transformation Center was being built in a part of town where ...	Mary Harvin Transformation Center was to house 60 senior-citizen apartments, community center . It burned down during Baltimore riots .
Lausanne, Switzerland (CNN)There are plenty of details left to iron out, but negotiators took a significant step Thursday toward a landmark deal aimed at keeping Iran's nuclear program peaceful. After a marathon stretch of late-night negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, diplomats announced they'd come up with the fra...	Netanyahu says a deal would pave the way for Iran to get a nuclear bomb . Iran's enrichment capacity and stockpile will be limited, diplomats say . Talks were tough, intense and "sometimes emotional and confrontational," Kerry says .
(CNN)The arrest and death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore has stoked protests and accusations of police brutality. But it's unclear how Gray, arrested on a weapons charge April 12, suffered a severe spinal cord injury that led to his death seven days later. Here are the big questions surrounding this explosive case: . Gra...	Gray was arrested on a weapons charge April 12; he was dead seven days later . Gray was placed inside a police van after his arrest; it's unclear if anything happened inside the van . Gray has a criminal history but it's unclear whether that had anything to do with his arrest, or death .
(CNN)Kim Bok-dong is 89 now, and is going blind and deaf. She knows her health is fading, and she can no longer walk unassisted. But her eyes burn bright with a passion borne of redressing her suffering of a lifetime ago. She enters a meeting of Tokyo foreign correspondents in a wheelchair, visibly exhausted after a fl...	Kim Bok-dong is determined to share her story of sexual slavery until she's no longer physically able . Kim was held prisoner by the Japanese military in a "comfort station" for five years, raped ceaselessly . She says she won't rest until she receives a formal apology from the Japanese government .
(CNN)Several of the world's worst terrorist groups, like ISIS and Al-Shabaab, aim to create societies governed by strict, distorted versions of Sharia law. That means anyone who doesn't subscribe to such extremist views are enemies and in danger -- Christians included. Of course, Christians aren't the only ones who hav...	An Italian prosecutor announces suspected al Qaeda affiliates may have targeted the Vatican . ISIS produced propaganda videos showing beheadings of Egyptian, Ethiopian Christians . Al-Shabaab has singled out non-Muslims to kill them, as at a Garissa University College .
(CNN)The powers of Marvel's all-star superheroes go a bit wobbly in "Avengers: Age of Ultron." Faced with the daunting prospect of topping the surprise and excitement of 2012's The Avengers, the third highest-grossing film of all time, writer-director Joss Whedon mixes some brooding down-time in with the abundant spect...	'Avengers: Age of Ultron' hits theaters May 1 . Critic: Movie doesn't quite measure up to the original from 2012 .
(CNN)Actress Linda Thompson, Bruce Jenner's second wife, says she can "breathe a little easier" knowing her ex-husband has found the strength to publicly declare he is transgender. In a two-hour special that aired Friday, the Olympic gold medalist and "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star said he has the "soul of a fe...	Bruce Jenner's second wife Linda Thompson says she learned of his "gender issues" during their marriage . She says she can breathe easier now that he can be "who he authentically is"
(CNN)Universal's "Furious 7" is about to make history."Furious 7" — the final film from the late Paul Walker — is expected to gross $115 million or more when opening at the North American box office this weekend, the top showing ever for an April title, not accounting for inflation.Domestically, it is getting the wides...	The film is expected to gross $115 million or more . Paul Walker died in a car crash during filming . "Furious 7" poised to nab the biggest opening of 2015 so far .
Seoul (CNN)South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo offered to resign on Monday amid a growing political scandal. Lee will stay in his official role until South Korean President Park Geun-hye accepts his resignation. He has transferred his role of chairing Cabinet meetings to the deputy prime minister for the time bein...	Calls for Lee Wan-koo to resign began after South Korean tycoon Sung Woan-jong was found hanging from a tree in Seoul . Sung, who was under investigation for fraud and bribery, left a note listing names and amounts of cash given to top officials .
(CNN)Pardon us, "Lost" fans, but April 8 wasn't only your day. Yes, we know the significance of April 8, 2015, and the alignment of 4:23.42 p.m. on that date to everyone obsessed with the hit ABC show, and we heard about the general geek-outs that were occurring. But don't forget, April 8 was also "Rex Manning Day." Tw...	April 8 was huge for "Lost" and "Empire Records" fans . April 14, April 25, October 21 are other big dates in movies .
(CNN)ISIS fighters seized several districts in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in an hours-long assault Friday that included suicide and car bombs, an Iraqi provincial official said. At least 10 Iraqi security forces were killed in the attacks, according to Faleh al-Essawi, the deputy head of Iraq's Anbar provincial council. ...	Anbar provincial official: Suicide and car bombs were part of the ISIS assault . Iraqi and allied forces have had recent success, but ISIS remains powerful .
Baltimore, Maryland (CNN)Protesters angry over the death of Freddie Gray got into physical altercations with police Saturday night in downtown Baltimore near the city's famed baseball stadium. Some of the hundreds who confronted lines of police officers got into shoving matches with helmeted cops while other demonstra...	Twin sister of Freddie Gray asks for people to stop breaking things, scuffling with cops . Fans are permitted to exit Camden Yards after briefly being told to stay put . 12 people arrested during protests, police commissioner says .
(CNN)Remains of up to nearly 400 unaccounted for service members tied to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor will be exhumed this year, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The hope is that most of the battleship's sailors and Marines can be identified. "The secretary of defense and I will work tirelessly to ensure y...	USS Oklahoma was lost during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 . Hundreds of crew members were buried without identification .
(CNN)Robert Downey Jr. is making headlines for walking out of an interview with a British journalist who dared to veer away from the superhero movie Downey was there to promote. The journalist instead started asking personal questions about the actor's political beliefs and "dark periods" of addiction and jail time. Tw...	Peggy Drexler: In interview to promote movie, Robert Downey Jr. walked out after being asked personal questions . She says his behavior was rude, demeaning to the interviewer, who was just doing his job .
(CNN)This week, social media heralded as #motheroftheyear Toya Graham, the Baltimore single mom who pulled her son, who was holding a brick, away from the scene of a riot. A video of Graham yanking young Michael from a group of protesters -- and subsequently pummeling him with her fists and a few slaps upside the head ...	Peggy Drexler: Video of Toya Graham hitting son as she drags him from protests has raised questions. Was she a hero? Abusive? Neither, she says; she was a mom trying to steer her adolescent in a heated city conflict, and more moms need this kind of commitment .
(CNN)The United States is urging China to release five young feminists who face years in prison over their campaign for gender equality. Authorities detained the women in three cities -- Beijing, Guangzhou and Hangzhou -- a few days ahead of events planned for International Women's Day on March 8. "Each and every one o...	The international community is calling for the release of the five women . Chinese authorities detained them last month over their campaign for gender equality .
(CNN)The NFL draft begins on April 30, and while the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on the clock with the No. 1 overall pick, the clock is still ticking for another team -- the New England Patriots -- as they await the results of the "Deflategate" investigation, which has already lasted more than three months. In January, th...	NFL investigating why game balls provided by New England Patriots for championship game were underinflated . It's not clear when investigation by attorney Ted Wells will be complete . Patriots say they follow the rules and expect to be vindicated and get an apology .
(CNN)On the eve of the one-year mark since nearly 300 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Malala Yousafzai released an "open letter" to the girls Monday. "Like you, I was a target of militants who did not want girls to go to school," she writes in the letter. The 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner su...	Malala Yousafzai tells the girls she associates with them . She writes a message of "solidarity, love and hope" She calls on Nigeria and the international community to do more to rescue the girls .
(CNN)French customs officers say they have seized more than 2 tons of cocaine aboard a sailboat that was falsely flying an American flag in the Caribbean. The drugs, whose value is estimated at more than $105 million, are the biggest cocaine seizure ever carried out by French authorities, said Michael Lachaux, director...	The value of the drugs is estimated at more than $105 million . Officers arrested one Venezuelan and two Spanish citizens on board the vessel .
(CNN)Sawyer Sweeten grew up before the eyes of millions as a child star on the endearing family sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond." Early Thursday he committed suicide, his sister Madylin Sweeten said in a statement. He was 19. "This morning a terrible family tragedy has occurred," Madylin Sweeten said in a statement pas...	Sawyer Sweeten played across from his twin brother and their sister as the children of Ray and Patricia Barone . Report: Sweeten was visiting family in Texas and is believed to have shot himself .
(CNN)Think it's hard to redeem your miles for an airline award ticket? It depends on which airline rewards program you've chosen, which route you're flying and when you book your ticket, according to a new Consumer Reports study of 70 million passenger trips over the past two years. The magazine collected statistics co...	Southwest Airlines tops Consumer Reports' survey, with the most seats available . JetBlue is at the bottom of the list but ranks high in customer satisfaction .
(CNN)Tornadoes, fierce winds and severe thunderstorms with large hail are predicted for the Midwest and for the Plains, from the Ozarks eastward to the lower Ohio Valley, on Thursday and Friday, the National Weather Service said. Severe weather is perilous anytime, of course, but CNN meteorologist Chad Myers says that ...	Thunderstorms with large hail are predicted for the Midwest and the Plains . Tornadoes could strike Thursday night and Friday .
(CNN)Indonesia has a tough stance on drug smugglers, and since assuming office in October, President Joko Widodo has made it clear he intends to show no mercy toward those found guilty of such crimes. That tough stance casts a further pall on two Australian drug smugglers, part of the so-called "Bali Nine." They are wa...	Two Australian drug smugglers, part of the Bali Nine, await word whether they'll face a firing squad . Less is known about the seven other members of the group .
Peshawar, Pakistan (CNN)Ten people have been sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 2012 attack on Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, a judge announced Thursday. The assailant's conviction and sentences follow a trial that included testimony from both sides, according to Pakistani antiterr...	The sentences came after a trial in Pakistan, a judge says . Malala Yousafzai is an outspoken advocate for the education of girls . She was attacked in Pakistan in 2012 .
(CNN)NBA player Thabo Sefolosha says police caused his season-ending leg injury when he was arrested last week after leaving a nightclub in New York. In a statement Tuesday, the guard/forward for the Atlanta Hawks described his injury as "significant," and said it "was caused by the police." Sefolosha suffered a fractu...	Thabo Sefolosha says he "experienced a significant injury and ... the injury was caused by the police" He and teammate Pero Antic were arrested near the scene of a stabbing early April 8 . They were not involved in the stabbing police said, but they were arrested for obstruction, other charges .
(CNN)Amy Schumer seems to be trying single-handedly this week to make everyone in America laugh. And she's off to a good start. The comedian took a fake tumble on the red carpet Tuesday night at the 2015 TIME 100 gala in New York -- right in front of fellow honorees Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, who stepped around her...	Amy Schumer took a fake tumble Tuesday in front Kanye West and Kim Kardashian . The comedian pulled the prank at the TIME 100 gala in New York . Schumer, whose "Inside Amy Schumer" also premiered Tuesday, is having a moment .
(CNN)A measles outbreak that affected more than 130 Californians since December is over, the California Department of Public Health declared Friday. It has been 42 days since the last known case of B3 strain of measles, the equivalent of two successive incubation periods, said Dr. Karen Smith, director of the health de...	Officials say 131 Californians were affected by one strain, five by other strains . About 70% of the people who could show health records were unvaccinated . Outbreak began in December among visitors to two Disney theme parks .
(CNN)This is a difficult but necessary thing to say: Incidents of police-involved killings and assaults on unarmed African-Americans are unlikely to end soon. That's partly because police brutality is neither new nor reflective of a "moment." And it's also because we have not yet shown the resolve needed to end it. Thi...	Sherrilyn Ifill: Police violence against unarmed African-Americans is a national crisis . U.S. policing needs dramatic overhaul, she says .
(CNN)A U.S. citizen with alleged ties to al Qaeda did not enter a plea during his initial court appearance Thursday on charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, 29, was deported from Pakistan to the United States. He's accused of plotting to fight against American force...	Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh was deported from Pakistan to the United States . The U.S. citizen is accused of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists .
(CNN)We belong to different generations and political parties. We live in different states and under different circumstances. One of us is a college student, born into a political family, while the other is a former congressman from South Carolina and father of five children. One of us served on the selection committee...	Profile in Courage award is going to a Republican congressman who risked his career while recognizing the danger of climate change . Authors: Addressing climate challenge is today's moon shot, an enormous effort that will pay big benefits .
(CNN)Dan Swangard knows what death looks like. As a physician, he has seen patients die in hospitals, hooked to morphine drips and overcome with anxiety. He has watched dying drag on for weeks or months as terrified relatives stand by helplessly. Recently, however, his thoughts about how seriously ill people die have b...	Dan Swangard, a physician, wants to be able to control when and how his life ends . A recent survey reveals 54 percent of American doctors support assisted suicide .
(CNN)It's the beer so good the Danes hate to see it leave, or so Carlsberg advertisements used to say. Now, Copenhagen residents can live in a new neighborhood set to emerge on the historic grounds of the famous beer-maker in the heart of Danish capital. The area in question -- aptly named Carlsberg City -- has been ho...	New neighborhood named Carlsberg City set to emerge in Copenhagen, Denmark . District has been built on site of beer company's former brewery .
(CNN)How will the new "Fantastic Four" differ from the original movie of a decade ago? For starters, as a new trailer shows, Sue and Johnny Storm's father initiates the project that ends up giving the foursome their powers. They also end up in another dimension, and we see the early flirtation between Sue Storm and Ree...	Dr. Doom is seen for the first time in the trailer for the "Fantastic Four" reboot . Chris Pratt takes the lead in the new trailer for "Jurassic World"
(The Hollywood Reporter)"Grace of Monaco," starring Nicole Kidman as star-turned-princess Grace Kelly, is heading straight to Lifetime. The critically-panned film, which opened last year's Cannes Film Festival, will premiere on Lifetime on Memorial Day, May 25. After the movie performed poorly in its international enga...	The film will premiere on Memorial Day . It opened last year's Cannes Film Festival . A planned March theater release was scrubbed .
(CNN)Just eight months ago, a young woman named Fatu Kekula was single-handedly trying to save her Ebola-stricken family, donning trash bags to protect herself against the deadly virus. Today, because of a CNN story and the generosity of donors from around the world, Kekula wears scrubs bearing the emblem of the Emory ...	Fatu Kekula, 23, saved most of her family from Ebola . Thanks to donors, she is being trained at Emory University . Kekula was one year away from finishing a nursing degree when Ebola struck .
Washington (CNN)The flight voice recorder aboard Germanwings Flight 9525 reportedly captured blaring cockpit alarms, warning co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to "pull up" and that "terrain" was ahead. But that was not enough to stop the aircraft from slamming into the French Alps. With reports that Lubitz apparently ignored th...	Autopilot could have taken control of Germanwings flight and flown plane to safe altitude . But some experts say taking control away from humans could lead to other dangers . Another concern: Autopilot might be vulnerable to hackers .
(CNN)ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack Friday near the U.S. Consulate in the Kurdish Iraqi city of Irbil, according to several Twitter accounts linked to the terror group. The U.S. Consulate was the target of the attack, ISIS said. At least four people were killed and 18 injured, police said. Al...	All U.S. Consulate personnel safe after blast, State Department spokeswoman says . Suicide bombers blow up car near the U.S. Consulate in Irbil, Iraq .
(CNN)One of Tokyo's most prominent districts has taken a small, but potentially significant step to recognizing same-sex unions in Japan. The government of Shibuya ward, one of the capital's most famous shopping and trendy entertainment districts, passed ordinance on Wednesday paving the way for "partnership certificat...	Shibuya ward in Tokyo passes an ordinance that gives same-sex couples some of the rights of married heterosexual couples . Activists welcome the decision; hope that it will lead to greater equality for LGBT people in Japan . Recent poll finds most young Japanese open to the idea of gay marriage .
(CNN)Fifteen buffalo were shot and killed on Friday after a day on the loose in upstate New York. The chase, which took farmers and police officers from five jurisdictions through forests and over the Hudson River, ended with "snipers" from the animals' farm gunning down the buffalo from the side of the road, according...	15 buffalo are shot on Friday after escaping the day before from a farm in Schodack, New York . Police helicopters fly overhead and nearby schools put on alert in the final moments of the chase . The herd breaks through three layers of barbed wire fencing and crosses the Hudson River during the escape .
Rome (CNN)Italy is coping with a rising wave of desperate migrants from Africa and Middle East hoping to make it to Europe. From Friday to Monday, a total of 8,480 migrants were rescued, according to the Italian coast guard, which said it received on Monday -- alone -- SOS calls from 20 boats in distress. On Tuesday, a...	The Italian coast guard says 8,480 migrants were rescued from Friday to Monday . Save the Children said Tuesday 400 migrants could be missing from a boat . The Italian coast guard cannot confirm that report .
Los Angeles (CNN)It's more than just one state's internal problem. The historic California drought hurts the rest of the union, too. That's because California is a breadbasket to the nation, growing more than a third of its vegetables and nearly two-thirds of its fruits and nuts. Here's why we should heed the ongoing d...	Americans paid more for some fruits and vegetables last year because of the drought . Tourists will now have to ask for a glass of water at a California restaurant . Perhaps the only good thing is another "great" wine grape harvest last year .
(CNN)Monday night, as unrest raged across Baltimore's streets, Amanda Rothschild lay awake in her Remington home, a neighborhood in the northern part of the city, thinking about what the next day would be like. As a co-owner of Charmington's, a cafe in the intersection of three major Baltimore neighborhoods, Rothschild...	Some local businesses in Baltimore are banding together to show support for change . Business owners have given workers opportunities to peacefully demonstrate . Several businesses dealing with destruction, looting from Monday riot .
(CNN)Given that most people couldn't tell the difference between a copyright and a trademark, it usually takes something controversial, such as the Washington Redskins' refusal to change their name, to get people interested in trademark law. This week, a higher court scrutinized a lesser-known trademark -- when the ban...	Marc Randazza: Court upholds a trademark denial for Asian-American band The Slants on the grounds that name was disparaging . He says court is wrong: Trademarks are commercial speech, protected by First Amendment. Ruling a sign or our easily offended times .
(CNN)The number of new HIV infections in a rural Indiana county has grown, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The institute is working with state health leaders to control the "severe outbreak," which has spread among users of a prescription opioid called Opana. The outbreak has been ongoing s...	The number of new HIV infections in Indiana has grown to 142 cases . Some families in isolated communities use illegal drugs and share needles as a "community activity," a health official says . Public health officials urge vigilance to stop the outbreak from gaining ground .
(CNN)Feeling so happy you just can't stand it? You might want to pop some acetaminophen. A new study has found that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, most forms of Midol and more than 600 other medicines, reduces not only pain but pleasure, as well. The authors of the study, which was published this week i...	Subjects taking acetaminophen reacted less strongly to both pleasant and unpleasant photos . Each week, 52 million Americans use the pain reliever . Unknown whether other pain products produce the same effect .
(CNN)The University of Michigan has decided to proceed with a screening of the film "American Sniper" despite objections from some students. More than 200 students signed a petition asking the school not to show the movie as part of UMix, a series of social events the university stages for students. Bradley Cooper was ...	Some complained about the film's depiction of the Iraq War . A petition asked the university not to show the Bradley Cooper film .
(CNN)The jailing of four Blackwater security guards, eight years after they killed 17 Iraqi civilians in a shooting in Baghdad, is a positive step for justice -- but is also not enough. The kind of horror represented by the Blackwater case and others like it -- from Abu Ghraib to the massacre at Haditha to CIA waterboa...	ISIS is using past Western transgressions in Iraq to justify its brutality . Lack of accountability following 2003 invasion paved way for abuse -- and for sectarian tensions .
(CNN)Justice may be blind, but it's easy to see that Marvel's "Daredevil" is already a hit with fans. The pitch-black-dark new series streamed its entire first season on Netflix on Friday morning, and the early word is quite good. Charlie Cox is perfectly cast as blind attorney Matt Murdock, whose nights are consumed w...	Marvel's long-awaited show "Daredevil" began streaming early Friday . Binge-watchers are already giving the series high marks .
(CNN)The American Pharmacists Association is discouraging its members from participating in executions. On Monday, the group voted at its annual meeting to adopt a ban as an official policy, stating that "such activities are fundamentally contrary to the role of pharmacists as healthcare providers." This bolsters the a...	The American Pharmacists Association passed a new policy banning members from participating in lethal injections . Pharmacists say role as health care providers conflicts with participation in lethal injection . The pharmacy association first adopted a policy against lethal injection in 1985 .
(CNN)Fast-food outlet Burger King will sponsor the wedding of an Illinois couple. Not just any couple -- these are the nuptials of Joel Burger and Ashley King. They accepted the restaurant chain's offer to pay for their July affair on Monday. "We are very appreciative of Burger King and can't thank them enough for thei...	Joel Burger and Ashley King have been engaged since October . Their engagement photo with a Burger King sign attracted, and the company offered to pay for their wedding .
(CNN)German police overnight thwarted a terrorist plot by a radicalized couple, a plan they suspect involved bombing a bicycle race near Frankfurt, a German terrorism researcher briefed by investigators told CNN on Thursday. German prosecutors and police said that a man and a woman had been arrested in the Frankfurt-ar...	German police say they think they "have thwarted an Islamist attack," interior minister for Hesse state says . German terrorism researcher: Couple accused of planning bomb attack on bicycle race near Frankfurt .
(Billboard)From Channing Tatum twerking for Jennifer Lopez to host Amy Schumer's archery fail, there were plenty of highlights and misfires from the 2015 MTV Movie Awards. 2015 MTV Movie Awards: See the full winners list . Here are the jokes, performances and moments that hit the target and the ones and missed it. Best...	MTV Movie Awards host Amy Schumer had some hits and misses during the show . Rebel Wilson tossed in a censor-worthy joke .
(CNN)Thousands of Palestinians are trapped in the devastated Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, which has mostly been seized by groups including ISIS, activists report. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front took control of 90% of the camp in southern Damas...	ISIS and other rebel groups control most of the refugee camp, activists say . "Never has the hour been more desperate" in the camp, U.N. says . ""Reports of kidnappings, beheadings and mass killings," PLO official says .
(CNN)If one is to believe lawyers for Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star had no conceivable reason to kill a man who was his friend, his future brother-in-law and a reliable purveyor of the marijuana he chain-smoked. The jury in the high-profile trial resumed deliberations Wednesday after deliberatin...	A Massachusetts jury is deliberating Hernandez's case . Hernandez is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Odin Lloyd .
(CNN)A mom furious at her son for apparently taking part in the Baltimore riots has become a sensation online. In video captured by CNN affiliate WMAR, the woman is seen pulling her masked son away from a crowd, smacking him in the head repeatedly, and screaming at him. As he tries to walk away, she follows him, scream...	The mom saw her son on TV throwing rocks at police, CNN affiliate reports . Police praise her actions .
Lausanne, Switzerland (CNN)The bad news? The deadline to agree on what will be the parameters for an endgame pact on Iran's nuclear program has come and gone with no deal. The good news? The sides are still talking. Whether your glass is half-full or half-empty, it doesn't change the fact that it's not easy to reach re...	Talks run until early Thursday morning; expected to resume hours later . Iranian minister: Other side must "seize the moment," not try to pressure Iran . U.S. official: "It is still totally unclear when this might happen, if it happens at all"
(CNN)A white casket sat at the front of New Shiloh Baptist Church in West Baltimore as a gospel choir sang for a large crowd gathered to honor Freddie Gray. The 25-year-old died in police custody 15 days ago after he was arrested on a weapons charge. His death from a severe spinal chord injury sparked widespread outrag...	Eric Garner's family and other members of Families United for Justice will attend Gray's funeral . Gray was arrested April 12 and died a week later from a severe spinal cord injury . Three White House officials will also attend Gray's funeral .
(CNN)Those poor fish must have been wondering what the heck was happening to them. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department has reported that a section of a fiberglass boat 20 or 30 feet long was spotted off the state's coast this week and has been towed into harbor. The debris is suspected to be from the earthquake ...	Debris from boat to be dried, inspected and taken to landfill . The debris contained fish normally found in Japanese waters . The earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March 2011 .
Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) [Breaking news update at 11:45 p.m. ET] . Two African-Americans -- Ella Jones and Wesley Bell -- were elected to the Ferguson City Council on Tuesday, meaning three of the six council members are black. [Previous story, published at 6:52 p.m. ET] . The skies grew ominous and the radio crackled ...	Two more African-Americans have been elected to the Ferguson City Council . Tuesday's vote is the first in Ferguson since the shooting death of Michael Brown .
(CNN)In case you needed a reminder that President Barack Obama isn't running for office again, he just alienated not only Republicans, who have largely resented him from day one, but the progressive base of Democratic voters. Obama has argued with the progressive potentate Elizabeth Warren, calling her "wrong" on trade...	Sen. Elizabeth Warren has publicly criticized so-called "fast track" trade authority . Sally Kohn: Why does President Obama call her wrong, and why is Hillary Clinton equivocating?
Cairo (CNN)At least 12 people were killed Sunday, and more injured, in separate attacks on a police station, a checkpoint and along a highway in Egypt's northern Sinai, authorities said. Six people, including one civilian, were killed when a car bomb exploded near the police station in Al-Arish, capital of North Sinai,...	Six people, including one civilian, are killed when a car bomb explodes near a police station . Six others are killed when their armored vehicle is attacked on a highway in northern Sinai . Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, an ISIS affiliate, claims responsibility .
(CNN)Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, the fictitious holiday marked by progressive women's groups as the point in the year women would have to work to make up for "lost" wages as a result of the so-called wage gap. In the wake of Hillary Clinton's presidential announcement, the "holiday" has special meaning. Clinton's electio...	Sabrina Schaeffer: Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, a fictitious holiday marked by progressive women . She says the wage gap between men and women is grossly overstated .
(CNN)One year after it was perpetrated, the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls by a jihadist group in Nigeria remains a crime almost too horrifying to comprehend: Hundreds of teenaged girls, just finishing school, destined perhaps for significant achievement -- kidnapped, never to be seen again. "This crime has right...	Nigeria's President-elect sends nation's prayers to families of girls . World still expresses hope that the girls will return . Boko Haram controls a portion of northeastern Nigeria .
Ravi Opi, Kavre District, Nepal (CNN)By the time you reach the outskirts of Nepal's capital, even the roads are showing signs of the sheer magnitude of this earthquake -- and the enormity of the task awaiting a country struggling to come to terms with devastation and tragedy. The main highway that heads east out of Kat...	Roads out of Kathmandu are damaged but passable . Even close to the capital, aid is taking forever to trickle through . East of the city, the village of Ravi Opi counts the cost of devastation .
(CNN)For many Girl Scout troops it is officially cookie season. I feel guilty saying no to the sweet, enthusiastic girls standing outside my grocery store who use their smiles and newly practiced sales pitches to ask how many boxes I'd like to order. After all, the organization is dedicated to enhancing girls' characte...	Victoria Maizes, a doctor, says she avoids Girl Scout cookies because they contain sugar, fats. Can't Scouts promote healthy snacks? She says pediatricians offer little guidance on nutrition, yet a diet low in sugars, GMO's, transfats, lowers overall mortality .
(CNN)A Tulsa County reserve deputy is on administrative leave after "inadvertently" shooting a suspect with his gun. Police say Robert (Bob) Bates, 73, thought he pulled out his Taser during an arrest, but instead shot the suspect, who later died at a local hospital. The shooting happened after an apparent drug and gu...	Police say Robert Bates, 73, thought he pulled out his Taser during an arrest . Instead, he shot the suspect, who later died at a local hospital .
(CNN)SpaceX on Tuesday launched a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying an uncrewed cargo spacecraft called Dragon on a flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the International Space Station. That was the easy part. In a difficult bid to land a rocket stage on a floating barge for the first time, the private space explor...	SpaceX founder Elon Musk: "Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival" This was the second attempt at historic rocket booster barge landing . Dragon spacecraft will head toward International Space Station on resupply mission .
(CNN)Easter is unique on the Christian calendar, a major point in the cycle of the religious year, and one that has always been able to resist the commercialization and culture warring that surrounds Christmas. That's in part because Easter is genuinely about how religious impulses, and patterns, can operate in ways th...	Jay Parini: When religious identity, ethics, tolerance are roiling the culture, it's worth looking at message of Holy Week and Easter . He says ritual enactment of these three days is reminder that again and again the human condition moves through darkness into light .
(CNN)It won't come as news to anyone in America today that the authority to make an arrest carries with it the potential to escalate to lethal force. But the seemingly innocuous genesis of police authority (initial stop and question, pulling someone over for a traffic violation) becomes significant because of the pote...	Walter Scott was killed by a South Carolina police officer in April . Danny Cevallos: Failure to pay child support should be a civil matter, not a crime .
(CNN)To allay possible concerns, Boston prosecutors released video Friday of the shooting of a police officer last month that resulted in the killing of the gunman. The officer wounded, John Moynihan, is white. Angelo West, the gunman shot to death by officers, was black. After the shooting, community leaders in the pr...	Boston Police Officer John Moynihan is released from the hospital . Video shows that the man later shot dead by police in Boston opened fire first . Moynihan was shot in the face during a traffic stop .
(CNN)The underwater search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 looks set to double in size. Teams are scouring the depths of a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean for the remains of the passenger jet that disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people on board. So far, they've covered about 60% of the ...	Malaysia, Australia and China announce possible new phase of hunt for missing plane . The search of the current priority zone is expected to be completed in May .
(CNN)Jacob Lawrence's groundbreaking work, "The Migration of the Negro," is a series of 60 small paintings with text depicting the lives of millions of pre-World War II blacks as they moved from the oppressive South to the promise of a better life in the North. One frame in particular, No. 22, shows three black men dre...	LZ Granderson: People keep looking for new reasons to validate apathy and explain away racism . But what happened in Baltimore didn't come up overnight; artist Jacob Lawrence depicted the same story in 1940s .
(CNN)This week's attack on Garissa University College is Al-Shabaab's fifth major assault in Kenya in the past year and a half. The Thursday massacre was the most deadly assault so far, with 147 dead, easily eclipsing the terrorist group's most notorious attack, a four-day siege in late September 2013 at the Westgate M...	Al-Shabaab's attack on Garissa University College is the group's deadliest so far in Kenya . Authors: The group is under pressure from African Union forces and a covert U.S. war .
(CNN)It would have made Thomas Jefferson proud. Established on the birthday of the American founding father, Liberland -- the world's newest micronation -- is founded on a firm belief in liberty and noninterference from the powers-that-be. A tiny, 7 square-kilometer parcel of land, marked on maps as Gornja Siga, its te...	Vit Jedlicka, the first president of Liberland, tells CNN that the country will be formally founded on May 1 . On April 13, Jedlicka declared an area between Croatia and Serbia "the Free Republic of Liberland" Jedlicka says that almost 300,000 applications for citizenship have so far been received .
(CNN)Wealthy Nigerians used to travel abroad to get their fix of luxury goods. However these days, they can take a stroll around Victoria Island, an exclusive neighborhood in Lagos where brands like Porsche, Hugo Boss and Ermenegildo Zegna line the streets. The Nigerian city is among African metropolises which have see...	The city with most multimillionaires in Africa is Johannesburg . However a crop of new pretenders have been expanding their millionaire count .
(CNN)Canadian fighter jets have carried out their first airstrike against ISIS in Syria, hitting one of the Sunni militant group's garrisons. The CF-18 Hornets bombed near ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa, Canada's Department of National Defence said Wednesday. It described the strike as successful. Canadian forces are ...	CF-18 Hornets bomb a garrison near ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa, Canada says . The Canadian military has conducted dozens of strikes against ISIS in Iraq .
(CNN)A photo of a baby boy being pulled from the rubble of the Nepal earthquake has become the defining image of a disaster that has devastated the country. His tiny face is coated in dust from the debris that crashed around him as the earth shook on Saturday, April 25, killing more than 5,000 people and injuring at le...	Baby Sonit Awal found in rubble of Nepal earthquake, Sunday morning . Spent 22 hours buried under his home after 7.8-magnitude quake .
(CNN)The third blood moon in a four-part series was the shortest eclipse of the bunch, but still a sweet treat for early risers in North America. The moon slipped fully into Earth's shadow at 4:58 a.m. Pacific Time (7:58 a.m. ET) Saturday, starting a total lunar eclipse for nearly five minutes -- what NASA says will be...	The total eclipse lasted 4 minutes and 43 seconds . People west of the Mississippi River had the best view in the U.S. Parts of South America, India, China and Russia were able to see the eclipse .
(CNN)Bahamian R&B singer Johnny Kemp, best known for the 1988 party anthem "Just Got Paid," died this week in Jamaica. The singer is believed to have drowned at a beach in Montego Bay on Thursday, the Jamaica Constabulatory Force said in a press release. The statement listed his age as 54, but other reports say he was ...	Johnny Kemp is "believed to have drowned at a beach in Montego Bay," police say . He is best known for the 1988 hit "Just Got Paid"
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Kenya froze dozens of accounts linked to suspected terror supporters after militants massacred 147 people last week at a university in Garissa. The government is tracking the finances of people suspected of ties to Al-Shabaab, the militant group that claimed responsibility for the Thursday attack. ...	The attack at a Garissa university last week killed 147 people, mostly students . The government is tracking the finances of people suspected of ties to Al-Shabaab .
(CNN)What would you do if a complete stranger asked you for $100, or offered you an apple in a parking lot without explanation? These are only two of the 100 challenges Chinese-born, American-based Jia Jiang put himself up to when he decided to blog about "100 Days of Rejection", a project he launched after he quit his...	One man's entrepreneurial quest turned into unexpected success . "100 Days of Rejection" took Jiang out of his comfort zone . It's the fear of rejection, more than rejection itself, which holds us back .
(CNN)Two passengers found dead on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico appear to have died in a murder-suicide, the cruise line said. Holland America Line said two guests were found dead inside their stateroom on the ms Ryndam at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. "The cabin was immediately secured, and the authorities were notified, includ...	Holland America says two passengers died in an apparent murder-suicide . "The cabin was immediately secured and the authorities were notified," cruise line says . The FBI is investigating the deaths; the ship is in San Juan, Puerto Rico .
(CNN)Buckle up for another Mercedes battle in the Formula One world championship. Lewis Hamilton took victory for the Silver Arrows at the Chinese Grand Prix -- only for his teammate Nico Rosberg to later claim he had ruined his race by driving slowly. The reigning world champion captured his 35th grand prix win with a...	Lewis Hamilton took victory for the Silver Arrows at the Chinese Grand Prix . Nico Rosberg claims Hamilton ruined his race by driving slowly .
Canberra, Australia (CNN)Before "Bali Nine" duo, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the last Australian executed for drug offenses abroad was Van Tuong Nguyen by Singapore in 2005. Although Canberra then, as it is now, was strongly opposed to the death penalty, Van's death did not harm Australia's relationship with Sin...	Despite pleas for mercy, Indonesia executed eight prisoners on Wednesday . Included two of the "Bali Nine," convicted drug traffickers from Australia . Executions will damage relations between countries, but public image will take longer to heal .
(CNN)No prostitutes. No ifs, ands or buts -- and yes, that includes when and where prostitution is perfectly legal. That was the message Friday from Attorney General Eric Holder to members of the U.S. Justice Department, which includes the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...	Attorney General Holder reiterates Justice Department policy on prostitutes . Soliciting prostitutes is banned, even in places where it's legal, Holder says . His memo comes weeks after a report involving DEA agents and prostitutes .
(CNN)The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls a year ago this week captured global attention and inspired the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, but the horrors for Nigeria's children are widespread. "Around 800,000 children have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict in northeast Nigeria between Boko H...	More than 1.5 million people are displaced, including 800,000 children, UNICEF says . The kidnappings that inspired #BringBackOurGirls were a year ago this week . UNICEF is launching a #bringbackourchildhood campaign .
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya (CNN)At first glance, Sudan looks like any other northern white rhino: stout and agile, with square lips. He grazes under the hot sun, his massive head lowered to the ground, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya. When he's not wallowing in his enclosure, he waddles around the spr...	Sudan is one of a handful of northern white rhinos left worldwide . As the only male, the fate of the subspecies rests on his ability to conceive with two females at a conservancy . Experts are trying various ways, including in vitro fertilization .
(CNN)Tobacco companies including Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds filed suit this week against the Food and Drug Administration alleging that the FDA is violating the companies' free speech rights. In March, the FDA issued guidance that if significant changes are made to a product's label, like color or a logo, the prod...	Companies including Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds in suit alleging violation of free speech . In March, the FDA issued guidance about changes to tobacco product labels . If significant changes are made to a product's label, like color or a logo, the product requires new approval .
(CNN)With the announcement that E! will air a new documentary series this summer about Bruce Jenner's transition from male to female, fans are eagerly awaiting bearing witness to the former Olympian's journey. The as yet not titled eight-part, one-hour series is set to premiere July 26. Jenner, who along with his famil...	E! plans to air a new Jenner reality show this summer . It will follow his transition from male to female .
(CNN)After a weekend shipwreck off the coast of Italy that may have killed hundreds of migrants, the International Organization for Migrants said Monday that there may be three more migrant boats in distress in international waters. Authorities still don't know the fate of many of the passengers, including children, wh...	Two survivors were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, police say . European officials propose a 10-point plan meant to address the crisis . A survivor tells authorities that migrants were trapped behind locked doors .
(CNN)Countries around the world have launched massive aid operations to help victims of the Nepal earthquake, but distribution of aid faces challenges as Nepal is still trying to come to terms with the scale of the disaster. With over 4,400 dead, 8,000 injured and 8 million people across Nepal affected, numerous aid gr...	Nepalese authorities struggle with trying to coordinate a massive influx of international aid . Relief organizations say lots of aid supplies remain stuck in cargo aircraft on the tarmac . Damaged roads and infrastructure have hampered distribution efforts and rescue teams trying to access remote areas .

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