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THE IJNIX ODEMOOhT
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vessel,bearing 3 tons of goods, began tumbling when it reached orbit Tuesday, following launch &om Kazakhstan. The head of Roscosmos, SAN FRANCISCO — State Russia's space agency, Igor and federaloffi cials say a Komarov, cited a lack of presNorthern California cement sure in the main block of the quarry will pay more than propulsion system in the deci$7.5 million to settle charges sion to abort the mission. it dumped millions of gallons of toxic wastewater into a local creek that pours into the San Francisco Bay.
Quarry to pay $7M to settle violations
T he settlement wit h t h e
Spanish brought to 2016 campaign
Brown set a
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of reducing emissions to 40 percentbelow 1990 levels by 2030, calling it the most aggressive benchmark enacted by a government in North America. The goal is a mile marker on the way to cutting emissionsby 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 that was set by Brown's predecessor, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. California, which already has an aggressive plan to combat global warming, currently is on track to meet a goal of cutting carbon emissionsto 1990 levels by 2020, partly by forcing companies to pay for their pollution.
NATION
Russia's cargo capsule a total loss
court's last argument day un-
discret ion ofthe federaltrial things, might show that the judge who initially heard the death penalty is not consislawsuit. He ruled against the tent with the Eighth Amendinmates, and a unanimous ment," which forbids cruel three-judge panel of the fed- and unusual punishment. eralappeals court in Denver But the conservative jusaffirmed that ruling. tices said the court already But justices on both sides has upheld the use of capital gave voice to larger concerns. punishment and there must 'There are other ways to be ways of carrying out exkill people, regrettably, that ecutions. are painless," Justice Sonia "And yet you put us in a Sotomayor said. position with your argument Justice Stephen Br eyer that he can't be executed," said it's not the inmates' fault Chief Justice John Roberts if the state can't find drugs told Robin Konrad, who repthat work painlessly. resents the inmates. He said, "Perhaps there is Justice Antonin Scalia said that larger question, that ... drugs that have not been if there is no method of ex- challenged as inefFective or ecuting a person that does likely to cause pain have been not cause unacceptable pain, "renderedunavailable by the that, in addition to other abolitionist movement."
Nepal quake: Food aid begins arriving KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The first supplies of food aid began reaching remote, earthquake-shattered mountain villages in Nepal, while thousands clamored to board buses out of Kathmandu, either to check on rural relatives or for fear of spending yet another night in the damaged capital.
nouncement, quoting his Cu-
Frustration over the slow delivery of
ban grandfather, a small but notable addition in a speech meant for everyone to hear, not just a Hispanic crowd. Bush peppered his remarks with Spanish in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, making an obvious cultural connection with many in his audience. Even a modestamount of Spanish will be more than presidential campaigns have known. Bilingualism is a tricky issue in politics and you can be surethat carefulcalculations are being made on how and when to display it in the Bush and Rubio campaigns.
humanitarian aid boiled over in a protest in the city, with about 200 people facing off with police and blocking traffic. The protest was comparatively small and no demonstrators were detained. But it reflected growing anger over bottlenecks that delayed much-needed relief days aRer the powerful earthquake that killed more than 5,500 people, injured twice that many and left tens of thousands homeless. Police, meanwhile, arresteddozens ofpeople on suspicion
WORLD
Venezuela chocolate exports frozen EL CLAVO, Venezuela — Two weeks aRer Venezuela's agriculture minister announced that he would make the resumption of cacao exports a priority, piles of beans are still sitting in warehouses. The government's surprise revocationof export licenses this winter for some of Ven-
helicopter aid flights. The U.N. World Food Program warned that it will take time for food and other supplies to reach more remote communities that have been cut ofFby landslides. With more than 8 million Nepalese affected by the earthquake, including 1.4 million who need immediate food assistance, Pinnock said the efFort would continue for months. President Barack Obama called Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and discussed U.S. military and civilian efforts already underway to help Nepal, the White House said. Police said the official death toll in Nepal had reached 5,489 as of late Wednesday. That figure did not include the 19 people killed at Mount Everest when the quake unleashed an avalanche at base camp.
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BALTIMORE (AP) Thousands of people hit the
ation escalated &om there, intoefFectat10 p.m . overwhelming police as proThe curfew got off to a
streets in Baltimore and sev-
testers set fire to cars and
not-so-promising start Tues-
eralother citiesfrom Boston and New York to Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to protest the death of a black man who died of spinal injuries after his arrest by Baltimore police and to demand reforms to police procedures. While protests of the death of Freddie Gray were mostly peaceful, there were some arrests, including 16 in Baltimore and more than a dozen at a rally in Manhattan's Union Square. Gray, of Baltimore, was critically injured in police custody. ARer meeting with faith leaders and a lawyer for the Gray family, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said officials were working
buildings and raided stores. Schools closed Tuesday because of the mayhem, but reopened Wednesday, after the city's first night of a curfew went ofF without the widespread violence many had feared. About 3,000 police and National Guardsmen descended on the city to help keep order, and life wasn' t likely to get completely back to normal anytime soon: The curfew was set to go back
day night when about 200 protesters ignored warnings from police and pleas &om pastors and other community activists to disperse. Some threw water bottles or lay down on the ground. A line of officers behind riot shieldshurled teargascanistersand fi red pepper balls at the crowd, which dispersed in
hard to make the investi-
gation into Gray's death transparent and keep the community informed. Police have said that they will turn over findings &om their investiga-
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younger generation of princes into the line of succession and map out the future of the throne for potentially decades to come. The 79-year-old king appointed his nephew, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, as crown prince. The 55-yearold prince, who also serves as interior minister and was previously deputy crown prince, has led the kingdom's crackdown on Islamic militants and has worked closely with Western security and intelligence agencies.
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of looting or causing panic by spreading rumors of another big quake. Helicopters finally brought food, temporaryshelter and other aid to hamlets north of Kathmandu in the mountainous Gorkha District near the epicenter of Saturday's7.8-magnitude quake. Entire clusters of homes there were reduced to piles of stone and splintered wood. Women greeted the delivery with repeated cries of "We are hungryi" While the death toll in the village of Gumda waslow — only fi ve people were killed and 20 were injured among 1,300 residents — most had lost their homes and desperately needed temporary shelter, along with the 40-kilogram (90-pound)sacks of rice that were delivered Wednesday. Adding to residents' misery was the rain that has fallen periodically since the quake and hampered
Saudi King Thousands in other US cities Salman protest death of Baltimore man recasts succession RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's King Salman redrew the line of succession on Wednesday, appointing a counterterror ism czar as crown prince and placing his own defense minister son in line for the crown — a dramatic reshuflle that reflects the kingdom's mounting security concerns and more assertive foreign policy. The move comes just three months after Salman ascended to the throne, at a time when Saudi Arabia is struggling to contain its regional rival, Iran, while fending off a growing threat &om the Islamic State group. The appointments, announced in several royal
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preventing searing pain &om til fall, and a year to the day other drugs used in lethal in- after a problematicexecujections. tion in Oklahoma gave rise s s e s- to a lawsuit from death row But W sion, lasting just over an inmates over the use of midhour, featured broader com- azolam. plaints from conservative The outcome of the case justices that death penalty could turn on a rather naropponents are waging what row question involving the
ezuela'sbiggest cacao export ers addsto a string of probCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. lems plaguing an industry — A Russian supply capsule that the socialist government that went into an uncontrol- once saw as a way to help lable spin after launch was wean the nation off its dependeclareda totallossWednes- dence on petroleum, which day, but astronauts at the accountsfor 96 percent ofthe International Space Station country's export revenue. said they will get by without Venezuela's fine cacao, the the delivery of fresh food, wa- raw ingredient for chocolate, is among the most soughtter, clothes and equipment. Kelly and Russian Mikhail after in the world. Yet sellers Kornienko, the space station's can't get the crop to those who one-year crew members, told want it. The beans Machado the AP during an interview processed with techniques in that flight controllers had giv- use since the 18th century en up trying to command the are still sitting in burlap cargo carrier. NASA and the sacks on the same land where Russian Space Agency later they were harvested with maconfirmed the news. chetes and spread in the sun The unmanned Progress with wooden rakes. Workers say some of it is starting to go bad. April 29 Agriculture Minister Jose Luis Berroteran has not explained why the government cancelledexport permits,but Daily 3 said the administration is working to resolve the issue Afternoon: 8, 1, 4 Evening: 5, 9, 8 and would make resuming exports a priority. 1, 6, 1, 7
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AUSTIN, Texas — Republicans are bringing something unique to the 2016 presidential campaign: an ability to speak to Americans in both of their main mother tongues, Spanish as well as English. Democrats can't match it. Previous GOP candidates couldn' t. But now, paradoxically, the by Hanson Permanente Ce- party that's on the outs with ment Inc. of Dallas. It will also many Hispanic voters over pay $2.55 million in civil pen- immigration is the party that alties for violating the Clean has seriouspresidential canWater Act. didateswho are surefooted in Representatives ofthe U.S. their language. Environmental P r o tection It remains to be seen how Agency, the U.S. Department much Jeb Bush and Marco of Justice and California's Of- Rubio will use their fluent fice of the Attorney General Spanish in the campaign. Ruannounced the settlement bioofFered a few words ofitin Wednesday. his presidential campaign an-
LOS ANGELES — Building on California's ambitious effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called on the stateto further slash its carbon footprint over the next 15 years.
Justice Samuel Alito called
The justices are consider- executions amounts to having the plea of death row in- ing prisoners "burned alive mates in Oklahoma to outlaw &om the inside." the sedative midazolam. The The debate came on the
Lehigh Hanson cement plant near Cupertino, a longtime producer of building materials, will require the facility to spend $5 million to install an advanced wastewater treatment plant to protect the Permanente Creek &om toxic discharges of selenium, nickel and other metals. The cement plant is owned
Greenhousegas emissions to becut
WASHINGTON (AP)Supreme Court justices engaged in an i mpassioned debate Wednesday about capital punishment, trading unusually combative words in a case involving a drug used in several botched ex-
tion to the state's attorney
on Friday Hundreds of p r otesters, many of them students wearing backpacks, marched through downtown, calling for swift justice in the case of Gray. Authorities c a refully monitored the rallyafter teenagersstarted the violence Monday afternoon, throwing bricks and bottles at officers who had gathered near a major bus transfer point. The situ-
a matter of minutes.
Police said 35 people were arrested after the curfew went into effect.
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