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Oil slicks spread 9 miles off coast
in late afternoon at Manhattan's Ed Sullivan Theater. It airs at11:35 p.m. Eastern.
Photographers clustered outsidethe 53rd Street side GOLETA — An oil spill entrance to the theater shot from a r u ptured onshore a steady stream of celebripipeline that fouled beach- tiesarriving forthe lasttapes and threatened wildlife ing, including Jerry Seinfeld, along a scenic stretch of Chris Rock, Tina Fey, Jim the Californiacoast spread Carrey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, across 9 miles of ocean Steve Martin, Barbara WalWednesday and ofiicials said ters, Peyton Manning and up to 105,000 gallons may Alee Baldwin. have leaked out. U p to a fi f t h o f t h a t amount — 21,000 gallonsreached the sea, according to
Group of banks fined over $5B
estimates.
Federal regulators were i nvestigating the leak as w orkers inprotective suits raked and shoveled stinky black goo offthe beaches, and boats towed booms into place to corral the two slicks off the Santa Barbara coast. T he coastline was t h e scene of a much larger spill in 1969 — the largest in U.S. waters at the time — that is
credited with giving rise to the American environmental movement.
Crude wasfl owingthrough the pipe at 84,000 gallons an hour when the leak was detected Tuesday. It took three hours to shut down, though company officials didn't say how long it leaked before it was discovered or discuss the rateatwhich oilescaped.
NATION
Letterman makes final late-night broadcoast for CBS NEW YORK — After 33 years and 6,028 broadcasts of his late-night show, David Letterman is signing off. The transplanted Hoosier, who made Top Ten lists and ironic humor staples of television comedy and influenced a generation of performers, hosted his final episode of CBS' "Late Show" on Wednesday. Stephen Colbert will replace him in September. Letterman announced his retirement last year and has kept details of his final show under wraps. The show taped
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WASHINGTON — Four of the world's biggest banks agreed Wednesday to pay more than $5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to rigging the currency markets — a rare instance in which f ederal
p r o secutors h a v e
wrung an admission of criminal wrongdoing from a major financial institution. Traders a t JP M organ Chase, Citigroup's banking unit Citicorp, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland were accused of working together to manipulate rates on the foreign exchange market, where hundreds of billions of dollars and euros change hands back and forth. The penalties are a victory for the government and relect a broader effort by the f Justice Department, long criti cized asreluctant to prosecute big banks, to tackle financial misconduct. In the past 18 months, prosecutors have brought criminal cases against banks accused of tax evasion and
sanctions violations, and have reached multibillion-dollar settlements with several othersfortheirrolesin the 2008 financial meltdown.
WORLD
Malaysia, Myanmar to talk migrant crisis
US rel eases bin Ladendocuments WASHINGTON (AP) Documents swept up in the
raid on Osama bin Laden's compound portray a leader cut off from his underlings, disappointed by their failures, beset by their complaints and regretting years of separation from much of his extensive family. Focus your fighting on America, not each other, the sidelined al-Qaida chief exhorts his followers. In a
videotaped will, he urges one of his wives, should she remarry after his death, to still choose to live beside him in paradise. He also directs her to send their son to the battlefield. Despite some surprising quirks in the collection, the overallmessage of the 103 letters,videos and reports made public Wednesday hews to the terror group's familiar mission: In the name
of God, find a way to kill compound will be reviewed Drone strikes against alAmericans. Kill Europeans. for possible declassification Qaida leaders in Pakistan, Kill Jews. and release, the office said the near-suflocation of the "Uproot th e o bnoxious W ednesday, four years after group's affiliate in Iraq betree byconcentrating on its bin Laden's death. ginning in 2007, and other American trunk," bin Laden The documents, as trans- developments severely unwrites in a letter urging al- lated by U.S. intelligence d ercut bin Laden in t h e Qaida afliliates in North Af- officials, mix the mundane years before his death. The rica to not be distracted by language of business — per- terroristthreat shifted to fighting local security forces sonnel training, budget mat- al-Qaida affiliates in other and to avoid Muslim infight- ters, financing for "work- areas, including in Yemen lilg. shops and c o llaborating and North Africa. U.S. ofThe U.S. Office of the Di- groups" — with fervent re- ficialshave said that atthe rector of N a t ional I n t elli- ligious appeals and updates time of bin Laden's death gence said the documents, re- on terrorism plots, all writ- al-Qaidano longer exercised leasedas online im ages,were ten in flowery language full the same level of control he among a collection of books, of praise forGod. once had. U.S. think tank reports and The documents include a A May 2007 letter to bin other materials recovered in fill-in-the-blanks job applica- Laden fi .om "the Jihad and the May 2011 raid that killed tionfor al-Qaida candidates Reform Front" implores him bin Laden at his compound that not only asks typical to disavow ' the ongoing cain Abbottabad, Pakistan. human resources questions tastrophes and disasters" The information was de- about education and hobbies committed by al-Qaida in classified and made public but also, Do you wish to ex- Iraq, the forerunner of toafter a review by govern- ecute a suicide operation?" day'sIslamic State group, ment agencies, as required It requests an e mergency which strayed from al-Qaiby a 2014 law. Hundreds contact should the applicant da'sorderswith itsbrutalatmore documents found at the become a martyr. tacks on fellow Muslims.
Legion of foreign fighters battles for IS PANKISI GORGE, Georgia (AP)One day this April, instead of coming home from school, two teenagers left their valley high in the Caucasus, and went off to war. In M i nneapolis, M i nnesota, a 20-year-oldstole her friend's passport to make the same hazardous journey. From New Zealand, came a former securityguard; from Canada, a hockey fan wholoved to fi sh and hunt. And there have been many, many more: between 16,000 and 17,000, according to one independent Western estimate, men and a small number of
leader, has appealed to Muslims and Iraq has now drawn more volunthroughout the world to move to lands teer fighters than past Islamist causes under its control — to fight, but also to in Afghanistan and the former Yugowork as administrators, doctors, judg- slavia — and an estimated eight out of es, engineers and scholars, and to mar- 10 enlistees have joined Islamic State. ry, put down roots and start families. They have been there for defeats "Every person can contribute some- and victories. Following major losses thing to the Islamic State," a Canadian in both Syria and Iraq, the fighters of enlistee in Islamic State, Andre Poulin, Islamic State appear to have gotten a says ina videotaped statement that second wind in recent days, capturing has been used for online recruitment. Ramadi, capital of Iraq's largest Sunni 'You can easily earn yourself a higher province, and advancing in central Syrstation with God almighty for the next ia to the outskirts of the ancient city of life by sacrificing just a small bit of this Palmyra, famous for its 2,000-year-old worldly life." ruins. women from 90 countries or more who The contingent of foreigners who There are battle-hardened Bosnians have streamed to Syria and Iraq to have taken up arms on behalf of Islam- and Chechens, prized for their experiwage Muslim holy war for the Islamic ic State during the past 3 V2 years is ence and elan under fire. There are reState. more than twice as big as the French ligious zealots untested in combat but Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the group's Foreign Legion. The conflict in Syria eagerto die fortheir faith.
State farmer water
cuts to apply broadly
PUTRAJAYA, M alaysia — The foreign minister of Malaysia will visit Myanmar today to discuss Southeast Asia's migrant crisis, a day aRer Indonesia and Malaysia offered to temporarily take in thousands of people who have been stranded at sea in a major breakthrough that could ease the emergency. Foreign Minister Anifah Aman will hold talks with his Myanmar counterpart to exchange views on irregular movements of people, in particular human trafficking and people smuggling in Southeast Asia, according to the ministry. In the past three weeks, more than 3,000 peopleRohingya Muslims fleeing
is volunteering to give up a even if the drought deepens fourth of its available water and other users go dry. this year, ~ a re s ource The o6er was made as all but g to them for these and other "senior water more than a century. rights holders" face an immiA senior water oflicial nent threat of being induded told The Associated Press in the mandatory cutbacks Wednesday that he would de- that apply to most other Calicidewhether to acceptthe of- fornia water users. fer by Friday. The concession Water Resources Control by farmers in the Sacramento Board ~ r To m Howard and San Joaquin river delta told the AP Wednesday that could be one of the most im- whatever he diodes will apportantyetforced by Califor- ply beyond the river delta to nia's record four-year drought. the entire basin of the SacraIn exchange for taking 25 mento River, which supplies percentless river water for most of the surface water in tionor leaving a quar- the food-producing Central ter of their fields unplanted, Valley and provides drinking
persecution in Myanmar and
the farmers want guarantees
water to homeowners across
Bangladeshis trying to escape poverty — have landed in overcrowded boats on the shores of Southeast Asian countries better known for their white-sand beaches. Aid groups estimate that thousands more are stranded atsea following a crack-
that the state won't restiict
California.
SACRAWKNTO (AP) — A the remaining 75 percent of group of California farmers, the water they' ve had rights
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Oldest known stone tools found in Kenya N EW YORK (AP) B y a wrong turn in a dry riverbedin Kenya, scientists discovereda trove of stone tools far older than any ever found before. Nobody knows who made them — or why. At 3.3 million years old, they push back the record of stonetools by about 700,000 years. More significantly, they are half-a-million years older than any known trace of our own branch of the evolutionary tree.
S cientists h av e lo n g thought that sharp-edged stone tools were made only by members of our branch, whose members are designated 'Homo," like our own species, Homo sapiens. That idea has been questioned, has examined some of the and the new finding is a big tools.
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boost to the argument that tool-~ may h ave begun with smaller-brained forerunners instead. The discovery was reported by Sonia Harmed and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University in New York and coauthors in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature. The find drew rave reviews &om experts unconnected to the work "It really absolutely moves the beginnings of human technology back into a much more distant past, and a much diQerent kind of ancestor than we' ve been thinking of," said anthropology professor Alison Brooks of George Washington University, who
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