| Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia kills 2, recorder recovered Posted: 03 Apr 2016 04:34 PM PDT  The train, carrying about 330 passengers, derailed when it hit a backhoe.
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| Trump tries to turn the page on a bad week Posted: 03 Apr 2016 10:59 AM PDT  The Republican frontrunner attempts to recover from arguably the most disastrous stretch of his presidential campaign.
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| News group: Huge tax leak exposes Putin aides, world leaders, stars Posted: 03 Apr 2016 04:47 PM PDT  A massive leak of 11.5 million tax documents on Sunday exposed the secret offshore dealings of aides to Russian president Vladimir Putin, world leaders and celebrities including Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. The vast stash of records was obtained from an anonymous source by German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and shared with media worldwide by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The documents, from around 214,000 offshore entities, came from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm with offices in more than 35 countries.
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| 1st passenger flight leaves Brussels since March 22 attacks Posted: 03 Apr 2016 08:38 AM PDT  It was an emotional send-off on Sunday for a Brussels Airlines plane heading to the Portuguese city of Faro — the first passenger flight to take off from Brussels Airport since suicide bombings on March ...
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| Tesla says Model 3 orders top $10 billion in first 36 hours Posted: 03 Apr 2016 11:03 AM PDT  By Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc said orders for its new Model 3 electric sedan topped 253,000 in the first 36 hours -- a fast start for the company's first mass-market vehicle, which may not begin to reach customers for another 18 months or more. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that the Model 3, which is slated to go into production in late 2017, will sell at an average price of $42,000, including the price of options and additional features, which would give the initial flurry of orders an estimated retail value of $10.6 billion. The car's average selling price projected by Musk is well above the $35,000 base price.
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| After Palmyra, Syrian troops take another IS-controlled town Posted: 03 Apr 2016 09:46 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A week after taking back the historic town of Palmyra, Syrian troops and their allies on Sunday captured another town controlled by the Islamic State group in central Syria, state media reported.
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| Trump threat to run as independent counterproductive: party chief Posted: 03 Apr 2016 09:43 AM PDT  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus said on Sunday that Donald Trump is making it harder for himself to win the Republican presidential nomination by threatening to run as an independent if he is not treated fairly. In several television interviews, Priebus, who chairs the Republican National Committee, said candidates sometimes make such statements in hopes of gaining leverage over the party, but that it would not work. "Those kinds of comments, I think, have consequences," Priebus said on ABC's "This Week." "And so when you make those kinds of comments and you want people to fall in line for you, it makes it more difficult. "... And certainly, you know, if you were running for president of the Kiwanis Club or the Boy Scouts and you said you don't know if you like the Kiwanis or the Boy Scouts, I think that makes your challenge even greater to ultimately win those kinds of posts," he said.
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| Sen. Graham to Arab world: US hasn't changed despite Trump Posted: 03 Apr 2016 12:41 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham sought to reassure the Arab world Sunday over the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president, saying in Cairo that Congress would continue to play a primary role in foreign policy, "regardless of what Mr. Trump says or does."
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| North Carolina looks for 6th NCAA title against Villanova Posted: 02 Apr 2016 08:33 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — North Carolina will look for its sixth NCAA championship when the Tar Heels meet the Villanova Wildcats, trying for their second, on Monday night.
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| 'It was a mistake': Trump regrets retweet of Cruz wife Posted: 02 Apr 2016 05:53 PM PDT  Donald Trump says he regrets retweeting an unflattering picture of the wife of arch-rival Ted Cruz, in a rare act of contrition from the Republican presidential frontrunner. Trump is in pole position to seize the Republican nomination but is doing poorly nationwide among women voters, polls show, and faced stern criticism from all sides in recent days after saying women who have illegal abortions should be "punished," before he backtracked. The billionaire real-estate mogul has been engaged in an increasingly personal war of words with Cruz, his nearest challenger in the Republican race for the White House, that even drew in their wives.
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