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  • Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, attends the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba's opening session, at the Convention Palace in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Ariel Ley Royero/ACN via AP)

    Raul Castro resigns as Communist chief, ending era in Cuba

  • Police stand near the scene where multiple people were shot at the FedEx Ground facility early Friday morning, April 16, 2021, in Indianapolis. A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings in the United States after a relative lull during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

    FBI says it interviewed FedEx mass shooter last year

  • FILE - In this April 14, 2021, file photo, Liliana Carrillo, right, appears with her representative, Deputy Public Defender Brandon Mata, during her arraignment in Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, Calif. The California woman suspected of killing her three children in the midst of a bitter custody battle said Thursday, April 15 that she drowned them to keep them away from their father, a television station reported. In a jailhouse interview, Carrillo told KGET-TV that she wanted to "protect" them from abuse, the station reported. (Alex Horvath/The Bakersfield Californian via AP, File)

    California woman says she drowned children to protect them

  • People take part in a protest near the Brooklyn Center Police Department over Sunday's fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    Minnesota mayor blasts police tactics to control protesters

  • President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

    After outcry, White House says Biden will lift refugee cap in May

  • The Royal Caribbean cruise ship Reflection sits docked waiting to evacuate a group of British, Canadian and U.S. nationals in Kingstown, on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, Friday, April 16, 2021. La Soufriere volcano has shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash Friday morning as the cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St. Vincent island by a week of violent eruptions. (AP Photo/Orvil Samuel)

    New blast at St. Vincent volcano; cruise ship helps evacuees

  • FILE - In this Thursday, April 1, 2021 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Human Rights ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Hit by a barrage of new sanctions from the Biden administration, the Kremlin is carefully weighing its response in a tense showdown with the United States. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

    Russia to expel 10 US diplomats in response to Biden actions

  • Dozens of protesters march down the Magnificent Mile after the city of Chicago released videos of 13-year-old Adam Toledo being fatally shot by a Chicago police officer, Thursday evening, April 15, 2021, in Chicago. Toledo was shot to death by an officer on March 29 in an alley west of the 2300 block of South Sawyer Avenue in Little Village on the Southwest Side. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

    Chicago police critics call for charges in shooting of 13-year-old boy

  • FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 23, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a joint statement with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    U.S. says Russia was given Trump campaign polling data in 2016

  • Martin Lee, center, 82-year-old lawyer and former lawmaker, leaves a court after his jail sentences suspended in Hong Kong Friday, April 16, 2021. A Hong Kong court on Friday sentenced five leading pro-democracy advocates, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, to up to 18 months in prison for organizing a march during the 2019 anti-government protests that triggered an overwhelming crackdown from Beijing. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

    Hong Kong democracy leaders given jail terms amid crackdown

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    U.S. setting up $1.7B national network to track virus variants

  • In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, Tomiko Shine, left, holds a sign with a photo of Tamir Rice, a boy fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer, while protesting a grand jury's decision in Ferguson, Mo., not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, during a demonstration in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

    Family asks feds to reopen case on Tamir Rice police killing

  • Residents line up for vaccinations at a shopping district in in Beijing on Monday, April 12, 2021. China's success at controlling the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a population that has seemed almost reluctant to get vaccinated. So it is accelerating its inoculation campaign by offering incentives — free eggs, store coupons and discounts on groceries and merchandise — to those getting a shot. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

    China ramps up vaccination drive with free eggs, other goods

  • This satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Iran's Natanz nuclear site suffered a problem Sunday, April 11, involving its electrical distribution grid just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges that more quickly enrich uranium, state TV reported. It was the latest incident to strike one of Tehran's most-secured sites amid negotiations over the tattered atomic accord with world powers. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

    Iran starts enriching uranium to 60%, its highest level ever