Tuesday, April 26, 2016

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 27/04/2016





Unconventional #6: Why Clinton will win bigger than Trump in Tuesday's primaries (and more!)
Ted Cruz and John Kasich are working together to keep Donald Trump from hitting 1,237 delegates before the GOP convention in Cleveland in July. The question now is whether their alliance will backfire.

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Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl catastrophe
More than 200 tonnes of uranium remain inside Chernobyl's dilapidated reactor number four -- which exploded in 1986Ukrainians held candlelit vigils Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several thousand people dead or dying. Church bells rang and mourners lit candles and laid flowers at the site's memorial as the clock turned 1.23 am -- the exact moment when the plant's reactor number four exploded and changed the fate of a generation living across the former Soviet Union. The exact number of dead remains a subject of intense debate because the Soviet authorities kept most of the information about Chernobyl under wraps.



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Storms on Tuesday could bring powerful tornadoes to Plains
Storms on Tuesday could bring powerful tornadoes to PlainsSchool districts and authorities are bracing for the possibility of a severe weather outbreak that could bring powerful, long-track tornadoes and large hail Tuesday to the Great Plains. The most dangerous ...



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Canadian executed by Islamic militants in Philippines: Trudeau
Canadian tourist John Ridsdel was kidnapped by gunmen on September 21, 2015, on Samal island in the southern PhilippinesIslamic militants in the Philippines have executed a Canadian hostage, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, after the Filipino authorities said they had found the head of a foreign man on a remote island. "I'm outraged by the news that a Canadian citizen, John Ridsdel, held hostage in the Philippines since September 21, 2015, has been killed at the hands of his captors," Trudeau said. Ridsdel, fellow Canadian tourist Robert Hall, Hall's girlfriend Filipina Marites Flor, and Norwegian resort manager Kjartan Sekkingstad were kidnapped seven months ago from yachts at a marina near the major city of Davao, more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from Jolo.



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Federal judge upholds North Carolina photo ID mandate
A pile of government pamphlets explaining North Carolina's controversial The judge dismisses lawsuits challenging an election law that requires voters to show photo identification when casting ballots.



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Transgender rights: Where 2016 candidates stand on bathroom bills
Transgender rights: Where 2016 candidates stand on bathroom billsTed Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Terre Haute, Ind., on April 24, 2016. The rights of transgender people have become an unlikely talking point in the 2016 presidential election. Controversy erupted last month after North Carolina passed House Bill 2 (HB2) requiring people to only use restrooms that correspond with their biological sex, as stated on their birth certificate.



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Donald Trump mocks John Kasich’s ‘disgusting’ eating habits at raucous rally
Donald Trump mocks John Kasich’s ‘disgusting’ eating habits at raucous rallyDonald Trump mocks John Kasich’s ‘disgusting’ eating habits at raucous rally


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Tom Brady's four-game suspension reinstated by appeals court
AFC Championship - New England Patriots v Denver BroncosTom Brady's four-game suspension for deflate-gate has been reinstated for the start of this season.



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TV personality Erin Andrews settles video stalker case: reports
Show co-host Erin Andrews arrives at the 2015 CMT Awards in Nashville(Reuters) - Television personality Erin Andrews has reached a settlement with the owner and operator of the Nashville hotel where a nude video of her that went viral was secretly recorded, according to media reports on Monday. Terms of the agreement are confidential and the matter is now over, according to newspaper the Tennessean, the ABC TV affiliate in Nashville and E! News - all of which cited Andrews' lawyer. A jury in March found the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University liable for the video and awarded Andrews $55 million in damages to be paid by the hotel and the man who shot the video.



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Prosecutor: Hundreds of pot plants grown where 8 were killed
CORRECTS FROM PIKETOWN TO PIKETON- Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader addresses the media, hesitating briefly before saying that his county is small and he knows the family, at a press conference in Piketon, Ohio, on Friday, April 22, 2016. Reader stated that multiple victims were killed in an execution style shooting and that the shooter is still at large. (Sam Greene/The Cincinnati Equirer via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALESCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Four days after the calculated killings of eight people in rural Ohio, a prosecutor revealed Monday that marijuana was found at some of the crime scenes, including a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants.



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Obama ramps up special forces mission in Syria against Islamic State
U.S. President Obama gestures as he makes a speach during the opening ceremony of the Hannover Messe in HanoverThe deployment aims to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State.



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Bernie Sanders surrogate Rosario Dawson under fire again — this time for invoking Monica Lewinsky
Bernie Sanders surrogate Rosario Dawson under fire again — this time for invoking Monica LewinskyBernie Sanders surrogate Rosario Dawson under fire again — this time for invoking Monica Lewinsky


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White House set to release secret pages from 9/11 inquiry
FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2012, file photo Bob Graham speaks in Gainesville, Fla.. The Obama administration will likely soon release at least part of a 28-page secret chapter from a congressional inquiry into 9/11 that may shed light on possible Saudi connections to the attackers. Graham and others say the documents point suspicion at the Saudis. Graham says an Obama administration official told him that intelligence officials will decide in the next several weeks whether to release at least parts of the documents, a disclosure that comes at a time of strained U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia, a long-time American ally. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin, File)The release will include at least part of a 28-page secret chapter from the congressional inquiry.



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Delegate math: How Tuesday could close door on Sanders bid
In this April 21, 2016, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a campaign event in Hartford, Conn. Clinton can’t win enough delegates on April 25 to officially knock Bernie Sanders out of the race for president, but she can erase any honest doubts still left that she will soon be the Democratic Party’s nominee.(AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Hillary Clinton can erase any lingering honest doubts about whether she'll soon be the Democratic nominee.



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Soul great Billy Paul dies at 81
Billy Paul topped the mainstream charts in 1972 with Billy Paul, a star from the Philadelphia soul scene who won fame with the suave "Me and Mrs. Jones" before drawing controversy with his racially charged politics, has died. Known for his uplifting, mellifluous voice, Paul won a Grammy Award and helped shape the course of modern R&B, but fell on the losing end of one of the music industry's legendary tales of poor marketing. Born as Paul Williams in Philadelphia, the singer came of age as the eastern city became an epicenter of a style of soul music known for smooth and jazzy melodies.



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