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Arresting officer in Freddie Gray case chooses trial before judge

A police officer charged in the Freddie Gray case chose Tuesday to stand trial before a judge rather than a jury, eliminating a potential wild card in the divisive and emotionally charged case.

 
Obama will be first US president to visit Hiroshima

Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month, but he will not apologize for the United States’ dropping of an atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War II, the White House said on Tuesday.

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Alberta officials say city saved from worst of wildfire

Alberta premier’s declared Canada’s oil sands city saved and said a plan will be put together within two weeks so 88,000 residents forced to evacuate can return to their homes. At least two neighborhoods in Fort McMurray were scenes of utter devastation with incinerated homes leveled to the ground from a wildfire that the city’s fire chief called a “beast … a fire like I’ve never seen in my life.”

 
Group goes public with Panama Papers data

A group of investigative journalists on Monday published the names of thousands of offshore companies at the heart of a massive trove of data on the finances of the rich and powerful that has become known as the Panama Papers.

 
‘Seven Magic Mountains’ adds vivid color to the desert — PHOTOS

The land art project in the Jean dry lake bed is deliberate in its eye-popping appearance. “In the past, land art has been camouflaging art,” designed to fit into the terrain, artist Ugo Rondinone says. But “by giving a layer of color, we are bringing together the pop art movement and land art.”

 
Navajo Nation to create new tribal alert system in wake of girl’s death

The Navajo Nation’s president has reacted to concerns raised by the abduction and death of an 11-year-old girl by setting a 60-day goal for establishing a new tribal alert system to provide notifications of abductions and other emergencies.

 
North Carolina, feds trade lawsuits over ‘bathroom law’

A potentially epic clash over transgender rights took shape Monday when the U.S. Justice Department sued North Carolina over the state’s new bathroom law after the governor refused to back down.

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