Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Evening Edition: Indiana primary could bring the demise of Cruz and Kasich candidacies

Metro's 'ineffective' practices led to deadly smoke incident, NTSB finds; Melania Trump: From professional pretty person to potential first lady ; U.S. troops are getting closer to the fight against ISIS in Iraq; The biggest threat of climate change is to the water supply, World Bank says; Americans may be overmedicating youngest children with ADHD, warns CDC; Archaeologists believe they’ve found Captain James Cook's sunken ship; Controversial GOP delegate who called Trump 'racist' lied about D.C. residency, officials say; Israeli who burned Palestinian teen alive is sentenced to life in prison; Dark streaks on the Martian surface may be formed by bubbling, boiling sand; Amid turmoil over transgender issue, group claims to be sending men into women's restrooms in Target ; ‘He thought he could help': Concealed carry gun-wielder intervenes in domestic dispute and is shot dead; The real reason some people end up with partners who are way more attractive;
 
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Indiana primary could bring the demise of Cruz and Kasich candidacies
The state appears poised to move Donald Trump closer to locking up the nomination rather than denying him crucial delegates.
Metro's 'ineffective' practices led to deadly smoke incident, NTSB finds
Federal officials issued a scathing critique of the transit agency's safety inspection and maintenance practices in a report on the Jan. 12, 2015, emergency in a Yellow Line tunnel near Metro's L'Enfant Plaza station that killed one rider.
 
Melania Trump: From professional pretty person to potential first lady
Most modern first ladies did not craft a career based on the sparkle in their eyes, the lushness of their hair or the legginess of their legs. But for Donald Trump's wife, her livelihood has always been her genetics.
 
U.S. troops are getting closer to the fight against ISIS in Iraq
A new firebase is part of a creeping U.S. buildup since troops first returned to the country with a contingent of 275 advisers, described at the time by the Pentagon as a temporary measure.
 
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The biggest threat of climate change is to the water supply, World Bank says
A new report says that 1.6 billion people already live with water scarcity and that the number could double, leading to food supply problems and wrecked economies.
 
Americans may be overmedicating youngest children with ADHD, warns CDC
An eyebrow-raising 75 percent of preschoolers with ADHD received medications while fewer than half received the recommended behavior therapy, according to government statistics.
 
Archaeologists believe they’ve found Captain James Cook's sunken ship
Rhode Island officials will announce tomorrow whether the ship, used in the discovery of Australia and later scuttled by the British in Rhode Island, is one of five ships they've found on the sea floor.
 
Controversial GOP delegate who called Trump 'racist' lied about D.C. residency, officials say
A businesswoman who has called Donald Trump a "racist, misogynist, flip-flopper" will not get a chance to vote against him at the Republican National Convention.
 
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Israeli who burned Palestinian teen alive is sentenced to life in prison
The 2014 killing in East Jerusalem was part of a summer of violence that contributed to the war between Israel and Hamas.
 
Dark streaks on the Martian surface may be formed by bubbling, boiling sand
Because of its thin atmosphere, water can boil at 32 degrees Fahrenheit on Mars, and when it does, it causes grains of sand to pop off the planet's surface, scientists said.
 
Amid turmoil over transgender issue, group claims to be sending men into women's restrooms in Target
The American Family Association said it is challenging the retailer over its decision to allow transgender customers to use the bathroom of their choice.
 
‘He thought he could help': Concealed carry gun-wielder intervenes in domestic dispute and is shot dead
T.J. Antell saw a man shoot a woman in the leg in Arlington, Texas. When he tried to stop the man from driving away, Antell was shot in the head.
 
The real reason some people end up with partners who are way more attractive
Research explains the rise and fall of the mixed-attractiveness couple.
 
 
     
 
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