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Jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial have found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts, including 17 that carry a possible penalty of death. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11116 Iran dispatched a destroyer and another naval ship to waters off Yemen, raising the stakes amid a Saudi-led air campaign. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11121 NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said, "I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and...definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years." http://www.infobitt.com/b/11101 Jack Nicklaus, 75, the six-time Masters champ, stole the show when he fired a hole-in-one on the 123-yard No. 4, his shot off the tee spinning back into the cup after landing high on the green. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11129 Mandatory residential water restrictions in California have focused attention on water required for crops. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11094 Iraqi government officials said more than 200 Yazidis abducted by the self-proclaimed Islamic State in August

A South Carolina officer has been charged with murder after a video surfaced that appears to show him shooting an unarmed man who was running away. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11069 U.S. officials say Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11071 The U.S. State Department is closing in on a decision to recommend removal of Cuba from its list of countries accused of terrorism, days before President Obama attends a summit with Raul Castro. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11081 In Tikrit, Iraq, forensic teams began exhuming mass graves from up to eight mass burial sites suspected to contain the massacred bodies of some 1,700 captured Iraqi Shia soldiers. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11056 Google is under fire by consumer groups filing a complaint with the FTC for a channel which serves ads to children on its YouTube kids app. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11074 The U.S. government

Kurds are uniting to build Kurdistan in defiance of the self-proclaimed Islamic State [aka ISIS, Daesh]. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11024 Eight family members, including seven children between the ages of 6 and 16, were found dead in a Maryland home, possibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11036 The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will begin deliberations tomorrow. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11032 The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of Rolling Stone's retracted article "A Rape on Campus" plans to sue the magazine for what it called "reckless" reporting that hurt its reputation. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11038 Retired Turkish General Bilgin Balanlı, who was among the 236 suspects acquitted in the “Balyoz” (Sledgehammer) coup-plot case, has said the U.S. or CIA could have had a finger in the coup case. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11016 89 year-old B.B. King was hospitalized near his Las Vegas home for a diabetes-related emergency – a c

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has set up a "multilateral forum of trusted partners" to share information on suspected extremists travelling abroad outside the Five Eyes spy network. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11006 Rolling Stone magazine posted a 12,000-word report retracting the now-notorious University of Virginia rape story, admitting failures at virtually every level, from reporting to editing to fact-checking. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11007 Seeking to quell default fears, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Greece "intends to meet all obligations to all its creditors, ad infinitum." http://www.infobitt.com/b/11012 Taxi drivers drank pesticide in a mass suicide attempt at a protest in Beijing, China. http://www.infobitt.com/b/11011 The Washington Post describes the role of Saddam Hussein's former military commanders and intelligence agents in the rise of the group known as Islamic State. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10992 The 20-year-old son of Kenya's Interior Ministry, a law student,

President Obama called the historic nuclear framework agreement between the United States and Iran "a good deal." http://www.infobitt.com/b/10895 Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a 'fix' for the religious freedom law. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10906 Gunmen from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a university in Kenya and killed at least 147 people. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10905 Germanwings co-pilot Andrew Lubitz had researched suicide, medical treatment and safety of cockpit doors in days leading to his intentional crashing into the Alps. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10879 A fishing trawler sank in freezing waters off Russia's Far East, killing at least 56 people and setting off a frantic search for survivors that led to dozens being rescued alive. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10892 Tuti Yusupova, who is claimed to be the world's oldest ever person, died this week at the age of 135 in Uzbekistan. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10881 Two New York City women have been arrested in an alleged conspira

Eleven former public school employees in Atlanta were found guilty of racketeering in what is thought to be the biggest cheating scandal in American education. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10838 The RCMP arrested six people in the greater Montreal and Toronto areas for running a Canada-wide human-smuggling / prostitution ring. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10841 Storm “Niklas”, one of the strongest of recent years, caused the death of at least three people, while trains and several flights have been cancelled across Germany as the storm rages. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10824 McDonald's, which has been struggling with workers' protests and sagging sales, plans to increase pay for some 90,000 workers starting in July. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10844 The BBC summarized some of the top pranks from around the world, including trampoline-aisles in supermarkets, Simon Cowell's face on the British five pound notes, and CERN discovering The Force. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10842 Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu ha

Saudi-Arabian troops are continuing to clash with Yemeni forces, days after Saudi airstrikes on Yemeni targets. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10810 On the heels of Indiana's controversial religious freedom law, Arkansas lawmakers gave final approval to a similar measure — and the governor says he'll sign it. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10808 Negotiators from the United States, Iran and five other nations extended their deadline until Wednesday as they struggled to agree on a preliminary accord to limit Tehran’s nuclear program. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10806 A one-thousand-year-old medieval garlic and bile potion kills the MRSA superbug. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10811 Indiana Republican Governor Mike Pence vowed that the state would alter a religious liberties bill that has drawn widespread criticism. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10804 Nigerian opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari is set to defeat Goodluck Jonathan, the first time in the nation's history when an incumbent did not win reelection. h

In a cliffhanger of an election, early returns showed Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari almost even. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10764 The governor calls the backlash against Indiana's "religious freedom" law "shameless and reckless". http://www.infobitt.com/b/10748 With the prospect of a default looming in Greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is preparing to meet next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10767 A man has been shot dead by a security guard at the headquarters of the National Security Agency as two men tried to ram the gates. The other was seriously injured. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10749 The European Union has joined the chorus of criticism – echoing concerns of US lawmakers – against Turkey's controversial internal security law, citing the need to ensure universal human rights and freedoms. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10740 Humanitarian workers said an air strike killed at least 40 people at a camp for displa

In French local elections, Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right party ousted the ruling Socialists from 61 départements (counties), including traditional left-wing bastions in the industrial north. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10734 A major 7.5 earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea, but a tsunami warning was canceled and no damage is known to have been done so far. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10733 The 'black box' reveals that the suicidal Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz urged the pilot of their plane to take a bathroom break. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10722 Antarctica may have experienced its hottest day ever on March 24 after the continent hit 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius) for the first time. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10732 Boko Haram extremists are advancing on Nigeria's northeastern city of Bauchi, threatening to disrupt the vote of a critical presidential election that is still taking place in some areas of the state. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10714 In a significant development in talks aim

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff announced that he has ordered his company to reduce travel and sales programs in the US state of Indiana in protest over their religious freedom law recently passed. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10570 Scientists urge human embryo modifications must be halted, citing the risks associated with unforeseen consequences of those modifications getting passed on to future generations. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10591 Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and their allies have launched an attack against Shia Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen's president. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10555 NASA has announced a plan to put a rock from an asteroid in orbit around the moon. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10577 A French prosecutor has said the co-pilot of the Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10557 A team of scientists has discovered that shelves in the West Antarctic are shrinking a lot faster than they realized. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10580 The first HIV c

American warplanes began airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Tikrit for the first time after more than three weeks of remaining on the sidelines. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10538 An investigator said evidence from a cockpit voice recorder from the Germanwings aircraft indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane’s descent and was unable to get back in. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10527 The Army announced U.S. soldier and former Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with desertion and could face life in confinement over his disappearance from an outpost in 2009. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10537 Republican Party leaders asked the Obama administration to specify when it first learned that Hillary Clinton's pledge to disclose all donors to her family's charities had been "repeatedly violated." http://www.infobitt.com/b/10550 In a 5-4 split—with the progressive wing winning—the Supreme Court vacated the decision of an Alabama judicial panel, ordering a re-examination of what appears to

A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of a suspect. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10517 U.S. officials said Saudi Arabia is moving heavy military equipment near its border with Yemen, raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10512 Senator Ted Cruz, recently-declared Republican presidential candidate, said that he will be getting insurance through an Obamacare exchange, as the law requires, since his wife is quitting her job. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10513 Numerous telecommunication companies have filed lawsuits in response to the FCC's net neutrality ruling. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10509 Controversial religious freedom legislation that could protect business owners who don't want to provide services for same-sex couples is poised to become law in Indiana. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10516 Amazon is not pleased with the pace by which the FAA is addressing the commercial use of

An Afghan woman, brutally murdered on video by a mob believing the false accusation that she burned a Koran, has become a rallying point for women's rights activists. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10494 The Charlottesville Police Department said an investigation found no credible evidence to support claims from a former student that she was raped by men during a party at the University of Virginia. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10493 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under continued criticism, now from White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10495 Before Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars occupied the inner solar system, there may have been a previous generation of planets that were bigger and more numerous – but were ultimately doomed by Jupiter. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10492 Texas Senator Ted Cruz kicked off his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech at the conservative Liberty University. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10473 Th