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TOP STORIES

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CAPITOL LOCKDOWN — The man who rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, killing one officer before he was shot to death by police, had been suffering from delusions, paranoia and suicidal thoughts. That’s according to a U.S. official who spoke to The Associated Press on Saturday. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official says investigators are focused on Noah Green’s mental health as they work to identify any motive for the attack, and they have talked to Green’s family, who spoke of his increasingly delusional thoughts. By Michael Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Nomaan Merchant. SENT: 890 words, photos. With: CAPITOL LOCKDOWN-SECURITY — The latest deadly breach of the Capitol’s perimeter could delay the gradual reopening of the building’s grounds to the public just as lawmakers were eyeing a return to more normal security measures after the Jan. 6 riot. Only weeks ago, Capitol Police removed an outer fence that had cut off a wide swath of the area. By Mary Clare Jalonick. SENT: 1,070 words, photos, video.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-KUWAIT-VACCINE INEQUALITY — Many foreigners who power the economy in the tiny, oil-rich sheikhdom of Kuwait are struggling to get coronavirus vaccines. The expats make up 70% of the population in the country, yet Kuwait is unlike other Gulf Arab states that have administered doses to masses of foreign workers in a race to reach herd immunity. Kuwait has come under fire for its blatant choice to vaccinate its own people first. By Isabel Debre SENT: 1,060 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK — Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices. By Mark Scolforo. SENT: 1,090 words, photos.

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WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT

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PEOPLE-DMX — DMX’s longtime New York-based lawyer, Murray Richman, said the rapper was on life support Saturday evening at White Plains Hospital. Richman says the artist had a heart attack. SENT: 470 words, photo.

SCREEN ACTOR GUILD AWARDS — Several Oscar hopefuls will reunite at Sunday’s Screen Actor Guild Awards, albeit in the same virtual, socially-distanced way that most gatherings have happened in the last year. SENT: 270 words, photos.

DEADLY SHOOTING-PARTY — Police in the North Carolina city of Wilmington say that seven people have been shot and three of them killed at a house party. 220 words, photos.

DUBAI NUDITY ARRESTS — Police in Dubai have arrested a group of people on charges of public debauchery, over a widely shared video that showed naked women posing on a balcony in the city. SENT: 250 words, photos.

INDONESIA-SEA COLLISION — Indonesian authorities say a collision between a cargo ship and a fishing boat has left 17 people missing off Indonesia’s main island of Java. SENT: 110 words, photos.

CHINA-HIGHWAY COLLISION — Eleven people have been killed and 19 people injured after a truck and a passenger bus collided in eastern China. SENT: 170 words, photos.

INDONESIA-LAND SLIDE — Landslides and flash floods from torrential rains in eastern Indonesia have killed at least 23 people and displaced thousands. SENT: 270 words, photo.

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INTERNATIONAL

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JORDAN — The half-brother of Jordan’s King Abdullah says he has been placed under house arrest by Jordanian authorities, accusing the country’s leadership of corruption and incompetence. SENT: 1,020 words, photos.

ALBANIA CARPETS — Albania once had 13 former state-run factories that produced carpets, rugs, fez hats, folk costumes and other hand-made clothing and artifacts. Kukes, a town northeast of the capital, Tirana, alone employed more than 1,200 women as weavers. When the country’s communist era ended in 1990, the local factory closed. Today, the town is one of the poorest in Albania, which itself is one of the poorest countries in Europe. SENT: 930 words, photos.

GREECE-SHUTTERED RESTAURANTS-PHOTO GALLERY — Silence has replaced the low hum of conversation and the clink of glasses that pervaded the sidewalk cafes across Athens. Their chairs and tables, once occupied throughout the day and deep into the night, stand stacked in empty piles, some secured by chains. SENT: 390 words, photos.

BULGARIA ELECTION — Bulgarians are heading to the polls to cast ballots for a new parliament after months of anti-government protests and amid a surge in coronavirus infections. The 12,000 polling stations opened at 7 a.m. Sunday for the 6.7 million eligible voters who are electing 240 lawmakers. SENT: 320 words, photos.

MYANMAR — Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar have taken to the streets on Sunday holding painted eggs in a nod to the Christian festival of Easter. In the biggest city of Yangon, one group marched chanting and singing protest songs and cradling eggs bearing the slogan Spring Revolution. SENT: 360 words, photos.

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NATIONAL

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CALIFORNIA-OFFICE SHOOTING — The estranged wife of the man who allegedly went on a shooting rampage in a Southern California office building earlier this week that left four people dead said Saturday that she couldn’t fathom why her husband targeted people who had treated her like family for more than a decade. SENT: 440 words, photos.

CONVENIENCE-STORE ATTACK — An Asian-owned convenience store in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been trashed by a man who wielded a metal post and yelled racial slurs. The Charlotte Observer reports that the incident occurred Tuesday amid a nationwide spike in anti-Asian attacks. SENT: 550 words.

WASTEWATER-RESERVOIR LEAK — Florida’s governor has declared a state of emergency after a significant leak at a large storage pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted waters. SENT: 650 words.

ANTI-ASIAN ATTACK-NEW YORK SUBWAY — New York City police have asked for the public’s help in finding a man wanted for yelling anti-Asian slurs at a 44-year-old woman and her three children, spitting at her and kicking her cellphone off a subway train. SENT: 270 words, photos.

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BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY

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FACEBOOK-DATA FOUND ONLINE — Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is. SENT: 220 words.

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SPORTS

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BKC--FINAL FOUR-UCLA-GONZAGA — Gonzaga has given fans the NCAA championship game they wanted with a shot for the ages. Jalen Suggs banked in a shot from near midcourt at the buzzer, giving the heavily favored Zags a 93-90 overtime victory against upstart UCLA By National Writer Eddie Pells. SENT: 1,050 words, photos.

BKC--FINAL FOUR-HOUSTON-BAYLOR — Jared Butler scored 17 points to lead five Baylor players in double figures, and the Bears roared to a 78-59 victory over Houston in the Final Four. By Dave Skretta. SENT: 1,090 words, photos.

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