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and conspiring to destroy evidence in the bombing. • • 2. DETAINED AMERICAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN NORTH KOREA • Kenneth Bae was ordered to serve hard labor for crimes against the state in a case that complicates strained ties between Pyongyang and Washington. • • 3. REPRODUCTIVE GROUPS DENOUNCE US APPEAL ON PLAN B • They say lowering the age to 15 for purchasers of the morning-after pill makes emergency contraception available for women of all ages. • • 4. OBAMA VISIT TO MEXICO AIMS TO BREAK GROUND IN IMMIGRATION • The AP's Jim Kuhnhenn reports the president needs Mexico's growing economy and a president able to secure the border to sell his immigration overhaul in the U.S. • • 5.RISING TOLL IN BANGLADESH • Rescuers have now found 430 bodies in the debris of the collapsed garment factory, as a mass Muslim funeral is held for unidentified victims. • • 6. WHAT KIDS HAVE MORE OF • A study says 1 in 20 now have food allergies, a 50 percent increase from the late 1990s. • • 7. HOW COLONISTS SURVIVED THE 'STARVING TIME' • Recently discovered bones of a 14-year-old girl show clear signs that she was eaten -- the first solid evidence of cannibalism in 17th-century Jamestown, Va. • • 8. JODI ARIAS MURDER TRIAL HEADED FOR CONCLUSION • Final arguments are to begin in Phoenix today in the case that has made worldwide headlines with lurid tales of sex and a bloody killing of an ex-boyfriend. • • 9. WHY MOUNTAIN DEW AD WAS PULLED • A 60-second that depicted a battered white woman on crutches being urged to identify a suspect out of a lineup of black men was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes. • • 10. KRIS KROSS RAPPER DIES OF SUSPECTED OVERDOSE • Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo who made "Jump" one of the decade's most memorable songs, died in Atlanta at age 34.
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