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10 Things to Know for Today The Associated Press
• • Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: • • 1. SUPREME COURT DEALS BLOW TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION • By a 6-2 majority, the court declares that state voters can outlaw using race as a factor in college admissions. • • 2. PRO-RUSSIAN GUNMEN HOLD AMERICAN JOURNALIST HOSTAGE • Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky was kidnapped in Ukraine's eastern city of Slovyansk. • • 3. SOUTH KOREAN CAPTAIN'S IMAGE AT ODDS WITH HANDLING OF DISASTER • One colleague calls ferry Capt. Lee Joon-seok the nicest person on board. How did the man with a sterling reputation and glittering gold epaulets abandon a sinking ship full of teenagers? • • 4. CAIRO BOMB KILLS SENIOR SECURITY OFFICER • A brigadier general dies in the latest attack against Egypt's police force. • • 5. WHERE OBAMA SEEKS TO LEVEL PLAYING FIELD • The president's Asian tour aims to reassure partners about U.S. commitment to region, while balancing power of a more assertive China. • • 6. STOWAWAY WENT UNDETECTED FOR HOURS AT AIRPORT • Surveillance video shows teen who flew to Hawaii in wheel well of jetliner was on San Jose airfield seven hours before flight departed. • • 7. MICHIGAN MAN FOURTH IN US TO GET 'BIONIC EYE' • After years of living with Robert Pontz's blindness, a retinal prosthesis helps him see, prompting his wife to say something she never thought she'd say. •
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