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• 4. HOW 'EL CHAPO' ELUDED CAPTURE FOR 13 YEARS
• The AP learns that Mexico's most powerful drug cartel leader employed the latest high-tech communications gadgetry and sophisticated counterespionage tools.

• 5. GLIMMER OF HOPE IN CHILD OBESITY BATTLE
• U.S. researchers find that obesity among children ages 2 to 5 has decreased -- to 8 percent, from 14 percent a decade ago, a 43 percent drop.

• 6. WHO'S BEING DOGGED BY MISSTEPS
• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may have worsened his series of blunders by stonewalling the media at every turn.

• 7. AN EVEN SMARTER PHONE
• The AP's Anick Jesdanum reports that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S5 will have a fingerprint sensor for security -- and for shopping, thanks to a partnership with PayPal.

• 8. WHAT'S RAISING AVALANCHE FEARS
• New snow in the West threatens to increase this winter's death toll. Already, 17 people have died in avalanches in the U.S., 11 of them since early February.

• 9. KERRY KENNEDY SET TO TESTIFY
• The daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is on trial for alleged drugged-driving after swerving her Lexus into a tractor-trailer.

• 10. CALIFORNIA COUPLE FIND 'POT OF GOLD'
• The husband and wife discover $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins dating from 1847 to 1894 buried in the shadow of an old tree in their backyard.

AP News in Brief
Obama threatens Karzai with full US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by end of year

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope

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