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• Honolulu police officers have urged lawmakers to keep an exemption that allows undercover officers to have sex with prostitutes during investigations.
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• 8. VIRULENTLY ANTI-GAY PASTOR LEAVES COMPLEX LEGACY
• Some believe that the Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps, who died Wednesday, actually helped the cause of gay rights by serving as such a provocative symbol of intolerance.
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• 9. HOW GOOGLE IS GUARDING AGAINST SPYING
• The company has improved the encryption technology for its flagship email service -- making it harder for the NSA to intercept messages.
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• 10. QUICK UPSETS BLEMISH NCAA BRACKETS
• After the tournament's first afternoon, about 95 percent of people who filled out brackets had missed at least one game.
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AP News in Brief
Putin says no need for further Russian retaliation to US sanctions
• MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin says there is no need for Russia to further retaliate against U.S. sanctions.
• Putin spoke after President Barack Obama ordered a second round of sanctions targeting about two dozen members of Putin's inner circle and a major bank supporting them. Moscow made its first retaliatory shot by banning nine U.S. officials and lawmakers from entering Russia.
• Putin said in televised remarks at Friday's session of the presidential Security Council that he sees no immediate need for further Russian retaliation and said sardonically that he would open an account in the Russian bank targeted by the latest U.S. sanctions.
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Acting Australian prime minister says nothing of significance spotted in plane search so far
• KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Search planes flying deep into the southern (Continued on page 28)
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