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prove a costly embarrassment to the White House.

8. SUNSHINE REVEALS SORROWS IN WASHINGTON MUDSLIDE
Floodwaters at the site are receding, allowing crews to expand their search_and find more human remains.

9. POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL TED CRUZ TO ADDRESS YOUNG EVANGELICALS
The Texas senator and tea party favorite is to speak before the student body of Liberty University, founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.

10. NOWHERE TO RUN? TRY NORTH KOREA
Tourism companies say they are being inundated with requests to sign up for the April 13 Pyongyang marathon.


Today in History
The Associated Press


• Today is Wednesday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2014. There are 273 days left in the year.

• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 2, 1914, British actor Sir Alec Guinness, whose roles in a 66-year career ranged from Hamlet to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars," was born in London.

• On this date:
• In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition landed in present-day Florida. (Some historians say the landing actually occurred the next day, on April 3.)
• In 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.S. Mint.
• In 1863, during the Civil War, the Richmond Bread Riot erupted in the Confederate capital as a mob outraged over food shortages and rising prices attacked and looted stores.
• In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Ger

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