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• The underwater vehicle looking for debris from the Malaysia Airlines jet had to be hauled back to the surface because the search area is too deep.
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• 7. WHERE TRAILERS WERE TOPPLED
• A storm barreled through Mississippi Gulf Coast communities, damaging or destroying up to 30 RVs at one campground, downing trees and power lines and cutting electricity in some areas.
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• 8. 'HOW 'BOUT THEM DUTCHMEN!?'
• The hockey team from tiny Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., wins the "Frozen Four" finals, toppling the heavyweights for the national title.
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• 9. HOW A SNACK MIGHT PREVENT DOMESTIC STRIFE
• Low blood sugar can make spouses irritable, researchers say, so a candy bar could stave off fights between husbands and wives.
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• 10. WHO'S DIVING BACK INTO THE POOL
• Michael Phelps, the 22-time Olympic medalist, is coming out of retirement to focus on swimming at a fifth Summer Games in 2016.
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AP News in Brief
Amid Russian provocations, Obama faces test of willingness to follow through on tough warnings
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the White House asserting that Russia is stoking instability in eastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama is once again faced with the complicated reality of following through on his tough warnings against overseas provocations.
• Obama has vowed repeatedly to enact biting sanctions against Russia's vital economic sectors if the Kremlin tries to replicate its actions in Crimea, the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine, elsewhere in the former Soviet republic. Despite those warnings, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be testing Obama's limits, instigating protests in eastern Ukraine, the White House says, and massing tens of thousands of troops on the border, but so far stopping short of a full-scale military incursion.
• "They have been willing to do things to provoke the situation that no one anticipated," Matthew Rojansky, a Russia analyst at the Wilson Center, said of Russia. (Continued on page 23)
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