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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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