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• 8. HOW SCIENTISTS HOPE TO IMPROVE HURRICANE FORECASTING
• Researchers plan to collect data from drones dispatched to the key spot where the roiling ocean meets the fury of storm winds.
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• 9. AARON HERNANDEZ FACES DOUBLE MURDER CHARGES
• The former Patriots tight end, already charged in a 2013 killing, will be arraigned for allegedly gunning down two men in 2012.
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• 10. SHE IS JEOPARDY'S TOP WOMAN CHAMP, EARNING $372,700 IN 17 CONSECUTIVE WINS
• Who is Chicago suburbanite Julia Collins?
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AP News in Brief
Lebanese troops beat Syrian voters near Beirut embassy as expats vote in presidential election
• BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanese troops moved to subdue a crowd of frenzied Syrian voters who tried to storm their embassy in Beirut to vote for President Bashar Assad as expat balloting started in Syria's presidential election.
• The soldiers were beating up the Syrians some 50 meters (yards) from the embassy building, using batons and sticks in an effort to get the crowd under control on Wednesday.
• Thousands of Assad supporters had crowded the hilltop embassy and snarled traffic outside. Clashes broke out when the Syrians started clashing with the Lebanese soldiers in an effort to get into the embassy.
• The Syrian opposition and its Western allies have denounced the June 3 election as a sham designed to lend Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy.
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AP sources: Obama may soon OK train-and-equip mission for some moderate Syrian rebels
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an open move that would significantly boost U.S. support to Syrian rebels seeking military help in their quest to oust President Bashar As (Continued on page 26)
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