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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have the challenging task of identifying all of the 10 people killed yesterday when a large FedEx truck slammed into a tour bus carrying high school students and chaperones to a college in Northern California. The dead include two chaperones who were engaged. Most survivors were injured, some with critical burns or broken limbs. Those who made it out said they scrambled through a kicked-out window of the bus, which burst into flames. The drivers are among the dead.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says the "stark truth" is that efforts to restrict voting rights are the worst attack on voting rights since the enactment of the Voting Rights Act nearly five decades ago. And he put the blame on the Republican agenda at state levels. Obama told Al Sharpton's National Action Network that he's not against reasonable attempts to secure the ballot. But he said he opposes "requiring an ID that millions of Americans don't have." According to the Brennan Center for Justice, seven states passed voter restrictions just last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on the former vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, six Crimean separatist leaders and a Crimea-based gas company. The penalties are because of Russia's takeover of Ukraine's strategic Crimean Peninsula. President Barack Obama last month imposed new visa restrictions on Russian and other opponents of Ukraine's government and authorized wider financial penalties against those involved in the military intervention or in stealing state assets.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran's controversial pick for envoy to the United Nations won't be setting foot in the U.S. The Obama administration says that it has informed Iran it will not grant a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of the group responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. While U.S. officials had been trying to persuade Iran to simply withdraw Aboutalebi's name, the announcement amounted to an acknowledgement that those efforts had not been successful.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina inmate already serving a life sentence for ordering the shooting of a man in 2011, has been charged with helping to arrange the kidnapping of a prosecutor's father. Kelvin Melton faces a federal kidnaping charge. Authorities say Melton, who is described as a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang, used a smuggled cellphone to order the abduction. Melton is accused in the Saturday kidnapping of Frank Arthur Janssen of Wake Forest, N.C. Janssen was rescued Wednesday by the FBI at an Atlanta apartment. Janssen's daughter prosecuted Melton in 2012.
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