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BALTIMORE (AP) — The streets of Baltimore have been mostly calm today, but the city remains under a state of emergency following yesterday's rioting. Hundreds of police and National Guardsmen are patrolling the streets, hoping to prevent another outbreak. Maryland's governor is vowing there will be no repeat of the looting, arson and vandalism that erupted in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's mayor is walking back her comments about "thugs" trying to tear down the city. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says Baltimore doesn't have thugs, and what she called her "little anger interpreter" got the best of her yesterday. But Rawlings-Blake says the city has a lot of people that are "acting out" and destroying "the same community they say the care about."
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian army says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women in the Sambisa Forest, but they are not the schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago. Nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok in northeastern Nigeria by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in April 2014. The militants took the schoolgirls in trucks into the forest. Dozens escaped on their own, but 219 remain missing.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is going to run for president as a Democrat. Two people familiar with Sanders' plans say the independent who describes himself as a "democratic socialist" will announce Thursday that he plans to seek the Democratic Party's nomination in 2016. Sanders will become the second major Democrat in the race, joining former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving to sharply curb the Obama administration's recent moves to ease restrictions on travel to Cuba. A provision backed by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida would block new air flights and cruise ship travel to Cuba. It was added to a must-pass transportation spending bill that's coming to the House floor next month.
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