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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Officials now say at least three people died and 18 were wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the international airport in Afghanistan's capital today. Officials also say the attack that appears to have targeted vehicles of the European Union police training mission, officials said. An Interior Ministry spokesman says two Afghan women who appeared to be passersby are among the dead.
JERUSALEM (AP) — An icon of Israel's settler movement, which began after the 1967 war, has died. Moshe Levinger who helped establish a settlement in the heart of the biblical West Bank city of Hebron, was 80. Levinger's funeral is set for today outside that city's holiest site, known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Forecasters say there's a diminished threat of tornadoes today in the nation's midsection, but storms with heavy rain and hail are still possible. Storms including some tornadoes churned through the area yesterday, causing property damage, though no injuries have been reported. Oklahoma, parts of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota were affected.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Automatic train control is coming to Amtrak rails in Philadelphia, on a curve where a train derailed, killing eight people. Federal officials have ordered the system's installation on the northbound rails and Amtrak says it will comply with the emergency directive. The southbound rails already have the system, which can automatically slow down a speeding train.
BALTIMORE (AP) — American Pharoah is two for two after winning the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown. But after winning both the Kentucky derby and the Preakness, the toughest test could still be ahead -- the Belmont in June.
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