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BALTIMORE (AP) — Protesters are demonstrating outside the downtown Baltimore courthouse where the first hearing is taking place this morning in the case of six city police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray. They are carrying signs with slogans including, "Stop racism now" -- and they are chanting for the officers to be sent to jail. One demonstrator said he's concerned the charges could be dropped. Freddie Gray was a black man who died April 19, a week after suffering a critical spinal injury in custody. His death led to protests and a riot in Baltimore.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have opened higher, as global stock markets recover from yesterday's fall. The Dow industrials gained more than 200 points in the first two minutes of trading. The major stock indexes lost about 3 percent yesterday, amid continued concerns about China's economy. Today, stocks in Shanghai opened more than four percent lower, but finished about even -- leading some analysts to suspect that the Chinese government was intervening to boost share prices heading into a two-day holiday.

BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say a man in custody who's described by authorities as the main suspect in last month's deadly bombing in Bangkok has acknowledged being in the area of the blast but denied any involvement. The man was arrested yesterday. His name and his nationality haven't been released. The bombing killed 20 people and wounded more than 120.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is now charged with murder in the death of his cellmate at a Central California prison. Officials determined Damion Soward was strangled in April. Phillips was once one of the nation's top college football players at Nebraska. He played for the St. Louis Rams, Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers during a three-year NFL career. He's already serving a sentence of more than 31 years, after being convicted of choking his girlfriend and later of driving his car into three teens after a pickup football game.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — North America's tallest mountain just got a shorter name. Now it has a shorter elevation. Denali, the Alaska mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley, now measures 20,310 at its highest point. That's according to the new official elevation from the U.S. Geological Survey. It's ten feet less than the old measurement -- which officials say was taken using 1950s technology. The change comes just days after the Obama administration announced its decision to bestow the mountain's traditional Alaska Native name on the eve of president's visit to Alaska this week.

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