Stocks fall...Did North Korea conduct a nuclear test?...Another House vote against Obamacare

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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have finished sharply lower, led by a decline in energy stocks as the price of oil plunged to its lowest level since 2008. Crude closed below $34 a barrel today after more signs emerged that China's huge economy was slowing down. The Dow fell 252 points. The S&P lost 26 points to finish at its lowest level since early October. The Nasdaq lost 55 points.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — International experts aren't fully convinced that North Korea carried out a nuclear test today. The head of the U.N. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization says its monitors are looking for proof that North Korea carried out the test. And they want to confirm whether it was a hydrogen bomb, as the North claims. The U.N. official says it could take weeks to detect radioisotopes released from an underground test.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans say they are forcing President Barack Obama to face up to what they say are the failures of his health care law, by voting today to repeal it. It's the 62nd such vote by the House -- but this time, the measure will actually reach the president's desk, where it will be vetoed. Democrats say it's pointless political theater.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge has ruled that a police officer facing charges stemming from the death of Freddie Gray must testify against a fellow officer at an upcoming trial. The judge ruled today that William Porter, whose trial ended in a mistrial last month, can be compelled to take the stand in the trial of van driver Caesar Goodson. Goodson is facing the most serious charge of the six officers charged in the case. Porter had earlier said he plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if he's called to the stand. Now, if he does so, he can be held in contempt.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's law department is examining more than three dozen open cases that were being handled by a former top city attorney. That attorney resigned this week after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting. A department spokesman says Jordan Marsh was either the supervisor or the lead attorney in 37 police misconduct cases at the time the judge issued his ruling.