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VATICAN CITY (AP) — He's off the campaign trail for the day -- but he's staying on message. Bernie Sanders flew to Rome overnight, and used a high-profile gathering at the Vatican today to echo one of the central platforms of his campaign. He said the world has an economy that is "operated for the top 1 percent," who he says "get richer and richer as the working class, the young and the poor fall further and further behind."
MASHIKI, Japan (AP) — A tsunami advisory has been lifted in southern Japan, which has seen its second powerful earthquake in a little more than a day. It's not yet clear whether the latest quake added to the death toll from the one that left nine people dead and hundreds injured. Video on Japanese TV shows one resident on a stretcher after apparently being rescued from under a collapsed house.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's governor has signed into law a ban on a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure, setting the state up for a possible legal challenge. Gov. Phil Bryant signed the law that outlaws a procedure called "dilation and evacuation" unless it is necessary to prevent a woman's irreversible physical impairment. The bill's supporters describe the procedure as dismemberment and say it's unnecessarily cruel. The owner of the state's only abortion clinic says the state is inviting an expensive lawsuit. State courts have blocked similar laws in Kansas and Oklahoma.
SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — The step-daughter of a 76-year-old Washington state man who a prosecutor says was wrongly convicted in 2012 of killing an Illinois schoolgirl six decades ago says he'll be released within hours. Janey O'Connor attended a hearing this morning at which a judge vacated the conviction of Jack McCullough and ordered him to be freed. A prosecutor concluded this year that McCullough couldn't have killed the girl.
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says it will seal dozens of blue mail collection boxes along the Boston Marathon route in the interest of safety and security. The Postal Service made the announcement today amid the remembrances of the third anniversary of the marathon bombings. The boxes will be sealed at the time of the last mail collection tomorrow and reopened Tuesday. The marathon is Monday.
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