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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the home teams has won. Donald Trump has won the Republican primary in New York. The billionaire has made a major step toward claiming the party's nomination by taking the delegate-rich Empire State. There's been no call on the Democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five senators are calling on President Barack Obama to press Saudi Arabia on human rights issues and raise the cases of two imprisoned advocates when he visits Riyadh this week. The lawmakers cited the cases of a poet who faces a lengthy jail term and lashes on charges of insulting the kingdom's influential religious establishment, and a rights activist who defended him and was sentenced to 15 years in prison on anti-terrorism charges.
MANTA, Ecuador (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has called Ecuador's leader to relay the condolences of the American people over the deadly earthquake in that country. The statement says Obama also talked with the Ecuadorian president about aid the U.S. will provide to help victims of the disaster and support recovery efforts. The U.S. earlier today said it was sending disaster experts and $100,000 in supplies.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The fire chief in a suburb of the nation's capital says a paramedic-firefighter missing for nearly a week is a high-achiever who is well-liked by her colleagues. The Fairfax County fire chief says Nicole Mittendorff always put others first, and he's asking anyone who may have information on her whereabouts to come forward. Searchers have been scouring a steep and rugged section of Shenandoah National Park in search of the 31-year-old. Her car was found in the area on Saturday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top FBI official tells Congress that agency is facing an increasing struggle to access readable information and evidence from digital devices because of default encryption. Amy Hess says that of the cell phones the FBI seized in the last six months as part of investigations, officials encountered passwords about 30 percent of the time and had "no capability" to access information "around 13 percent of that time." The Senate is considering a bill that would effectively prohibit unbreakable encryption.
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