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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Security forces in the capital of Bangladesh have ended a terrorist siege at a restaurant in Dhaka (DAH'-kah) that lasted 10 hours. Two big explosions were heard Saturday morning in the restaurant, where heavily-armed extremists were holding about 35 people hostage. A police official says five bodies were seen. An official in Japan says 12 people were rescued. In the initial gunbattle on Friday night, two police officers were killed and about two dozen people were wounded, some gravely. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says that a U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed two senior Islamic State commanders last Saturday in northern Iraq, including a fighter considered to be the group's deputy minister of war. Pentagon spokesman says the strike killed Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari and a lower level commander. Al-Bajari was a former member of al-Qaida who oversaw the Islamic State's fight in June 2014 to capture the northern city of Mosul.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee sheriff is calling it "an egregious act of evil" that shocks him to his core. Authorities in suburban Memphis say four young children were stabbed to death in an apartment in an upscale, gated community. The children have been called "babies" by one official. Their mother has been taken into custody.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers have tweaked a law limiting protections for LGBT people but largely left it intact. Voting Friday night, the General Assembly restored workers' rights to use state law to sue over employment discrimination. But the change won't enhance workplace protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. And there was no change to a requirement that transgender people must use restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates in many public buildings.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One or more very lucky persons could have just become fabulously wealthy. The winning numbers in Friday night's estimated $415 million Mega Millions lottery drawing are 20-41-42- 45-49, with a Mega Ball of 14. The prize had been swelling because no one had won the jackpot since March 8. The odds of picking the correct numbers are one in 259 million a1359
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