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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police say that 15 bodies including six children have been found after a raid in east Sri Lanka on militants linked to the Easter bombings. A police spokesman gave the figures early Saturday after a gunfight between soldiers and the suspected militants near Sammanthurai. The gunbattle began Friday night after police tipped off soldiers to a suspected safe house, where authorities say the militants set off three explosions and opened fire. At least three others were wounded in the attack.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A widening dispute within the National Rifle Association erupted over the role of the man who has long been the public face of the gun-rights group Wayne LaPierre said opponents want him to resign or face "damaging" information being disclosed to the NRA's board.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The attorney for a California man charged with eight counts of attempted murder says his client did not deliberately drive into a group of pedestrians. Chuck Smith says the crash that hurt eight people was the act of a mental disorder or defect. Isaiah Joel Peoples, who is an Iraq War veteran, did not enter a plea Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Police say he targeted people he thought were Muslim.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California State University, Los Angeles, says 656 students and staffers possibly exposed to measles are under quarantine. The number is up sharply Friday from the initial report of 198 employees and students told to stay at home earlier in the week. Health officials say the number of confirmed cases of Los Angeles County residents is still at five. The number of people under a similar quarantine at University of California, Los Angeles, has dropped sharply to fewer than 50.
UNDATED (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is reporting he raised $6.3 million in the first day of his campaign, the most of any of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in the first 24 hours after their announcements. In a news release Friday, Biden's campaign says he raised the money from nearly 97,000 individuals across all 50 states. Biden edged former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke's first-day total of $6.1 million and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' sum of slightly less than $6 million.
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