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Belgian authorities hunt Brussels bombing suspect
BRUSSELS (AP) - Belgian authorities searched Wednesday for a man pictured at the Brussels airport with two apparent suicide bombers, amid growing suggestions that the bombings of the Brussels airport and subway were the work of the same Islamic State cell that attacked Paris last year. Several people who may be linked to the Brussels attacks were still on the loose and the country's threat alert remained at its highest level, meaning there was danger of an imminent attack, said Paul Van Tigchelt, head of Belgium's terrorism threat body. The attacks killed 34 people, including three suicide bombers, and injured 270 others, authorities said.


The Latest: Police find TATP explosives in home in Brussels
Belgium's chief prosecutor says investigators have found 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of TATP explosives at the house which the suspects in the Brussels attacks left from for the airport. Federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw says a cab driver who drove the three suspects to the airport led authorities to the house in Brussels. He says a special squad found the explosives inside the house, along with other chemicals that are commonly used to make bombs.Explosions on Tuesday at the Brussels airport and a city subway center killed 34 people, including three suicide bombers, and wounded over 270 people.


American Muslims decry Cruz community surveillance comments
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Some American Muslims feel they are once again on the defensive following presidential candidate Ted Cruz's suggestion that Muslim-dominated neighborhoods should be subject to increased surveillance in the wake of the deadly attacks in Brussels claimed by the Islamic State militant group. "We're targeted even if it's not our fault," said Omar Ghanim, 23, eating Lebanese pizza Tuesday at a suburban strip mall in Orange County's Little Arabia neighborhood, just miles from Disneyland in California. Ghanim said Islamic State doesn't represent his faith. "They don't follow the Islamic rules or anything Islam," he said. "We're a peaceful people - we're not violent." Cruz said Tuesday that law enforcement should be empowered to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized." Echoing earlier statements from rival Donald Trump, Cruz also said the U.S.


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Cruz embraces Bush's endorsement, says he can defeat Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ted Cruz embraced Jeb Bush's endorsement on Wednesday and claimed he could build a broad coalition capable of beating Hillary Clinton in the fall - if only he can climb past the surging Republican presidential front-runner, Donald Trump. Clinton won in Arizona, maintaining a lopsided advantage over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race despite his convincing wins in Utah and Idaho on Tuesday night. Trump and Cruz split the previous night's two GOP contests, the billionaire taking Arizona and the Texas senator winning Utah. Bush, the former Florida governor once considered a mainstream Republican powerhouse, dropped out of the contest in February after weak showings in early primaries.


Obama health law birth control plan returns to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is taking up a challenge from faith-based groups that object to an Obama administration effort to ensure their employees and students can get cost-free birth control. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday on the sixth anniversary of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a case at the intersection of the law, religion and birth control. The 2010 law is making its fourth Supreme Court appearance in five years. The issue this time is the arrangement the administration devised to make sure that religiously oriented colleges, charities and advocacy groups do not have to pay for or arrange the provision of contraceptives to which they object, while ensuring that women covered under their health plans still can obtain birth control.


NYC killing, Florida alibi: Man may go free after 20 years
NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Rosario thought he'd quickly clear himself of suspicion in a New York City killing when he gave police the names of 13 people who could vouch he was in Florida when the shooting happened. Instead, he was arrested, found guilty and imprisoned for 20 years so far. He lost multiple appeals. But prosecutors plan to ask a judge Wednesday to overturn Rosario's murder conviction and free him as they reinvestigate his 1996 case. His attorneys call it an illustration of unreliable eyewitness testimony, bungled defense and the difficulty of fighting a guilty verdict. "It really is a case study in a wrongful conviction," said one of his lawyers, Glenn Garber of the Exoneration Initiative.


Heroin overdose antidote offers hope for vulnerable inmates
DENVER (AP) - When he was a teenager, Lee Gonzales could not save his uncle from a heroin overdose. Now he worries that the same drug could kill him after he gets out of jail. As Gonzales remembers, he had rousted his uncle from previous heroin stupors by propping him up and splashing water on his face. But there was no one around to help that day. And there was nothing available like the bright orange prescription bottle the 32-year-old heroin addict held in his hand on a recent morning. "This is enough medicine to save somebody, huh?" Gonzales said, fiddling with the nasal inhaler as a doctor sat with him in a cinderblock interview room in Denver's downtown jail.


Space station cargo launches by light of nearly full moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fresh supplies shipped out late Tuesday for the International Space Station, where the shelves finally are getting full after a string of failed deliveries. Launching beneath the light of a nearly full moon, the unmanned Atlas V rocket provided late-night sparkle as it headed north with its precious cargo and paralleled the East Coast on its way to orbit. Orbital ATK's Cygnus capsule holds nearly 8,000 pounds of food, equipment and scientific research for NASA, including a commercial-quality 3-D printer anyone can rent and experimental robotic grippers modeled after the thousands of sticky hairs on geckos' feet.


Want to be a zombie? Join 'The Walking Dead' immersive show
SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) - When the lights come on, the scene in front of you isn't pretty: There's a gagged woman handcuffed to a wall, a TV on at full volume and a guy lying on a couch with a gaping belly wound. Such is the troubling landscape that greets audience members at the beginning of the touring immersive show recreating the chilling world of AMC's "The Walking Dead," in which the world has been plagued by a zombie apocalypse. The horror drama series is one of the most popular shows on television. Visitors make their way through the 10,000-square-foot attraction - six sets built into tractor trailers, plus various tents - as either a postapocalyptic survivor or, after a quick makeup session, an undead zombie.


Elephant dung at Prague Zoo morphs into a new form: paper
PRAGUE (AP) - At first, their elephant dung was sold to gardeners as fertilizer. Now Prague Zoo has come up with a new use for it: making paper. The zoo has joined forces with the country's famed hand paper mill in Velke Losiny to process the manure to be used in traditional paper-making techniques. Petr Foucek, a director from Velke Losiny, says the 420-year-old mill has made paper from all sorts of materials but elephant dung "is something new for us." Visitors will be able to make their own paper at a new zoo facility starting Friday. The announcement comes almost five years after the zoo began selling elephant dung in 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) containers.



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