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President Obama has begun interviewing candidates to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is in India. The visit is part of a broader U.S. strategy to strengthen alliances in Asia and the Pacific.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona, who championed environmental protection during his 12 terms in Congress, died Thursday of complications from cancer treatments, his office said.

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter's Square on Palm Sunday, in yet another reassuring public sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia.

The birth of tortoises native to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos increases their U.S. population from 44 to 48. A few thousand remain globally, according to estimates by experts.

A recently appointed interim U.S. attorney said he wants to sue companies to make them develop content-monitoring algorithms.

A recreational boat crashed into a ferry transporting 45 people on the final day of a sand-sculpting festival in Florida, killing one person and injuring at least 10 others, officials said.

Another major primary upset in a Democratic primary in Massachusetts on Tuesday adds to evidence that younger, diverse candidates are energizing Democratic voters over more established politicians.

After weeks in which a partial mask ban hardly came up, officials said Hochul this week proposed narrowing her demand.

The university's president convened two panels to study campus antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias last year. Harvard said it will begin implementing at least some of the reports' recommendations.