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Three people connected to the couple responsible for the San Bernardino terror attack were arrested Thursday in an alleged marriage-fraud scheme involving a pair of Russian sisters. The attackers in a deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015, are pictured. Syed Farook, left, is seen in a photo released by the California DMV, and Tashfeen Malik, right, is seen in a photo released by the FBI. The accused include Syed Raheel Farook. His brother and sister-in-law, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, died in a shootout with police after killing 14 people and wounding 22 others on Dec. 2. Also arrested in the marriage-fraud case were Syed Raheel Farook's wife, Tatiana, and her sister, Mariya Chernykh. Prosecutors say Mariya's marriage to Enrique Marquez Jr., the only person charged in the shootings, was a sham designed to enable her to obtain legal status in the U.S. after overstaying a visitor visa in 2009. Marquez confessed to the scheme whe...

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed that the country will prevent war between North and South Korea, in an address to several Asian foreign ministers on Thursday. Chinese President, Xi Jinping delivers his speech at the fifth regular foreign ministers' meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Beijing on April 28, 2016. Speaking at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, Xi added that an armed, potentially nuclear conflict in the Korean peninsula would be detrimental to all parties involved, Reuters reports. “As a close neighbor of the peninsula, we will absolutely not permit war or chaos on the peninsula,” he said. “This situation would not benefit anyone.” Although China is North Korea’s long-time ally, it has condemned the country’s recent nuclear and missile tests that have prompted an escalation of tensions in the region. Source : Time

Donald Trump is poised to extend his lead in the Republican presidential race in a string of East Coast primaries on Tuesday, but a complicated contest in Pennsylvania, the day's biggest prize, will test his recently reorganized campaign. The state features the sort of complex rules that Trump has repeatedly slammed for being "rigged" and that forced him this month to reshuffle his team to better compete with main rival Ted Cruz for the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination for the Nov. 8 election. "It's as crooked almost as Hillary Clinton," Trump said on Monday at a campaign event in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in an attack on both the Republican primary rules and the Democratic presidential front-runner. Just 17 of the 71 Republican delegates up for grabs in Pennsylvania on Tuesday are allocated to the candidate who wins its primary. The rest - people who are elected directly by voters - are free agents, able to support anyone they c...

Lady Gaga believes that even after his death, Prince will continue to impact the music industry. Lady Gaga and Prince (inset) Paying tribute to the late musician, who died at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota on Thursday, Gaga, 30, wrote on Instagram that she feels "that when we die our souls hover for at least a moment if not longer before they either rest or are recycled into the consciousness of an already living being or maybe a newborn baby." She continued, "Isn't it amazing Prince shared his soul with us so deeply before his death, and now after we will be replenished endlessly by both his legacy and all that he still has to give from the beyond." How Prince Changed the Game For Other Artists   Posting an image of the "Purple Rain" singer, Gaga concluded, "Thank you for sharing your life with us Prince. Giving up your anonymity because you felt compelled to share your gift. We learned so much. You just found God...

Joanie “Chyna” Laurer was going up to appear in more adult films with Vivid Entertainment before her death this week at age 46. Former WWE superstar Chyna dead at age 45 After ending her WWE career in 2001, the former pro wrestler appeared in four porn films with the production company, including “Backdoor to Chyna” and “She Hulk XXX.” “We were scheduled to meet this week to discuss [future films],” Vivid founder Steve Hirsch told Page Six. “She was so popular and we wanted to work with her again.” On Wednesday, a friend found Chyna — who had struggled with drug use in the past — unresponsive in her Redondo Beach, Calif., apartment, and investigators initially called her death a “possible overdose.” “Chyna was truly one of a kind,” continued Hirsch. “I never heard her say a bad word about anyone and it was amazing to watch her interact with her fans. She thrived on it and loved every minute — and they loved her back. We were looking forward to working with her in t...

Bernie Sanders has been campaigning in Maryland, in Baltimore, and some of his remarks indicate that he doesn’t really understand what poverty is.   He’s getting very mixed up indeed between relative poverty and absolute poverty. Now, it is indeed true that American liberals and progressives get uptight about relative poverty, what we might also call inequality.  But it is still true that they are very different concepts, these relative and absolute poverties. Absolute poverty is simply not having a roof over your head, a shirt on your back or even a cheap meal of anything in your stomach. The relative poverty in Baltimore that Bernie is talking about is just not anything like this at all. It’s having less than others in the society around you, yes, but that is indeed inequality, not absolute poverty. Of course, some of what Sanders is saying is just standard stump politics: “It’s important to show the world that in the United States of America, in Freddie ...

North Korea said Sunday that they have fired a ballistic missile from a submarine and get the global's concern. A South Korean man watches a TV news program showing images published Sunday in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile that the North claimed to have launched from underwater, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 24, 2016. North Korea said Sunday that it successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine and warned of its growing ability to cut down its enemies with a "dagger of destruction." South Korea couldn't immediately confirm the claim of success in what marks Pyongyang's latest effort to expand its military might in face of pressure by its neighbors and Washington. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (The Associated Press) They warned of missile's growing ability to cut down ...

Cletus Abate was upset knowing that the Pennsylvania legislature is considering a bill that would extend protections to transgender people, including allowing them to use the bathrooms they choose. Cletus Abate said the issue of transgender people in bathrooms will lead her to vote for Ted Cruz rather than Donald Trump, whom she supported for months, in Pennsylvania's primary on Tuesday. (Katie Zezima/The Washington Post) So she took a petition and packets outlining what opponents see as threats from the legislation to a Ted Cruz rally, handing them out to anyone who would listen, including the candidate himself. “I’m here because Donald Trump came out on the news and said he doesn’t have a problem with transgender bathrooms,” Abate said. Transgender rights have become an unlikely and heated issue in the presidential campaign after North Carolina enacted a law that, among other things, mandated that people use the restroom that corresponds to the gender on their...

That morning, people gathered in the tree-lined cemetery here to bid farewell to a charismatic rebel and outspoken enemy of the Islamic State. The grave of Zaher al-Shurqat, a Syrian rebel who was assassinated by an apparent Islamic State militant in southern Turkey. (Hugh Naylor /The Washington Post) The mourners wept as they hoisted his coffin, draped in the three-star flag of Syria’s opposition. They proudly recalled his valor in battles against government forces and his defiance of the religious extremists who have tried to overtake their rebellion. But the way that Zaher al-Shurqat’s life ended filled those at his funeral with dread. Anas al-Shurqat receives guests at the funeral of his twin brother, Zaher al-Shurqat, in Nizip, Turkey. (Hugh Naylor /The Washington Post) An apparent Islamic State militant followed the 36-year-old into an alley in the Turkish city of Gaziantep and fired a round into his head. He was the fourth prominent Syrian critic of the ...

The presidential battle between the Democratic and Republican turns to a series of Northeastern states that have typically been irrelevant in past cycles thanks their fairly late spot in the nomination process. Voters in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island will head to the polls Tuesday for the "Acela primary," teeing up fights for one of the biggest batches of delegates up for grabs on both sides. The opportunity provides front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton a chance to either pull away from their respective packs or remain mired in the grueling nominating fight. 'Acela primary' Both Clinton and Trump candidates looked strong heading into Pennsylvania's contest, according to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. Trump leads the Republican field among likely Republican voters with 45% support compared to Ted Cruz's 27% and John Kasich's 24%. And Clinton is beating Bernie Sanders 55%-40% among l...

U.S. officials confirmed Sunday that President Obama will announce the addition of 250 Special Operations troops to the American advisory force in Syria, as the administration’s latest move seeking to intensify pressure on the Islamic State. President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk to an arrival ceremony at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) A senior administration official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss measures that have not yet been announced, said that Obama will make his decision public on Monday, during remarks at a technology fair in Germany. “The president has authorized a series of steps to increase support for our partners in the region, including Iraqi security forces as well as local Syrian forces who are taking the fight to ISIL,” the official said. ISIL is another name for the Islamic State, the militant group that controls a wide swath of both countries. The extra forces,...

Investigators found three marijuana "grow operations" at rural residences of family massacre where eight were killed in southern Ohio, state Attorney General Mike DeWine said Sunday at a news conference. Authorities wouldn't say publicly whether they thought the killings were drug related, but an official with knowledge of the operation told CNN's Nick Valencia: "This operation was not for personal use; it was for something much bigger than that. It was a very sophisticated operation." The cold-blooded nature of the killings has rattled Piketon, a town of about 2,000 people 90 miles east of Cincinnati. The victims, aged 16 to 44, were methodically shot in the head while sleeping at four residences, including a mother with a 4-day-old infant lying beside her, authorities said. The newborn, along with a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, survived. The official said the killings happened before dawn. "This was a preplanned execution of eigh...

Madi Barney, a Brigham Young University sophomore, claims she is being punished by her own school — for reporting to cops that she had been raped. Madi Barney for her BYU: stop punishing victims of sexual assault Care2 petition. Madi Byner / ThePetitionSite.com The 20-years-old student, who has gone public with her allegations against the conservative Mormon-run school, told the Salt Lake Tribune that BYU is now blocking her from registering for classes and she has filed a sexual discrimination complaint with the feds. A spokeswoman for the Provo, Utah-based university insisted that was not the case. "While I cannot talk about an individual case, I can assure you that we would never put a hold on a student's registration because she reported her rape to the police," BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins told NBC News. There was no immediate confirmation that Barney filed the complaint on Monday from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Righ...

Donald Trump dominated the vote Tuesday among groups where he has been strong in previous contests while staying very competitive even among voters that have given him trouble in the past, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. NBC News projected Trump the winner shortly after polls closed at 9 p.m. ET. White voters without a college education — who accounted for nearly half of the New York GOP electorate —were at the heart of Trump's win. About two-thirds of these voters (64 percent) went for Trump, splitting the rest of their support between rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich. But Trump prevailed easily among college-educated whites, too: He won a majority of their votes (53 percent), followed by Kasich and then Cruz. Trump, who has staked out very conservative ground with positions on immigration, terrorism and other hot-button issues, enjoyed a landslide win among New Yorkers identifying as "very" or "somewhat" conservative. Almost two-thirds (64 perce...

Earthquake-stricken Ecuador faced more dead bodies than survivors as rescue efforts moved into a third day on Tuesday and the death toll climbed to over 500. Officials also began evaluating the monumental task of rebuilding from Saturday's magnitude-7.8 quake — one of the Latin American nation's most devastating in decades — and said the number of dead rose to 507 with about 2,560 people injured. The majority of the dead have been identified and returned to loved ones, the Attorney General's Office said. At least 11 foreigners, including one American, were among those killed. President Rafael Correa, meanwhile, said it could cost as much as $3 billion to rebuild — about 3 percent of Ecuador's gross domestic product. "It's going to be a long battle," he told reporters Tuesday. On Monday, teams fanned out across the country's Pacific coastline to look for the dozens of people still missing. Praying for miracles, desperate fa...