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• California lawmakers approve hiking minimum wage to $15
• Veteran Miami officer named police chief in Ferguson
• Donald Trump has surprise sitdown with RNC
• Gunman dead, state trooper in grave condition from shooting at Richmond, Va., bus station
• Bill Clinton says Bernie Sanders has a ‘right to stay in’ the Democratic primary
• Brussels airport ready to reopen, Abdeslam set to cooperate
• India overpass collapse kills 14; scores feared trapped
• 7 hurt, damage reported after tornado touchdowns in Oklahoma
• Correction: Killings by Police-Minneapolis story
• Obama finds common cause on NKorea with China and allies

California lawmakers approve hiking minimum wage to $15 Posted: 31 Mar 2016 03:04 PM PDT A plan to raise California's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 passed both houses of the state legislature on Thursday, putting the state on track to become the first in the nation to commit to such a large pay hike for the working poor. The measure, incorporating a deal Governor Jerry Brown reached with labor leaders and progressive Democrats in the Legislature, was approved in the state Senate Thursday afternoon after winning approval earlier in the day in the Assembly, and now goes to Brown for his signature. "If you work full time, your family shouldn't live in poverty," Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Southern California Democrat, said in support of the bill to raise the state's minimum wage from its current level of $10 per hour.

Veteran Miami officer named police chief in Ferguson Posted: 31 Mar 2016 03:19 PM PDT FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A veteran Miami police officer with two decades of experience dealing with the media and community leaders will take over as police chief in Ferguson, hoping to help the St. Louis suburb heal as it rebounds after the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.

Donald Trump has surprise sitdown with RNC Posted: 31 Mar 2016 11:52 AM PDT Donald Trump visited the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington D.C. on Thursday afternoon. Both Trump campaign and the RNC did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Yahoo News about the meeting. Shortly after Trump launched his presidential campaign in June with a series of controversial comments about Mexican immigrants, Priebus reportedly urged Trump to "tone it down" in a phone call.

Gunman dead, state trooper in grave condition from shooting at Richmond, Va., bus station Posted: 31 Mar 2016 01:32 PM PDT Two people, including a state trooper and suspected gunman, are dead following a shooting at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Va., on Thursday.

Bill Clinton says Bernie Sanders has a ‘right to stay in’ the Democratic primary Posted: 31 Mar 2016 12:08 PM PDT Some critics argue Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., should bow out of the Democratic presidential primary as his chance of defeating Hillary Clinton becomes increasingly slim. However, Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, does not think Sanders needs to give up.

Brussels airport ready to reopen, Abdeslam set to cooperate Posted: 31 Mar 2016 08:26 AM PDT Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam wants to cooperate with French authorities once he is extradited from Belgium, his lawyer said Thursday, as Belgian police carried out a raid linked to a foiled French terror plot. Soldiers and police could be seen taking part in the operation near a busy motorway in Courtrai in northwestern Belgium, the latest in a series of raids since the Paris and Brussels terror attacks exposed a tangled web of cross-border jihadist cells. The sole surviving suspect of the November 13 Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed, Salah Abdeslam was arrested in Brussels on March 18 after four months on the run.

India overpass collapse kills 14; scores feared trapped Posted: 31 Mar 2016 04:29 AM PDT By Supriyo Hazra KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An overpass under construction in the bustling Indian city of Kolkata collapsed on Thursday on to vehicles and street vendors below, killing at least 14 people with more than 100 people feared trapped. "The concrete had been laid last night at this part of the bridge," resident Ramesh Kejriwal told Reuters. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose center-left party is seeking re-election in the state of West Bengal next month, rushed to the scene.

7 hurt, damage reported after tornado touchdowns in Oklahoma Posted: 30 Mar 2016 10:54 PM PDT TULSA, Okla. (AP) — At least seven people were injured and authorities were evaluating damage that included a destroyed home after severe storms spawned multiple tornado touchdowns in northeastern Oklahoma on Wednesday night, authorities said.

Correction: Killings by Police-Minneapolis story Posted: 31 Mar 2016 01:35 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In a story March 31 about a prosecutor declining to charge two Minneapolis police officers in the death of a black man, The Associated Press erroneously reported the first name of one of the officers. He is Dustin Schwarze, not Mark Schwarze.

Obama finds common cause on NKorea with China and allies Posted: 31 Mar 2016 04:16 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of mounting threats from North Korea, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged closer security ties among its chief allies in Asia and increased cooperation with strategic rival China to discourage Pyongyang from further advances in nuclear weapons.

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