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From a website known to be a verbatim source for some AL tossups: Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan vice-president under Hugo

o Chavez, won the presidential election in that country on Sunday. The movie 42, a biopic about Jackie Robinson, is named for the number of his uniform. The U.S. Senate is set to take up two hot-button issues this week: gun control and immigration reform All 108 passengers survived after a Lion Air jet missed the runway, then snapped in two while crash landing in shallow water near the resort island of Bali Maria Tallchief, one of the best-known American ballerinas of the 20th century died at 88 Last week, lawmakers in Uruguay voted to legalize same-sex marriage in their country, making it the second South American country to do so. Adam Scott became the first golfer from Australia to win the U.S. Masters golf tournament. Connecticut (UConn) beat Louisville to claim the Womens NCAA hoops title Lousiville beats Michigan in the Mens NCAA hoops title As the world anticipated North Korea's next move, the country celebrated the 101st birthday of its late founder Kim Il-sung on Monday Francine Wheeler, the mother of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, gave the presidential radio address on Saturday in place of President Obama TIME Magazine news quiz (another known verbatim source): Ford Focus announced best selling car of 2012 Margaret Thatcher, first female PM of UK dies at 87. Nicknamed Iron Lady. Republicans are outraged that singers Jay-Z and Beyonc are spending their fifth wedding anniversary in Havana, Cuba On Apr. 10, President Obama unveiled the 2014 budget Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated as Kenya's youngest president The US Postal Service announces that it will not end Saturday mail service after all Huffington Post news quiz (unconfirmed as an AL source): North Korea calls the US "similar to a boiled pumpkin" Margaret Thatcher once said that "Tony Blair" was her greatest achievement Senators moved ahead with bipartisan legislation for background checks on gun owners At a community college in Texas, more than a dozen people were wounded in a stabbing attack Cuba returned a couple that had fled there after they had abducted their two children from the United States Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner told The New York Times he was considering seeking mayorship in NY The AP announced that it is removing the term illegal immigrant from its stylebook General news from Wikipedia: Two explosions in Boston, MA near the finish of the 2013 Boston Marathon leave 3 people dead and more than 144 injured. At least 33 people die when a bus tumbles into a river near Trujillo, Peru In Chile, 100,000 students take to the streets to demand educational reforms. A seven-year-old girl is confirmed as the first person in Beijing, China, to catch the Influenza A virus H7N9 bird flu An earthquake estimated at a magnitude of 6.0 hits Kobe, Japan, injuring at least 22 people The Times reports that evidence smuggled out of Syria indicates the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict. The French Senate approves same-sex marriage in France putting the bill on track to become law by summer Scientist find a rare dinosaur egg with the remaining fossil of an embryo in China. Thirty-six policemen in Mumbai, India are suspended after they are filmed allegedly taking bribes. Singer Madonna is accused by the office of Malawi President Joyce Banda of "bullying state officials" South Korea and the US raise their military alert to "vital threat" (level 2) ahead of an expected North Korean missile launch Wikileaks announces the release of 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence documents from 19731976 when Henry Kissinger was United States Secretary of State. A 6.1magnitude earthquake rocks the Iranian towns of Khvormuj, Bandar Deyr and Kangan Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom receives an honorary BAFTA award for her support of British film and television and she is honored as the "most memorable Bond girl" Pulitzer Prize-winning film reviewer Roger Ebert dies at the age of 70 following a battle with cancer Apple Inc. publishes a letter, signed by CEO Tim Cook, to Chinese customers, to address the growing controversy over the company's warranty policies in the country Privately owned newspapers go on sale in Myanmar for the first time since 1964.

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