10 Things to Know for Today: 4-23

4/23/2014
ASSOCIATED PRESS
  • EU-Ukraine

    In this photo taken on Sunday, April 13, 2014, a reporter Simon Ostrovsky, right, stands next to a Pro-Russian gunman at a seized police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk. Pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine say they are holding an American journalist captive. Ostrovsky, a journalist for Vice News, has not been seen since early Tuesday. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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    • Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

    1. SUPREME COURT DEALS BLOW TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

    By a 6-2 majority, the court declares that state voters can outlaw using race as a factor in college admissions.

    2. PRO-RUSSIAN GUNMEN HOLD AMERICAN JOURNALIST HOSTAGE

    Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky was kidnapped in Ukraine’s eastern city of Slovyansk.

    3. SOUTH KOREAN CAPTAIN’S IMAGE AT ODDS WITH HANDLING OF DISASTER

    One colleague calls ferry Capt. Lee Joon-seok the nicest person on board. How did the man with a sterling reputation and glittering gold epaulets abandon a sinking ship full of teenagers?

    4. CAIRO BOMB KILLS SENIOR SECURITY OFFICER

    A brigadier general dies in the latest attack against Egypt’s police force.

    5. WHERE OBAMA SEEKS TO LEVEL PLAYING FIELD

    The president’s Asian tour aims to reassure partners about U.S. commitment to region, while balancing power of a more assertive China.

    6. STOWAWAY WENT UNDETECTED FOR HOURS AT AIRPORT

    Surveillance video shows teen who flew to Hawaii in wheel well of jetliner was on San Jose airfield seven hours before flight departed.

    7. MICHIGAN MAN FOURTH IN US TO GET ‘BIONIC EYE‘

    After years of living with Robert Pontz’s blindness, a retinal prosthesis helps him see, prompting his wife to say something she never thought she’d say.

    8. VATICAN SET TO CANONIZE REVOLUTIONARY PONTIFF ALONG WITH JOHN PAUL II

    John XXIII, fondly remembered as the “Good Pope,” ushered in a modern Catholic Church in the 1960s.

    9. WHY CALIFORNIA’S DEMOCRATS ARE DIVIDED

    In the nation’s most populous and ethnically diverse state-the first to ban using race and ethnicity in college admissions-debate unfolds about reinstating affirmative action.

    10. HOW A TWITTER REQUEST BY THE NYPD BACKFIRED

    The city’s police department asked people to send their photos with officers using #myNYPD. Many tweeted pictures of police brutality instead.