Magnitude 4.6 earthquake shakes Big Island and other top stories.

• Magnitude 4.6 earthquake shakes Big Island

  The quake was reported at 6:43 a.m. about nine miles southeast of Waikoloa, 24 miles northeast of Kailua-Kona, and 39 miles west-northwest of Hilo. It had a ...

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• As Obama visits, Cuba's top diplomat open to hearing criticism

  

  By Patrick Oppmann CNN HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba's top negotiator with the United States welcomed the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama to the island on Sunday and said officials there would listen with "respect" to any criticisms of the communist-run government."We are neighbors. Although we might have profound differences, we have many values we share," said Josefina Vidal, the general director of U.S. affairs at Cuba's Foreign Ministry."Your model isn't perfect. Ours isn't," she said. "..

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• McConnell: No lame duck confirmation

  

  By Eric Bradner CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ruled out confirming President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in a lame duck session after November's election. In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" Sunday, the Kentucky Republican stuck by his stance that Obama's successor ought to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. "I can't imagine that a Republican majority Congress in a lame duck session..

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• Indiana shootout: Officer killed and another injured

  

  By Dana Ford CNN (CNN) -- A sheriff's deputy died Sunday and another was injured after both were shot while attempting to serve warrants in Russiaville, Indiana, authorities said.The officers received no response when they knocked on the door to a home. They then entered the residence where they were confronted by gunfire, authorities said.Officers returned fire. Two were struck -- Sgt. Jordan J. Buckley, 35, and Deputy Carl A. Koontz, 27.Buckley, a nine-year veteran of the Howard County Sherif..

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• Signs of Hawaiian life: Seoul

  

  ... Email “Signs of Hawaiian Life” photos to mpoole@staradvertiser.com or mail to Signs of Hawaiian Life, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., Suite 7-210, Honolulu, HI 96813.

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• Terror investigation uncovers 'a lot of weapons,' Belgium official says

  

  By Frederik Pleitgen, Greg Botelho, Paul Cruickshank and Tim Hume CNN (CNN) -- The arrest of terror suspect Salah Abdeslam resulted in authorities finding a large number of weapons, Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said Sunday. "He was ready to restart something in Brussels," said Reynders, speaking at the German Marshall Fund's Brussels Forum. "And it's maybe the reality because we have found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons, in the first investigations and we have found a new network a..

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• Gunshots killed missing Texas teen, medical examiner says

  

  By Ralph Ellis CNN (CNN) -- A 14-year-old Texas girl whose father was shot and burned died herself of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the medical examiner's case report posted on the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences website.Adriana Coronado was last seen March 12 in the Houston suburb of Katy. Her decomposing body, discovered Wednesday in a field near the Sam Houston Parkway outside Houston, was identified through fingerprints a couple of days ago, authorities said.The medical..

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• Obama gets candid about Hillary Clinton's candidacy

  

  By John King CNN Chief National Correspondent WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama's candor about Hillary Clinton, insights on Donald Trump's issues with Mormons, John Kasich's strategy, and the race to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate -- those are just a few of tomorrow's headlines today in our "Inside Politics" forecast.1) A candid president discusses Clinton's weaknesses President Obama took a turn as a pundit this past week, talking candidly at a fund-raiser in Texas about the 2016 campaign ..

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• Spring snow: Northeast faces messy commute Monday

  

  By Ralph Ellis CNN (CNN) -- Snow is expected to fall across the Northeast on Sunday night, creating a difficult commute Monday for workers in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia.Spring officially started at 12:30 a.m. ET Sunday, but that's not much comfort to folks in Massachusetts. They'll get the worst of the snow that falls through Monday morning, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.Boston will see up to 8 inches of snow in the southern suburbs and 4 to 6 inches in the northern suburbs, wi..

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• Suspected arson targets key witness in fatal West Bank firebombing

  

  By Oren Lieberman CNN (CNN) -- A suspected firebombing in the West Bank early ?Sunday morning targeted a key witness in an arson attack that killed three members of a Palestinian family last summer, says the Israeli Human Rights Organization called "Rabbis for Human Rights." The group's leader, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, said that according to "the evidence we have received, it is pretty clear it was arson," but he would not say who might have carried out the attack. At about ?3 a.m., Israeli police..

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