• California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
• S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
• US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
• LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
• S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
• US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
• US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
• High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
• CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
• Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect

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  Sanders’ hit on Clinton not the first, or likely the last

  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ claim that Hillary Clinton isn’t qualified to be president landed with a boom this week. The blow was far from the first — and won’t likely be the last —...

  • Posted April 8, 2016
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  13 N. Koreans from overseas restaurant defect to S. Korea: Seoul

  SEOUL, (Yonhap) — A group of 13 North Koreans working at a restaurant in a foreign country defected en masse to South Korea this week, Seoul’s unification ministry said Friday, as the U.N. Security Council has slapped...

  • Posted April 8, 2016
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  Ambassador says Panamanian gov’t ready to cooperate in ‘Panama Papers’ probe

  SEOUL, (Yonhap) — Panama’s government is willing to cooperate with any country investigating or planning to inquire into suspected tax evaders mentioned in millions of documents recently leaked by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Latin American...

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Americans overwhelmingly view Trump negatively

  WASHINGTON (AP) — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the Republican front-runner with unprecedented unpopularity as he tries to overcome recent campaign setbacks. Seven in...

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  S. Korea urges Japan to stop claims to Dokdo

  SEOUL, (Yonhap) — South Korea on Thursday urged Japan to stop making claims to Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo as Tokyo is poised to issue a 2016 diplomatic white paper that reportedly includes a sovereignty claim to...

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Samsung Electronics’ Q1 earnings beat forecast

  SEOUL, (Yonhap) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday its first-quarter operating profit is estimated to have hovered far above the previous forecast, apparently on the back of early sales of its flagship smartphone,...

  • Posted April 6, 2016
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  Kerry slams Trump’s nuclear armament suggestion

  WASHINGTON, (Yonhap) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has slammed Donald Trump’s suggestion that South Korea and Japan develop their own nuclear weapons for self-defense, saying nothing can be “more volatile” or “more contrary” to peace...

  • Posted April 6, 2016
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