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  • Mitt Romney gets enough delegates, in some counts, to go over the top in his bid for the GOP nomination. But his celebration is upstaged by Donald Trump. Plus: The Texas GOP goes into overtime to find a Senate nominee, Rep. Thad McCotter plans a write-in campaign, and a look ahead to Wisconsin.
  • Yale economics student Sam Dorward reviewed career statistics of newly drafted NFL quarterbacks. He says new draft picks have better careers if they wait a year to start at quarterback. But the teams with the top picks are unlikely to be patient.
  • At Citigroup's annual meeting Tuesday, 55 percent of shareholders voted against big paychecks for the firms top executives. Citigroup's latest pay package saw the CEO take home some $25 million, despite dwindling share values. The vote is not binding, but analysts call it historic.
  • With top U.S. lawmakers warning of new terrorism threats, intelligence officials in the U.K. say there remains an enduring threat from bombs made by terrorists in Yemen.
  • People from China are considered the world's top tourists, spending more on average than people from other countries.
  • Peru has taken over as the world's top producer of cocaine. The BBC's Robin Lustig visits a coca plantation in Peru and reports on efforts to curb production in that nation.
  • Area residents found themselves stuck inside of a crime scene Thursday night and Friday morning. Pictures taken behind window screens and on top of roofs gave the world a look at what people were seeing.
  • On this day in 1997, Garry Kasparov, the world's top chess player, played IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue — and lost. Now, poker players are trying something similar, and they're winning.
  • An Italian perfume maker was commissioned to create the pope's cologne. The exact formula is top secret but it's rumored to have hints of lime, verbena and grass — reflecting the pontiffs love of nature.
  • For the first time in a decade, someone other than Jerry Seinfeld tops Forbes' ranking of the highest-paid comedians.
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