Controversial Canadian Anti-Terror Bill C-51 passes in the House of Commons. http://infobitt.com/b/12058
The City of Chicago will pay a total of up to $5.5 million to dozens of people tortured by the city's police in the 1970s and 1980s along with other reparations. http://infobitt.com/b/12050
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the U.S. "can't do a damn thing" to harm Iran's nuclear facilities and that Iran would not hold nuclear talks when the U.S. is threatening military action. http://infobitt.com/b/12039
A watchdog group says conflicts and violence around the world have displaced a record 38 million people inside their own countries. http://infobitt.com/b/12053
Severe storms spawned tornadoes and brought flooding and heavy winds to Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. Tornado damage has already been reported southwest of Oklahoma City. http://infobitt.com/b/12059
Endangered yellow-crested cockatoos were stuffed into 1.5L plastic bottles and packed into travel bags in an attempt to smuggle them out of the Port of Tanjung Perak in Surabaya, Indonesia. http://infobitt.com/b/12056
A House bill is aimed at stopping warrantless spying on Americans. http://infobitt.com/b/12049
Errol Brown, lead singer of the pop and disco group Hot Chocolate, is dead, age 71. He fronted the group from the late Sixties through the early Eighties. http://infobitt.com/b/12057
Businesses added just 169,000 jobs in April, according to payroll processor ADP, while economists had expected 198,000. http://infobitt.com/b/12037
Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot suspected of deliberately flying a German airliner into the French Alps, appears to have tried to rehearse the fatal dive during an earlier flight on the day of the crash. http://infobitt.com/b/12036
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