Czech Republic would like to be less of a mouthful | Microsoft suing the government | Brazilian Supreme Court upholds Rousseff impeachment vote | Deadly earthquake in Japan | Video shows kidnapped Nigerian girls alive | North Korean missile launch fails | US deploying warplanes to the South China Sea | Canada pushing for assisted suicide law | Tennessee governor says no to the bible as the official state book | Also has a religious freedom bill on the docket | Pennsylvania legalizing medical marijuana | Hillary and Bernie get heated in Brooklyn | Putin compliments Obama | Obama speaking at three schools’ commencement ceremonies | New price-measuring index introduced | UC Davis paid to try to get photo scrubbed from internet | Zika can be passed between male partners | Norovirus outbreak at University of Rochester | Snapchat is No. 1 among teens | Instagram beefing up its video presence | The New Republic EIC leaving | New York Post EIC retiring | New York Times investing in global expansion | Pepsi for hipsters | Bob Dylan-themed Amazon series | Horace and Pete may get Emmy consideration | Matilda saying goodbye to Broadway | Asia McClain penning a book | Titans send No. 1 spot to Rams for windfall of picks | Rams targeting Goff | Percy Harvin retiring | NFL schedule out | Lakers cash in on Kobe’s final game | Kings fire George Karl | Tubby Smith off to Memphis | Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have another kid coming | Kelly Clarkson gets a son

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