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The doctor who was dragged off a United flight by Chicago Department of Aviation security officers earlier this month is preparing for legal action over the incident, his lawyer told ABC News.

When asked by ABC News' Linsey Davis in an interview on Monday if Dr. Dao is planning legal action, attorney Thomas Demetrio said they are "getting ready."

United told ABC News that it had offered passengers on the plane up to $800 to give up their seats for four crew members who needed to board. No one volunteered, so the airline generated a list of four names to be removed from the flight and re-accommodated, per by the airline's contract of carriage. Three of those people complied, and one did not. That's when the police were called to remove the man, later identified as Dao.

United CEO Oscar Munoz apologized for the incident and has vowed that the company will conduct a "thorough review" of the "truly horrific event."

Dao is still receiving treatment after suffering injuries in the April 9 incident, according to his lawyer.

Demetrio added that he has received hundreds of emails from passengers about their experiences on flights after taking up the Kentucky doctor's case.

Dao's lawyer is also representing an American Airlines passenger who is at the center of another viral video posted to Facebook on Friday. The footage shows an intense confrontation between a flight attendant and at least two passengers after a woman tried to bring her double-wide stroller on board a plane.

The airline's rules for passengers traveling with children say strollers should be checked at the gate.

American Airlines responded to the incident shortly after the video began to circulate online, announcing in a statement that the flight attendant had been put on leave while the incident was investigated and that the woman and her family were upgraded to first class for the remainder of their international trip.

"What we see on this video does not reflect our values or how we care for our customers," American Airlines added in its statement. "We are deeply sorry for the pain we have caused this passenger and her family and to any other customers affected by the incident."

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The doctor who was dragged off a United flight by Chicago Department of Aviation security officers earlier this month is preparing for legal action over the incident, his lawyer told ABC News. When asked by ABC News' Linsey Davis in an interview on Monday if Dr. Dao is planning legal action, attorney Thomas Demetrio said they are "getting ready."

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The Next X-Men Film Will Be About The Phoenix

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The Next X-Men Film Will Be About The Phoenix

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X-Men: Apocalypse was ass. It's a shame too because Days Of Future Past was amazing. Logan made up for Apocalypse, but that doesn't change the fact that Fox just can't be consistent with the X-men brand. I think their next outing will make or break the public's faith in their ability to handle the X-men.

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Two dead leatherback sea turtles have been discovered along South Carolina's coast.

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Norman Powell storming through the postseason for Raptors

The Raptors guard came up with his best performance of the season and moved his team within one win of clinching a series he has starred in.

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Golden State used a 45-point first quarter to put a series-clinching Game 4 out of reach in Portland.

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(CNN)Just days after insisting that any spending bill to keep the federal government open include more than $1 billion for his proposed border wall, President Trump backed off that pledge -- abruptly ending the expected brinksmanship between the White House and Congress expected to dominate the week.

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"Not this week," White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said of the push for $1.4 billion as a downpayment for the border wall in a Tuesday morning interview with Fox News. "Building that wall and having it funded remains an important priority to him," she added. "We also know that that can happen later this year and into next year."

That rapid cycle of demand-to-capitulation is enough to give you whiplash. It's also the second time in as many months Trump has swerved to avoid a collision with Republicans in Congress.

The simple political fact is that a government shutdown would be a massive political problem for Republicans. They control both chambers of Congress and the White House -- and everyone knows it. Blaming Democrats for their intransigence would be a non-starter in such a situation. The full weight of the blame would fall on Republicans -- particularly Congressional Republicans, many of whom have to stand for re-election in 18 months time.

Republicans are still struggling to prove to a skeptical public that they can be a governing party not just the loyal opposition. Shutting down the government for even a day would be proof point #1 for Democrats to make the argument that Republicans are unsuited to lead. And doing so over a border wall proposal that's not popular outside a portion of the Republican base would be even more disastrous.

Trump, unlike, say, Ted Cruz, is not the sort of person to charge at political windmills. He wants to win, first and foremost. And the way to win is to pick fights where success is the very likely outcome.

Trump punted because punting made political sense.

What's more baffling to me is why he floated the $1.4 billion allocation for the border wall in the first place. Was it a trial balloon to see if Congressional Republicans might be open to it? An attempt to work the refs a bit so when the next spending debate comes up Trump has set the floor of what he wants to see spent on the wall? Or was it just something Trump said one day and then quickly realized was going nowhere?

With Trump the line between strategy and sounding-off is a fuzzy one. But, regardless of his reasoning, Trump blinked -- and blinked quickly -- in his second major showdown with a Republican Congress. Worth noting: He also blinked the first time, telling Speaker Paul Ryan to pull the healthcare bill before it even came to a vote.

There appears to be a pattern emerging.

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Just days after insisting that any spending bill to keep the federal government open include more than $1 billion for his proposed border wall, President Trump backed off that pledge -- abruptly ending the expected brinksmanship between the White House and Congress expected to dominate the week.

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a 1 year old was kidnapped by her dad in California, and he is also armed.

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An amber alert went out for a 1 year old girl who was kidnapped by her father.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. to retire from NASCAR after 2017 season

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North Korea marks anniversary with massive artillery drill

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A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones and leaving at least two with head injuries

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The doctor who was dragged off a United flight by Chicago Department of Aviation security officers earlier this month is preparing for legal action over the incident, his lawyer told ABC News.

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Google makes its debut for its flying car

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Larry Page's long-rumored "flying car" project is finally ready for takeoff.

Kitty Hawk, a startup backed by the Google cofounder, unveiled its prototype for an "ultralight" aircraft that can take off vertically -- as long as you're flying over open water.

In a demonstration shared online Monday, the Kitty Hawk Flyer is shown lifting off over a lake with the help of small propellers under its base. The prototype looks less like a car than a jet ski with wings.

The Flyer is expected to go on sale by the end of this year, according to the company's website. The price has yet to be announced.

The startup says it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for the aircraft to be flown in "uncongested areas." Customers will not need a pilot's license to use it.

"We've all had dreams of flying effortlessly. I'm excited that one day very soon I'll be able to climb onto my Kitty Hawk Flyer for a quick and easy personal flight," Page said in a statement provided to The New York Times, which was first to report the news.

Related: As Uber makes a pitch for flying cars, transit hype jumps the shark

Nearly a year ago, Page was reported to have invested more than $100 million in flying car startups.

Reps for the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Kitty Hawk and a former Google exec who led the company's self-driving car efforts, described the mission on Twitter as nothing short of "changing the future of personal transportation."

If the Kitty Hawk prototype doesn't exactly look like the flying car of your sci-fi fantasies, you're probably not alone.

Several firms, including Aeromobil and Terrafugia, are developing flying cars that look more like tiny planes than cars. Many rely on vertical takeoff and landing, or VTOL, eliminating the need for a runway.

The Kitty Hawk announcement also gets out of in front of Uber, which is scheduled to hold an event Tuesday related to its own flying car efforts.

Page's Google has a complicated relationship with Uber. Google is an investor in the ride-hailing startup, but Google's self-driving car unit is currently suing Uber for allegedly stealing its intellectual property.

CNNMoney (New York) First published April 24, 2017: 10:52 AM ET

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In particular, investigators found three handwritten notes next to a Bible in the prison cell. It was not immediately clear what those notes said.

That information comes from a joint statement from Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr., Massachusetts State Police Superintendent Col. Richard McKeon, and Secretary of Public Safety Daniel Bennett.

Hernandez's died early Wednesday morning after he hanged himself by a bedsheet in his prison cell, the Massachusetts Department of Correction said. The former tight end for the New England Patriots had been serving a life sentence without parole after being convicted in the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.

Hernandez was found dead with the words "John 3:16" written on his forehead, according to a law enforcement source directly involved in the investigation into the former NFL star's death.

The notation is believed to refer to the words in the Bible from John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Law enforcement personnel told CNN's Deborah Feyerick that inmates often use this verse.

According to the joint statement, Hernandez was locked in his cell about 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, and no one entered the cell until he was found by a correction officer at 3:03 a.m. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead about an hour later.

Cardboard had been jammed into the door tracks of his single-inmate cell to impede entry, according to the statement. There were no signs of a struggle and he was alone at the time.

Hernandez's death came just five days after his acquittal in the 2012 slayings of two men outside a Boston nightclub in a separate case.

This article has been updated to better characterize details about the manner in which the Bible verse was written. CNN continues to gather reporting to clarify the information.

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As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, U.S. Fears Time Will Run Out

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WASHINGTON - Behind the Trump administration's sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude the country is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.

That acceleration in pace - impossible to verify until experts get beyond the limited access to North Korean facilities that ended years ago - explains why President Trump and his aides fear they are running out of time. For years, American presidents decided that each incremental improvement in the North's program - another nuclear test, a new variant of a missile - was worrisome, but not worth a confrontation that could spill into open conflict.

Now those step-by-step advances have resulted in North Korean warheads that in a few years could reach Seattle. "They've learned a lot," said Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who directed the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, from 1986 to 1997, and whom the North Koreans have let into their facilities seven times.
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North Korea is now threatening another nuclear test, which would be its sixth in 11 years. The last three tests - the most recent was in September - generated Hiroshima-size explosions. It is unclear how Mr. Trump would react to a test, but he told representatives of the United Nations Security Council at the White House on Monday that they should be prepared to pass far more restrictive sanctions, which American officials say should include cutting off energy supplies.

"People have put blindfolds on for decades, and now it's time to solve the problem," Mr. Trump said.

He made his remarks after a Sunday night phone call on North Korea with Xi Jinping, China's president, who urged Mr. Trump to show "restraint" with North Korea, according to a Chinese television report. White House officials said little about the call, and aides are trying to use Mr. Trump's unpredictability to the greatest advantage, hoping it will keep the Chinese off balance and deter the North Koreans.
A Bomb for Survival
Inside the C.I.A., they call it "the disco ball."

It is a round, metallic sphere, covered by small circles, that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, is shown caressing in official photographs as if it were his crown jewel. And it may be: The sphere is supposedly a nuclear weapon, shrunken to fit inside the nose cone of one of the country's growing arsenal of missiles.

American intelligence officials still debate whether it is a real bomb or a mock-up that is part of the country's vast propaganda effort. But it is intended to show where the country is headed.

Unless something changes, North Korea's arsenal may well hit 50 weapons by the end of Mr. Trump's term, about half the size of Pakistan's. American officials say the North already knows how to shrink those weapons so they can fit atop one of its short- to medium-range missiles - putting South Korea and Japan, and the thousands of American troops deployed in those two nations, within range. The best estimates are that North Korea has roughly 1,000 ballistic missiles in eight or so varieties.

But fulfilling Mr. Kim's dream - putting a nuclear weapon atop an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach Seattle or Los Angeles, or one day New York - remains a more complex problem.

As Dr. Hecker, a man who has built his share of nuclear weapons, noted last week, any weapon that could travel that far would have to be "smaller, lighter and surmount the additional difficulties of the stresses and temperatures" of a fiery re-entry into the atmosphere.

By most estimates, that is four or five years away. Then again, many senior officials said the same four or five years ago.

But the North has come farther than most experts expected since the infancy of its program in the 1950s, when the Soviet Union began training North Korean scientists in nuclear basics.

It took three decades for the North to assemble the technology it needed to make its own bomb fuel. Finally, from a reactor at Yongbyon, it succeeded in making plutonium: enough for about one atomic bomb a year.

The first North Korean nuclear crisis, in 1994, ended in an agreement with the Clinton administration to freeze the North's production facilities in return for oil and peaceful reactors. It fell apart early in the George W. Bush administration. In 2006, the first test explosion, while unimpressive, entered North Korea into the club of nuclear powers. Analysts say the first blast was a plutonium bomb, as was a second detonation just months into the Obama administration in 2009.

Mr. Hecker visited Yongbyon in 2010, and the North Koreans showed him a complete uranium enrichment facility, which American intelligence agencies had missed. The message was clear: The North now had two pathways to a bomb, uranium and plutonium. Today, it has an arsenal made up of both, intelligence officials believe.

And it is aiming for something much bigger: a hydrogen bomb, with a destructive force up to 1,000 times greater than ordinary nuclear weapons. That is exactly the path the United States took in the 1950s.

Recently, United Nations investigators found evidence that the North's factories had succeeded in producing lithium 6, a rare ingredient needed to make thermonuclear fuel. Gregory S. Jones, a scientist at the RAND Corporation, said the North might have already used bits of thermonuclear fuel in its 2016 detonations.

A potential clue, analysts say, is that the North's five blasts over the past decade have grown steadily more destructive.
The Hard Part: Shrinking the Bomb
A bomb is useless to North Korea - as an offensive weapon or as a deterrent - unless the country can make a convincing case that it has a reliable delivery system. So when the North flaunts missiles at military parades, as it did on April 15, the stars of the show tend to be the big missiles that are designed to reach Washington and New York. While several intercontinental ballistic missiles rolled down the streets of Pyongyang, conducting a flight test that proves one could fly that far, and land with accuracy, is so far only an aspiration.

Missing from the parade were the short- and medium-range missiles that have been successfully flight tested. American intelligence agencies believe some of those can carry operational nuclear arms. The critical one is the Nodong, which has a range of about 800 miles.

But the North Koreans are discovering - as the United States, the Soviet Union and China did before them - that it is far more complicated to design an intercontinental missile. With that weapons system, a warhead would move at four miles a second and re-enter the atmosphere in fiery heat - so, if badly engineered, it would burn up long before hitting a target. To reach their goal, North Korean weapons designers are looking to miniaturize their warheads, making them far lighter and more powerful.

The big effort these days is to merge two technologies: Get a missile that can cross the Pacific, and marry it to a warhead that can survive the ride. And this is why the United States is so desperate to stop the cycle of testing.

The cyber- and electronic warfare attacks that President Barack Obama ordered against the country's missile fleet were intended to slow North Korea's learning curve. The Musudan, which can travel 2,200 miles, has racked up an embarrassing failure rate of 88 percent - although how much of that is due to incompetence or outside meddling is not known. Until the North Koreans figure out what is going wrong, and how to fix it, they appear hesitant to test the KN-14 and the KN-08, both of which are designed to hit the continental United States.

The diplomatic pressure from China to stop a sixth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri test site is intended to keep the North Koreans from making advances in warhead miniaturization and the design of a hydrogen bomb. As Mr. Obama noted before he left office, even failures are important learning tools for the North Koreans, aiding the trial-and-error process of making new warheads.

How long will it take for the North Koreans to solve those problems? The best guesswork is around 2020 - while Mr. Trump is still in his first term.
A Freeze, but to What End?
The strategy emerging from Mr. Trump's national security team comes down to this: Apply overwhelming pressure on the North, both military and economic, to freeze its testing and reduce its stockpile. Then use that opening to negotiate, with the ultimate goal of getting the North Koreans to give up all their weapons.

Many experts, however, believe that is a fantasy, because Mr. Kim regards even a small arsenal as critical to his survival. The upside of the strategy, if it works, is that the "nuclear freeze" would delay for years the day the North can fit a small, reliable, well-tested weapon atop a large, reliable, well-tested missile. The downside is that it would leave the North Koreans with a small, potent arsenal - one the United States would be essentially acknowledging, if not accepting.

That is why it will be hard for Mr. Trump to fulfill his vow to "solve this problem." And every day, there is the chance of miscalculation, or an accident.

At any moment, Dr. Hecker said on a call to reporters organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a live weapon could turn into an accidental nuclear detonation or some other catastrophe.

"I happen to believe," he said, "the crisis is here now."
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Two inmates received lethal injections on the same gurney Monday night about three hours apart as Arkansas completed the nation's first double execution since 2000, just days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on administering capital punishment.

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VARNER, Ark. (AP) - Two inmates received lethal injections on the same gurney Monday night about three hours apart as Arkansas completed the nation's first double execution since 2000, just days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on administering capital punishment.

While the first inmate, Jack Jones, was executed on schedule, shortly after 7 p.m., attorneys for the second, Marcel Williams, convinced a federal judge minutes later to briefly delay his punishment over concerns about how the earlier one was carried out. They claimed Jones gasped for air, an account the state's attorney general denied, but the judge lifted her stay about an hour later and Williams was pronounced dead at 10:33 p.m..

Initially, Gov. Asa Hutchinson scheduled four double executions over an 11-day period in April. The eight executions would have been the most by a state in such a compressed period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The state said the executions needed to be carried out before its supply of one lethal injection drug expires on April 30.

The first three executions were canceled because of court decisions, then inmate Ledell Lee was executed last week.

The last state to put more than one inmate to death on the same day was Texas, which executed two killers in August 2000. Arkansas' last double execution occurred in 1999.

Jones was sent to death row for the 1995 rape and killing of Mary Phillips. He was also convicted of attempting to kill Phillips' 11-year-old daughter and was convicted in another rape and killing in Florida.

Jones said earlier this month that he was ready for execution. He used a wheelchair and he'd had a leg amputated in prison because of diabetes.

The state conducted its first execution last week after a nearly 12-year hiatus. Initially, Gov. Asa Hutchinson scheduled four double executions over an 11-day period in April. The eight executions would have been the most by a state in such a compressed period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The state said the executions needed to be carried out before its supply of midazolam, one lethal injection drug, expires on April 30.

The first three executions were canceled because of court decisions, then inmate Ledell Lee was executed last week.

Williams' "morbid obesity makes it likely that either the IV line cannot be placed or that it will be placed in error, thus causing substantial damage (like a collapsed lung)," his attorneys wrote in an earlier court filing asking justices to block the execution.

Both men were served last meals on Monday afternoon, Arkansas Department of Correction spokesman Solomon Graves said. Jones had fried chicken, potato logs with tartar sauce, beef jerky bites, three candy bars, a chocolate milkshake and fruit punch. Williams had fried chicken, banana pudding, nachos, two sodas and potato logs with ketchup, Graves said.

In recent pleadings before state and federal courts, the inmates said the three drugs Arkansas uses to execute prisoners - midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride - could be ineffective because of their poor health.

Jones, 52, lost a leg to diabetes and was on insulin. Williams, 46, weighs 400 pounds, is diabetic and has concerns that the execution team might not be able to find a suitable vein to support an intravenous line.

The poor health of both men, their lawyers claimed, could make it difficult for them to respond during a consciousness check following a megadose of midazolam. The state shouldn't risk giving them drugs to stop their lungs and hearts if they aren't unconscious, they have told courts.

The last state to put more than one inmate to death on the same day was Texas, which executed two killers in August 2000. Oklahoma planned a double execution in 2014 but scrapped plans for the second one after the execution of Clayton Lockett went awry.

Arkansas executed four men in an eight-day period in 1960. The only quicker pace included quadruple executions in 1926 and 1930.

Williams was sent to death row for the 1994 rape and killing of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson, whom he kidnapped from a gas station in central Arkansas.

Authorities said Williams abducted and raped two other women in the days before he was arrested in Errickson's death. Williams admitted responsibility to the state Parole Board last month.

"I wish I could take it back, but I can't," Williams told the board.

Jones was given the death penalty for the 1995 rape and killing of Mary Phillips. He strangled her with the cord to a coffee pot.

In a letter earlier this month, Jones said he was ready to be killed by the state. The letter, which his attorney read aloud at his clemency hearing, went on to say: "I shall not ask to be forgiven, for I haven't the right."

Including Jones and Williams, nine people have been executed in the United States this year, four in Texas, three in Arkansas and one each in Missouri and Virginia. Last year, 20 people were executed, down from 98 in 1999 and the lowest number since 14 in 1991, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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Associated Press writers Jill Bleed contributed to this report from Little Rock.

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Amber Alert for a one year old who was kidnapped by her dad.

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Police in California have issued an Amber Alert for a 1-year-old girl who allegedly was kidnapped by her father.

The girl's father, Daniel Segura, is considered armed and dangerous, according to the San Bernardino County sheriff's office.
AMBER ALERT: SIGHTING OF MISSING TEEN, TEACHER AT OKLAHOMA WALMART CONFIRMED
The sheriff's office did not say how the girl, Lexi Segura, was taken but said she was abducted in Ranch Segura Cucamonga, which is about 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

Segura is 5-foot-5 inches tall, has brown hair and brown eyes and weighs about 170 pounds. He has several tattoos on his arms and neck, the sheriff's office said.
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His daughter has brown hair, brown eyes, is 3 feet tall and weighs about 35 pounds. She was last seen wearing a baby blue shirt with gold writing, blue jeans and pink shoes.

Segura was last seen driving a 2012 red Mitsubishi Galant that later turned up abandoned, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Kevin Durant's return to the postseason coincided with the Trail Blazers' exit, as the Golden State Warriors blasted their foe from the first round 128-103 in a game that was never close to being close.

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kevin Durant's return coincided with the Portland Trail Blazers' exit, as the Golden State Warriors blasted their foe from the first round 128-103 in a game that was never close to being close. For Golden State, it's all coming so easily, while all getting so difficult in other respects. Steve Kerr's coaching career seems to hang in the balance, its fate decided by forces beyond anyone's control. When and if he'll be back from painful complications resulting from a cerebral spinal fluid leak, nobody knows.

At least his team has some time to evaluate and decide. Depending on what happens between the Jazz and Clippers, the Warriors start Round 2 on either April 30th or May 2nd. That time could prove crucial for a coach trying to regain his bearings through a cruelly unpredictable torment.

Meanwhile, the Warriors have looked overwhelming early in this postseason. They currently rest on the laurels of violent kind of sweep, one in which they ceded a lone close game. On Monday, the first quarter was total destruction, an emphatic clarification of Portland's vacation plans. Golden State's first basket was a harbinger of what was to come. In transition, Stephen Curry flipped the ball to Kevin Durant, who fluidly dribbled into a wing 3-pointer. It was the kind of play that happens after an established rhythm, the capper to an impressive run. In this case, it just kicked off the festivities.

Before he cooled down, Durant (10 points, 20 minutes) was a force in transition, going 3-of-3 in his eight first quarter minutes. The Warriors moved the ball crisply, finding Klay Thompson for an early barrage. Passes from Curry kept leading to points, with Warriors players hitting 6-of-6 off his passes over the first two quarters.

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Curry wasn't just a conductor on offense. He was in MVP form on Monday night, claiming 37 points in just under 30 minutes of play, the most stylish of which came on 2 different 2-of-1 opportunities from beyond the arc. The first of which, at the end of the second quarter, was set up by a behind-the-back dribble and step back. The shot sailed over an Al-Farouq Aminu close out, hitting its target as Curry fell to the floor. Steph's second 2-for-1 exploit came at the end of the third, and it might have been even bolder. Curry unleashed this 3-pointer, off the dribble, from beyond 30 feet, turning away before it hit net.

Draymond Green channeled his inner Steph in this one. Relatively reluctant to hoist 3-pointers with Kerr on the bench, Green dropped 3-of-5 from deep by halftime, 5-of-8 in the game. While Damian Lillard fought to keep the series going, his backcourt mate CJ McCollum had little to offer, going, 0-of-7 with 0 points in the first half. McCollum would go on to hit his first shot with 8:42 remaining in the game, deep within the garbage time oblivion.

In contrast to the first three games of the series, Golden State's offensive explosion wasn't fueled by a JaVale McGee run. Still, McGee may have provided the night's best highlight, rising up between Noah Vonleh and Allen Crabbe to send home a loud lob. The dunk was fantastic, but the reaction was better. Curry punched the air like a madman. Andre Iguodala did a full 360 turn. Kevin Durant, then sitting on the bench, ran onto the floor, just to congratulate JaVale. This was the first quarter, but it might as well have been the floor. The end was near and it was being celebrated.

While Kerr's future remains concerning and uncertain, his team has the tools to weather any storm. With or without the architect of so much success, Golden State remains the most formidable team in this playoff tournament, whether it's Mike Brown on the bench or anyone else.

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1:32 AM ET Ethan Sherwood StraussESPN Staff Writer Close Covers the Golden State Warriors for ESPN.com Contributes to ESPN's TrueHoop blog Hosts TrueHoop TV Live PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kevin Durant's return coincided with the Portland Trail Blazers' exit, as the Golden State Warriors blasted their foe from the first round 128-103 in a game that was never close to being close.

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F-35A stealth Joint Strike Fighters will fly from the United Kingdom to NATO-ally Estonia in the coming days, the official said. Estonia, a former Soviet republic, shares an almost 200-mile-long border with Russia.

F-35s will also deploy to Romania, another current NATO member and former Warsaw Pact ally of the Soviet Union, the official said.

Both Estonia and Romania are wary of Russian aggression following Moscow's annexation of Crimea. The official said the F-35A deployment to Europe is part of the European Reassurance Initiative set up in the wake of that annexation.

The F-35s are just the latest of example of US Air Force jets sent to Europe in connection with the European Reassurance Initiative. Others have included F-22s, F-16s, F-15s and A-10s.

Thousands of US ground forces have also been deployed in Europe as part of the program, including a US Army Armored Combat Brigade Team sent into Poland with great fanfare in January.

A Russian official called that deployment "a threat to us."

"This is an action that threatens our interests, our security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the time.

The movement of the F-35s, eight of which arrived in the UK on April 15 from their base in Utah, comes as Russian bombers have been making flights along the Alaskan coast.

US fighter jets intercepted Russian planes four times in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone last week, US officials said.

The Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone is a designated region of international airspace, primarily surrounding the US and Canada, that is meant as a buffer to allow for the identification of aircraft heading towards North America.

While these flights pose no real military threat, US defense officials are taking notice of the high frequency at which they've occurred in the past week.

There is "no other way to interpret this other than as strategic messaging," one official told CNN.

Moscow, for its part, said it "regularly carries out patrol missions above the neutral waters of the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Pacific Ocean."

"All such missions are carried out in strict compliance with international regulations and with respect to national borders," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a written statement.

Likewise, the US says the F-35 deployment was not a reaction to any recent specific incident.

"As we and our joint F-35 partners bring this aircraft into our inventories, it's important that we train together to integrate into a seamless team capable of defending the sovereignty of allied nations," Gen. Tod D. Wolters, commander of US Air Forces in Europe, said in a statement when the planes deployed to the UK.

The presence of the F-35s in Europe also helps the US show off the jets to European allies who already have them or plan to acquire their own versions, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Belgium, Denmark and Turkey.

The single-engine F-35 comes in three variants. The A version is flown by the US Air Force, the B version by the Marines, and the C version will become part of the US Navy's fleet.

Marine Corps F-35Bs began their first overseas deployment earlier this year when they were dispatched to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Japan.

That deployment was seen as the US bolstering allies in Japan and South Korea with the latest US high-tech combat hardware.

The Air Force emphasized a similar line with the deployment to Britain.

CNN's Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.

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F-35A stealth Joint Strike Fighters will fly from the United Kingdom to NATO-ally Estonia in the coming days, the official said. Estonia, a former Soviet republic, shares an almost 200-mile-long border with Russia. F-35s will also deploy to Romania, another current NATO member and former Warsaw Pact ally of the Soviet Union, the official said.

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Larry Page's long-rumored "flying car" project is finally ready for takeoff.

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Larry Page's long-rumored "flying car" project is finally ready for takeoff.

Kitty Hawk, a startup backed by the Google cofounder, unveiled its prototype for an "ultralight" aircraft that can take off vertically -- as long as you're flying over open water.

In a demonstration shared online Monday, the Kitty Hawk Flyer is shown lifting off over a lake with the help of small propellers under its base. The prototype looks less like a car than a jet ski with wings.

The Flyer is expected to go on sale by the end of this year, according to the company's website. The price has yet to be announced.

The startup says it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for the aircraft to be flown in "uncongested areas." Customers will not need a pilot's license to use it.

"We've all had dreams of flying effortlessly. I'm excited that one day very soon I'll be able to climb onto my Kitty Hawk Flyer for a quick and easy personal flight," Page said in a statement provided to The New York Times, which was first to report the news.

Related: As Uber makes a pitch for flying cars, transit hype jumps the shark

Nearly a year ago, Page was reported to have invested more than $100 million in flying car startups.

Reps for the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Kitty Hawk and a former Google exec who led the company's self-driving car efforts, described the mission on Twitter as nothing short of "changing the future of personal transportation."

If the Kitty Hawk prototype doesn't exactly look like the flying car of your sci-fi fantasies, you're probably not alone.

Several firms, including Aeromobil and Terrafugia, are developing flying cars that look more like tiny planes than cars. Many rely on vertical takeoff and landing, or VTOL, eliminating the need for a runway.

The Kitty Hawk announcement also gets out of in front of Uber, which is scheduled to hold an event Tuesday related to its own flying car efforts.

Page's Google has a complicated relationship with Uber. Google is an investor in the ride-hailing startup, but Google's self-driving car unit is currently suing Uber for allegedly stealing its intellectual property.

CNNMoney (New York) First published April 24, 2017: 10:52 AM ET

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Kitty Hawk, a startup backed by the Google cofounder, unveiled its prototype for an "ultralight" aircraft that can take off vertically -- as long as you're flying over open water. In a demonstration shared online Monday, the Kitty Hawk Flyer is shown lifting off over a lake with the help of small propellers under its base.

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More and more people are getting killed for protesting against Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro.

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A woman who was injured during a pro-government march in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, has died, ombudsman Tarek Saab said on Sunday.

The 47-year-old woman was hit by a bottle of frozen water thrown from a building at government supporters, Mr Saab tweeted [in Spanish].

Ten people have been killed in pro- and anti-government demonstrations this month so far.

Another 11 people died on Friday when a bakery was looted in Caracas.

Tension has risen sharply in Venezuela following a controversial decision on 29 March by the country's Supreme Court to take over the powers of the opposition-dominated National Assembly.

What is behind the crisis in Venezuela?

Critics of the government said the ruling undermined the country's separation of powers and took Venezuela a step closer to one-man rule under President Nicolas Maduro.

The Supreme Court's reversal of its ruling three days later was not enough to stop a wave of protests the original decision triggered.

There have been anti-government protests across cities in Venezuela almost daily this month, while government supporters have been holding rival marches to show their loyalty to President Maduro.

Both government and opposition supporters as well as bystanders have been killed during the marches and the violence surrounding them.

There is little sign of the protests subsiding as the opposition has vowed to "stay on the streets" until presidential elections due to be held at the end of 2018 are brought forward.

On Sunday, President Maduro called for talks with the opposition to resume.

Vatican-backed talks held late last year failed to yield any notable agreements and ended after the opposition accused the government of intransigence.

Opposition groups have called on their supporters to hold sit-ins across Venezuela on Monday in a continuation of their protests.

List of people killed in marches and unrest since 1 April:

Jairo Ortiz, 19, killed on 6 April in Miranda state. According to Venezuela's Interior Ministry, Mr Ortiz was not taking part in anti-government protests when he was shot dead. A police officer has been arrested in connection with the shooting.

Daniel Queliz, 20, killed on 10 April in Valencia state. Shot in the neck during an anti-government protest.

Brayan Principal, 14, killed on 11 April in Lara state. Shot in the abdomen during anti-government protests in the city of Barquisimeto.

Miguel Ángel Colmenares, 36, killed on 12 April in Lara state. Shot 11 times, witnesses said he was targeted by "colectivos", pro-government militant grassroots groups.

Gruseny Antonio Canelón, 32, died on 13 April after being shot during a anti-government protests in Lara state.

Carlos José Moreno, 17, shot in the head on 19 April in the centre of Caracas near an opposition demonstration. Was on his way to play football, his brother said.

Paola Ramírez, 23, shot on 19 April near an anti-government demonstration in Táchira state. Witnesses said "colectivos" were to blame, while the interior minister blamed an opposition party.

Neomar San Clemente, 28, sergeant in the National Guard, officials said he was killed by a "sharpshooter" during an anti-government protest near Caracas on 19 April.

Melvin Fernando Guittian, 26, shot in the stomach as he was returning to his home amid anti-government protests on 20 April.

Almelina Carrillo, 47, died on 23 April after being hit by a bottle of frozen water during a pro-government march on 19 April in Caracas.

Eleven people died in the El Valle area of Caracas between Thursday 20 and Friday 21 April, many of them were electrocuted when a bakery was looted

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A woman who was injured during a pro-government march in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, has died, ombudsman Tarek Saab said on Sunday. The 47-year-old woman was hit by a bottle of frozen water thrown from a building at government supporters, Mr Saab tweeted [in Spanish].

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In an announcement shocking only because of its timing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. confirmed on Tuesday morning that the current Monster Energy Cup NASCAR Series season will be his last as a driver. The two-time Daytona 500 winner, 14-time Most Popular Driver and newlywed will discuss his decision to retire at age 42 this afternoon at 3 p.m. with team owner Rick Hendrick at Hendrick Motorsports in Concord, North Carolina.

The fact that Earnhardt is retiring at a relatively young age doesn't come as a complete shock. Although he insists he still loves driving race cars and looks forward to the weekly competition, he's never come across as someone who must have racing to make his life complete. (Certainly, not to the extent that his late father, seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt, did).

"Junior" missed the second half of last season while undergoing arduous treatment for repeated concussions. He also missed two late-season races in 2012 for treatment of concussions and has said as recently as February in Daytona Beach that he'd never want to go through that ordeal again. He also said he'd likely walk away from the sport on the spot if he happened to win the 2017 championship.

But this season's first eight races have been especially difficult. He crashed out at Daytona Beach, Martinsville, and Bristol, finishing in the 30's in each one. He finished five laps down in 30th at Atlanta, and finished in the teens at Las Vegas and Phoenix. His only top-10 finishes were sixth at Fontana and fifth at Fort Worth. He's led only eight laps and is currently 24th in points.

Earnhardt made his Cup debut - amidst, some might say, utterly unrealistic expectations - in the 1999 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He goes into this weekend's race at Richmond with 13 Cup poles and 26 victories in 603 starts, and has qualified for the Chase/Playoffs eight times. He's finished seven times among the top 10 in championship points, including a career-best third in 2003. His most recent victory was the 2015 fall race at Phoenix, 27 races ago.

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In an announcement shocking only because of its timing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. confirmed on Tuesday morning that the current Monster Energy Cup NASCAR Series season will be his last as a driver. The two-time Daytona 500 winner, 14-time Most Popular Driver and newlywed will discuss his decision to retire at age 42 this afternoon at 3 p.m.

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Mr. Kohl- A man tried to lure an 11 yr old into his truck yesterday in Overland Park, Ks. The man asked her to help him find his lost dog. She refused and fled.

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Mr. Kohl- A man tried to lure an 11 yr old into his truck yesterday in Overland Park, Ks. The man asked her to help him find his lost dog. She refused and fled.

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