The Hokulea sailing canoe is seen off Honolulu on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. The Polynesian voyaging canoe is setting off on a 3-year voyage around the world, navigating using no modern instrumentation.Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
- AP EXCLUSIVE: NUKE SECURITY FAILED CRUCIAL DRILL
Armed security forces at a Montana missile base were unable to regain control of a nuclear weapon in a simulation of a hostile takeover of the launch silo.
- IN NYC JAIL, UNINTENDED DEATH SENTENCES
Experts say Bradley Ballard’s death after seven days in Rikers Island jail is only the latest example of how poorly equipped the city’s jail system is to handle the mentally ill, coming five months before another inmate suffocated in an overheated cell.
- MARKETPLACE BOMBING KILLS 31 IN RESTIVE CHINESE REGION
The latest act of violence in Xinjiang involved two SUVs loaded with explosives that plowed through shoppers in a busy street.
4.ALMOST HALF OF AMERICANS INDIFFERENT ABOUT MIDTERM VOTE