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Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Republican presidential contender, told Orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn, N.Y., that he was "not an isolationist" but that it had been a "mistake" for the United States to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and that the situation in Libya had deteriorated because of the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi.

Frazier Glenn Miller, 74, a white supremacist from Missouri accused of killing three people at two Jewish centers in Kansas, told The Associated Press in a phone call from jail that he plans to plead guilty to capital murder to avoid a lengthy trial because of his failing health.

James Ishmael, a judge in Lexington, Ky., ruled in favor of Hands On Originals, a shop that refused to print gay pride festival T-shirts, and overturned a decision by the city's Human Rights Commission that the shop violated a city law that bans discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.

Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, spent most of an afternoon as potential juror No. 15 during selection for a domestic violence case in Austin but was excused after nearly three hours.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., cited last year's videotaped death of Eric Garner in a police chokehold as he announced that he's sponsoring a bill that would make the maneuver a federal crime.

Mitch Landrieu, the Democratic mayor of New Orleans, officially ruled out a run for governor in the October election.

Shanna Peeples, a high school English teacher in Amarillo, Texas, who works with students facing poverty and traumas related to their immigration to the United States, was named the 2015 National Teacher of the Year by the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Jon Tigar, a federal judge, refused to delay his order for California to provide sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate, Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, 51, whose birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy.

President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan was declared to have been re-elected, winning 94 percent of the vote in balloting that was boycotted by opposition groups and marred by low turnout and public apathy.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, 74, who has governed Kazakhstan since the Soviet Union collapsed, won his fifth successive term in a snap presidential election with 97.7 percent of the vote, election officials announced.

A Section on 04/28/2015

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