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10 Things to Know for Tuesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

1. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPREAD ACROSS NEW YORK IN FINAL CHASE FOR VOTES

The pre-election drama plays out from a car wash in Queens to a hockey arena in Buffalo.

2. CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES EXPRESS SHARP SKEPTICISM ABOUT OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION PLAN

The administration is asking the seemingly divided Supreme Court to allow it to put in place programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation.

3. AP WINS PULITZER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

The award recognizes the news agency's investigation of the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables - stories that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers.

4. HOW US IS RAMPING UP AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE

The Pentagon agrees to deploy 200 additional troops and send eight Apache helicopters into the fight in Iraq.

5. UNLIKELY SURVIVORS PULLED FROM RUBBLE

Rescuers in Ecuador find three people alive who were trapped for more than 32 hours in the debris of a shopping center flattened by the weekend's earthquake.

6. WHERE HEAVY RAIN IS WREAKING HAVOC

In Houston, scores of subdivisions and parts of several interstate highways are submerged by floodwaters.

7. RARE SHOUTING MATCH AT UN

The Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors engage in a heated exchange, each accusing the other side of fostering violence and unrest.

8. WHY ASTEROID ONLY PART OF REASON FOR DINOSAURS' EXTINCTION

Dinosaurs were in decline long before the asteroid strike that is blamed for their demise about 66 million years ago, a study finds.

9. 'EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND' ACTRESS DIES AT 90

Doris Roberts starred as the meddlesome mother to Ray Romano's character on the long-running CBS sitcom.

10. WHOSE RUNNERS ARE FASTEST AT BOSTON MARATHON

Ethiopians win the men's and women's races for the first time - and take five of the six spots on the victory stand.

A mourner is revived with spalashes of water, before family members head to a nearby cemetery to bury their loved ones who were victims of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, in Portoviejo, Ecuador, Monday, April 18, 2016. The Saturday night quake left a trail of ruin along Ecuador’s normally placid Pacific Ocean coast. At least 350 people died and thousands are homeless. President Rafael Correa said early Monday that the death toll would “surely rise, and in a considerable way.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) The Associated Press
FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2003 file photo, actress Doris Roberts poses by her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a ceremony in Los Angeles. Family spokeswoman said Monday, April 18, 2016, that Roberts died overnight Sunday in her sleep in Los Angeles. She was 90. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) The Associated Press
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