In this photo taken Wednesday, April 1, 2020, desert locusts sit on vegetation in Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, in Isiolo county, Kenya. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years, and now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving. (Sven Torfinn/FAO via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that are being talked about today:
1. BARR SAY RUSSIA PROBE STARTED '~WITHOUT BASIS' - Attorney General William Barr believes the Russia investigation that shadowed President Donald Trump for the first two years of his administration was started without any basis.
2. PLAN TO CONTAIN OIL PRICES CRASH TAKES SHAPE - OPEC nations including Russia agree to boost oil prices by cutting as much as 10 million barrels a day in production.
3. NEW, LARGER WAVE OF LOCUSTS THREATEN MILLIONS IN AFRICA - A second wave of young desert locusts, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving in Africa. Billions of the voracious insects are winging in from breeding grounds in Somalia.
4. TEXAS FREEWAY CRASH - Two women were killed after a series of crashes on a Houston freeway. Two young children survived, as did a man who jumped off an overpass to avoid an oncoming tractor-trailer.
5. CELLPHONE-PRISON SENTENCE - A Mississippi lawyer says he's going to the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping to overturn the 12-year prison sentence given to an African American man who took his mobile phone into a jail cell.
In this photo taken Tuesday, March 31, 2020, desert locusts swarm over a tree in Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, in Isiolo county, Kenya. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years, and now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving. (Sven Torfinn/FAO via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, file photo, a flame burns at the Shell Deer Park oil refinery in Deer Park, Texas. Oil prices are plunging Sunday, March 8, 2020, amid worries that an OPEC dispute will lead a virus-weakened economy to be awash in an oversupply of crude. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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