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5 things to know today - that aren't about the virus

Your daily look at late-breaking news and stories that are being talked about:

1. SPACE STATION CREW LANDS IN KAZAKHSTAN

An International Space Station crew has landed safely in Kazakhstan after more than 200 days in space.

2. ANXIETY REMAINS HIGH 25 YEARS AFTER OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

Ordinarily, survivors and victims' families would gather Sunday at the memorial where the Alfred P. Murrah Building once stood to pay tribute to the lives that were lost in the Oklahoma City bombing 25 years ago, but these are not ordinary times.

3. SKOREAN COURT TO RE-OPEN CASE ON ABUSIVE VAGRANT FACILITY

South Korea's Supreme Court says it will re-open a case related to the enslavement and abuse of thousands of people at a vagrants' facility in the 1970s and 1980s.

4. JERRY GIVENS DIES - Jerry Givens, who served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before going to prison and becoming a prominent voice against capital punishment, has died. He was 67.

5. FDA APPROVES NEW BREAST CANCER DRUG - U.S. regulators approve a new drug for an aggressive type of breast cancer that's spread in the body - including into the brain, where it's especially tough to treat.

FILE - In this April 19, 1995, file photo, the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is missing after a vehicle bombing which killed 168 people. The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum has scaled back its plans for a 25th anniversary remembrance amid the coronavirus outbreak and will instead offer a recorded, one-hour television program that includes the reading of the names of the 168 people killed in the bombing followed by 168 seconds of silence. (AP Photo, File) The Associated Press
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2016, file photo, residents exercise as at a school near the former location of the Brothers Home, a mountainside institution where some of the worst human rights atrocities in modern South Korean history took place, in Busan, South Korea. South Korea's Supreme Court said Friday, April 17, 2020, it will re-open a case related to the enslavement and abuse of thousands of people at a vagrants' facility in the 1970s and 1980s, more than three decades after its owner was acquitted of serious charges. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File) The Associated Press
Russia-backed separatists war prisoners wearing masks to protect against coronavirus walk during a prisoner exchange, near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 16, 2020. Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have begun exchanging prisoners in a move aimed at ending their five-year-long war. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) The Associated Press
This photo provided by Seattle Genetics Inc., shows the breast cancer drug Tukysa, developed by Seattle Genetics. U.S. regulators on Thursday, April 14, 2020, approved the new drug for an aggressive type of breast cancer that's spread in the body, including into the brain, where it's especially tough to treat. (Seattle Genetics via AP) The Associated Press
This Jan. 15, 2013 file photo shows Virginia's former chief executioner Jerry Givens in Richmond, Va. Givens, who served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before going to prison and becoming a prominent voice against capital punishment has died. Jerry Givens was 67. His son, Terence Travers, says Givens died Monday, April 13, 2020 in Henrico, which is outside of Richmond. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via AP) The Associated Press
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