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Top News In Taking Crimea, Putin Gains a Sea of Fuel Reserves By WILLIAM J. BROAD Russia acquired not just a peninsula, but a maritime zone and the rights to tap its seabed for oil and gas reserves potentially worth trillions of dollars. Inquiry by General Motors Is Said to Focus on Its Lawyers By BILL VLASIC A review of internal communication shows that high-ranking officials, particularly in G.M.'s legal department, acted with increasing urgency in the last 12 months to grapple with the spreading impact of defective ignition switches. Deep Ties, Tested on Mexico's Border By DAMIEN CAVE Laredo, Tex., along the Mexican border, where Interstate 35 begins its path, faces extreme challenges to meld two cultures, an evolution occurring in cities and towns nationwide. For more top news, go to NYTimes.com »

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Editors' Picks MULTIMEDIA | LENS BLOG Bridging the Racial Divide in Tuscaloosa Schools By AMANDA ZAMORA Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation, many schools remain divided by race. A ProPublica project in Tuscaloosa, Ala., had teenagers document the realities of resegregated schools. OPINION Always Hungry? Here's Why By DAVID S. LUDWIG and MARK I FRIEDMAN Are we fat because we overeat, or do we overeat because we're fat?

QUOTATION OF THE DAY "The history of the U.S. until maybe the last generation or two was an east-to-west migration. Now, it's south to north, and it's on the highways." ROBERT WUTHNOW, a sociologist at Princeton University who grew up in Kansas, describing the movement of Mexican immigrants traveling north on Interstate 35.

Today's Video  VIDEO: A Restoration Puzzle In China's Yungang grottoes, a team is battling to restore ancient Buddhist artifacts broken by vandals and ravaged by pollution.  Related Article  VIDEO: Ask Well: Downsides of Taking Truvada? Readers asked Well about the preventative drug Truvada following a C.D.C. recommendation that all Americans at risk for H.I.V. take this daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection.  VIDEO: Bill Cunningham | Turning Heads The fashion note at the Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy "hat luncheon" was a one-piece fitted dress with a full skirt, replacing the suit. For more video, go to NYTimes.com/Video »

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World Outlasting Dynasties, Now Emerging From Soot By EDWARD WONG Chinese officials and preservationists have embarked on an ambitious effort to protect historic sites that could become a model for saving antiquities elsewhere.    Video: A Restoration Puzzle West African Nations Set Aside Their Old Suspicions to Combat Boko Haram By MAÏA de la BAUME and ALISSA J. RUBIN The leaders of five West African countries, including Nigeria, met Saturday with Western officials and agreed to cooperate in combating the extremist Islamist group. As Turkish Mine Yields the Last Body, Recriminations Remain By KAREEM FAHIM and SEBNEM ARSU The death toll in Turkey's worst mining accident rose to 301 people, as final recovery efforts were hampered by a fire and a gas leak.  Outrage Casts Harsh Light on Premier For more world news, go to NYTimes.com/World »

U.S. Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm By JENNIFER MEDINA Critics say "trigger warnings" would undermine academic freedom and stifle discourse, but proponents say it is common sense to alert students who may have trauma in their pasts. Poorer Health of Surgery Patients on Medicaid May Alter Law's Bottom Line By ROBERT PEAR A new study has found that, compared with patients who have private insurance, those on the government health plan arrive in worse shape, suffer more complications and stay longer in the hospital. Arizona's All-Points Bulletin: Who Can Take in a Chihuahua? By FERNANDA SANTOS The popular breed is overpopulating areas where spaying and neutering are not embraced, and groups are getting creative to find homes for the dogs. For more U.S. news, go to NYTimes.com/US »

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Business DEALBOOK AT&T Said Near a Deal to Buy DirecTV By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED AT&T is poised to announce a takeover of DirecTV Inc. within days, people briefed on the matter said on Saturday, ushering in another sweeping transformation of the telecommunications industry. YOU FOR SALE Never Forgetting a Face By NATASHA SINGER Joseph Atick, a pioneer of facial-recognition systems, is now cautioning against their unfettered use. Never, he says, should they undermine anyone's choice to remain anonymous. In B-School, Is That a Syllabus, or an Itinerary? By HANNAH SELIGSON Group travel and social events are taking a bigger share of M.B.A. students time - and money. For more business news, go to NYTimes.com/Business »

Sports California Chrome Wins Preakness for Second Jewel By JOE DRAPE The Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome added a victory in the Preakness Stakes, keeping alive his bid to become the 12th Triple Crown winner and the first since Affirmed in 1978.  Top Horse, From a Place Winners Aren't Made A Long-Shared Love of Racing and a Champion By MELISSA HOPPERT Carolyn Coburn helped develop her husband's interest in horse racing before they got married and became part of the ownership group of California Chrome, the Kentucky Derby winner. RANGERS 7, CANADIENS 2 An Impenetrable Fortress Proves Porous as the Rangers Take Game 1 By JEFF Z. KLEIN The Rangers, who had lost 9 of their previous 10 games at the Bell Centre in Montreal, crushed a sluggish Canadiens team, 7-2, in the opener of the Eastern Conference finals.  Box Score  Slap Shot: A Rangers Forward Amazes an Economist For more sports news, go to NYTimes.com/Sports »

Arts It Will Have Blood (Mud, Too) By SARAH LYALL Kenneth Branagh, who stars in and jointly directs a stage production of "Macbeth," discusses its genesis on the eve of its New York opening at the Armory. Happy in a World of Quirk By DAVE ITZKOFF Mike Myers is making his directorial debut with the documentary "Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon," about a talent manager. Rearranging Warhol's Legacy By BLAKE GOPNIK The reorganized Andy Warhol Museum dedicates as much attention to Warhol's role in pop culture as it does to his celebrated art. For more arts news, go to NYTimes.com/Arts »

Magazine Who Gets to Graduate? By PAUL TOUGH Rich students complete their college degrees; working-class students like Vanessa Brewer usually don't. Can the University of Texas change her chances of success? Jane Kleeb vs. the Keystone Pipeline By SAUL ELBEIN An environmental activist has organized an unlikely group to protest the project: Nebraska ranchers and farmers. A Spot of Tea Party? By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT The U.K. Independence Party, led by Nigel Farage, is gaining traction. If only they could get the racist extremists among them to pipe down. For more from the Sunday magazine, go to NYTimes.com/Magazine »

Obituaries David Balding, Producer Who Adopted an Elephant, Dies at 75 By BRUCE WEBER Mr. Balding staged Broadway and Off Broadway plays but may have been best known for Circus Flora, which starred an orphaned baby African elephant.