10 things you need to know today: April 27, 2016

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1. Trump sweeps all 5 Northeast primaries
2. Clinton wins 4 of 5 Tuesday primaries
3. Belgium hands over Paris attack suspect to France
4. Apple reports first-ever quarterly drop in iPhone sales
5. Coalition airstrikes destroy ISIS cash stockpiles
6. Judge says Trump University suit can go to trial
7. White House briefly locked down after suspect jumps fence
8. U.S. embassy in Turkey warns of terrorist threats against tourists
9. Mainstream Democrats win two key Senate primaries
10. Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel indicted on assault charge

published 27 April 2016

1. Trump sweeps all 5 Northeast primaries

Donald Trump won Republican primaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island on Tuesday, bolstering his dominance of the race for the party's presidential nomination. Trump's wins came as his rivals, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, work together to stop Trump by steering supporters to one another in key states. Trump said the Tuesday wins made him the GOP's "presumptive nominee."

Hillary Clinton inched closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday with primary wins in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware. Her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, won in Rhode Island. Clinton was poised to win most of the 189 pledged delegates in Pennsylvania, the day's biggest prize, putting her closer to sealing the nomination. Sanders said he will stay in the race to the end and enter the party's convention with enough delegates "to fight for a progressive party platform."

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Belgium has extradited Paris terror-attack suspect Salah Abdeslam to France, French and Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday. Abdeslam, 26, was captured in Belgium on March 18 after a four-month manhunt. He is believed to be the only participant to have survived the November 2015 attacks by Islamist extremists that killed 130 people in Paris. Investigators believe he was supposed to detonate a suicide bomb but backed out. A high-profile French lawyer, Frank Berton, said he was leading Abdeslam's defense team, and that Abdeslam "has things to say."

Apple on Tuesday announced its first-ever quarterly decline in iPhone sales, as well as its first decline in revenue in more than a decade. Apple sold 51.2 million iPhones, narrowly beating analysts' expectations, but far below the 61.2 million iPhones Apple sold in the same quarter last year. The decline was due largely to the saturation of the market for smartphones. The company's shares dropped by about 8 percent on the news, falling below $100 per share for the first time since February.

Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition have destroyed up to $800 million in Islamic State cash stockpiles, Air Force Maj. Gen Peter Gersten, who is based in Baghdad, said on Tuesday. The U.S. has been targeting places where ISIS keeps its money in an attempt to erode the Islamist extremist group's capabilities. Gersten estimated that $150 million had been destroyed in a strike on a single house in Mosul, Iraq. He said the effort had "fractured" ISIS, helping to sharply reduce its recruiting of foreign fighters.

A New York judge ruled Tuesday that the state attorney general's fraud lawsuit against GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his now-defunct Trump University can go to trial. The two sides could not reach a settlement. Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says Trump's for-profit investment school defrauded students out of millions, and Trump could be one of the "essential witnesses" at the trial. Trump says the school got strong reviews from students.

The White House was locked down for half an hour on Tuesday after a man jumped over a fence around the compound, the Secret Service said. The suspect allegedly was fleeing after stealing a purse nearby. The incident occurred outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, also known as the Old Executive Office Building. Authorities said the man did not appear to know the fence he was jumping protected part of the White House complex.

The U.S. embassy in Turkey on Tuesday warned American citizens of "credible" terrorist threats against tourists in the country. Turkey has been hit with four major suicide bombings this year, two blamed on the Islamic State and two on Kurdish militants. "The U.S. government continues to receive credible indications that terrorist groups are seeking opportunities to attack popular tourist destinations throughout Turkey," the embassy in Ankara said in a statement emailed to Americans.

Democratic establishment candidates notched two big wins on Tuesday, defeating insurgent rivals in Senate primaries in Maryland and Pennsylvania. With the help of mainstream endorsements and big funding, Rep. Chris Van Hollen beat Rep. Donna Edwards in the race to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski. In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty, who benefited from Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ads, beat Joe Sestak.

Former Cleveland Browns quarterback and 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, 23, was indicted by a Texas grand jury Tuesday on a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley's domestic violence complaint. Crowley says Manziel grabbed her by the hair and hit her on the head during an argument over another woman on Jan. 30, rupturing her left eardrum and causing her to temporarily lose hearing. Manziel has denied hitting Crowley. His attorney said he would "certainly plead 'not guilty.'"

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