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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote address during the Facebook F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco in 2015.(Photo: AP)
[h=2][/h][h=2]Facebook kicks off F8 conference[/h]Facebook opens the F8 developers conference Tuesday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The social network's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>global ambitions are as huge as its audience of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>1.6 billion people: digitally<span style="color: Red;">*</span>connect the service around the world, especially in poor<span style="color: Red;">*</span>countries.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Some 2,600<span style="color: Red;">*</span>developers, including one-third from outside the U.S., are making the journey to the conference's seventh gathering.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>At F8, to be held at San Francisco's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Fort Mason Center, the Silicon Valley-based company is pursuing the next digital frontier with a palette of products. Developers and analysts expect the rise of Messenger as Facebook's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>next major platform and plenty of tech goodies in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>artificial intelligence, connectivity, virtual reality and augmented reality.
[h=2]PM's departure clears way for new government in Ukraine[/h]The struggling nation of Ukraine could see a new governing coalition Tuesday with the formal departure of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who resigned under pressure Sunday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Yatsenyuk's government has been besieged by war, corruption and economic struggles since it took over in 2014, when<span style="color: Red;">*</span>massive protests drove pro-Russia President<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Viktor Yanukovych<span style="color: Red;">*</span>from power.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The Obama administration has expressed support for $1 billion in loan guarantees to the former Soviet-bloc nation once a new government is formed.
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Ukraine's president called for Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's resignation in February. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
[h=2]Vin Scully kicks off his final season as voice of the Dodgers[/h]For nearly seven decades, Dodgers fans have listened to Vin Scully announce the play-by-play<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at home games. The end of that era begins Tuesday, when Scully begins his 67th and final season as the Los Angeles Dodgers' broadcaster when the team takes on the Arizona Diamondbacks in their home opener. The accolades and tributes for Scully have already begun, including the renaming of the road that leads to the main entrance of Dodgers Stadium: Vin Scully Avenue. USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale breaks down why Scully and his voice have become the stuff of sports legend.
[h=2]<span style="color: Red;">*</span>[/h][h=2]Border Patrol union members to fight Trump endorsement[/h]Members of the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>U.S. Border Patrol union in El Paso on Tuesday will ask their union local<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>disavow<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the National Border Patrol Council's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>endorsement of presidential candidate Donald Trump.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>More than 20 elected officials, education<span style="color: Red;">*</span>groups<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and community leaders in El Paso and southern New Mexico are supporting<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the move by some members of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Local 1929<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to reject the union's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>national endorsement of Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and take a neutral stance in the presidential election. The issue will be raised at Local 1929's regularly scheduled membership meeting.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo in July 2015.ublican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks after arriving at the airport for a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, on July 23.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: LM Otero, AP)
[h=2]Happy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Equal Pay Day[/h]It’s Equal Pay Day, the date that symbolizes how far into the year the National Committee on Pay Equity says<span style="color: Red;">*</span>women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The non-holiday is commemorated annually with protests, Twitter storms and sassy 21% off discounts to compensate for the fact that, on average, women make $0.79 for every dollar men make.
[h=2]<span style="color: Red;">*</span>[/h][h=2]Bonus: Time to get your Gwyneth-inspired cooking on[/h]Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook It’s All Easy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>goes on sale Tuesday. The actress offers “Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook.” It also<span style="color: Red;">*</span>seems to be celebrity cookbook day: Questlove’s somethingtofoodabout: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs<span style="color: Red;">*</span> also hits stores.
How "Easy" is it?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Ditte Isager)
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Stocks: U.S. stock futures inched higher Tuesday.
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