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In this February 18, 2016 handout photo provided by TED Microsoft inventor Alex Kipman demonstrates HoloLens device at TED2016-Dream at the Convention Center in Vancouver.(Photo: BRET HARTMAN, AFP/Getty Images)
Microsoft's augmented reality glasses ship as Build 2016 begins
Microsoft hopes to make a splash Wednesday when it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>begins shipping its $3,000 HoloLens<span style="color: Red;">*</span>augmented reality glasses. Unlike its virtual reality competition,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>HoloLens can project holographic images<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to the wearer without blocking out the real world. Microsoft launches the product as Build 2016 kicks off in San Francisco<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>an annual week-long<span style="color: Red;">*</span>developer conference that lays out the company’s software plans for the year.
Turkish<span style="color: Red;">*</span>president makes trip to Washington
Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s visit Wednesday to Washington comes at an awkward time for U.S.-Turkey relations. While he will meet with Vice President Biden, he won't have a formal visit with President Obama<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— and it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>isn’t going unnoticed. The White House said it's because Obama's time is limited, but analysts detect a snub<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reflecting U.S. discomfort with Erdogan’s crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey. As unrest grows<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Turkey, the Pentagon ordered<span style="color: Red;">*</span>U.S. military members<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to evacuate Tuesday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Erdogan will open an Islamic cultural center in Lantham, Md.,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on Wednesday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and later attend the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford's funeral
Toronto says goodbye Wednesday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to its<span style="color: Red;">*</span>former mayor Rob Ford, who died March 22<span style="color: Red;">*</span>after a two-year battle with a rare cancer. Ford, 46, served as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>mayor from 2010 to 2014, when he was stripped of his duties<span style="color: Red;">*</span>following a string of controversies<span style="color: Red;">*</span>– including public intoxication,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>his admitted crack cocaine use and an incoherent<span style="color: Red;">*</span>rant caught on video. <span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ford’s funeral procession will begin at 10:30 a.m. ET and conclude with a service at St. James Cathedral at noon.
Texas to execute<span style="color: Red;">*</span>dad who killed kids for revenge
John Battaglia, the man who killed his daughters to get back at his ex-wife, is scheduled to be<span style="color: Red;">*</span>executed by lethal injection Wednesday. Battaglia, seeking revenge after his ex-wife went to police reporting he harassed her, called her during a May 2001 visit with their young daughters and shot them both in his Dallas apartment as their mother listened on the phone.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The 60-year-old man will be the sixth inmate executed this year in Texas and the 10th inmate executed nationally.
Liberty and Faith Battaglia were shot and killed by their father on May 2, 2001.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Submitted)
Caitlyn Jenner to play in all women's golf tournament
Caitlyn Jenner<span style="color: Red;">*</span>will take part in the ANA Inspiration Pro-Am, a women's golf tournament Wednesday. The announcement comes after Jenner, whose gender transition was one of the biggest stories of 2015, was barred from an all men's tournament earlier this month. Jenner tees off at 7 a.m. PT at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. She<span style="color: Red;">*</span>will play alongside fellow celebrity amateur and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>women's soccer legend<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Abby Wambach.
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Weather:<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>A storm will roar across much of the central U.S. on Wednesday, with snow in the northern Plains and severe storms in the Midwest and South.
Stocks: U.S. stock futures were higher Wednesday.
TV Tonight:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Wondering<span style="color: Red;">*</span>what to watch tonight?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>TV critic Robert Bianco looks at<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Nature, Rosewood<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Empire.
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