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4 people were killed and 20 others injured at the British Parliament in London Wednesday. A knife-wielding man mowed down pedestrians in an SUV on Westminster Bridge before stabbing an armed police officer to death inside the gates of the parliament building. Police said they are treating the attacks as a terrorist incident.

An Associated Press investigation found President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interest of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Manafort confirmed his employment but said the work was being unfairly cast as inappropriate.

California GOP Congressman Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said President Trump's communications may have been monitored during the transition period as part of a "incidental collection". He said the communications do not appear to be correlated to the ongoing FBI investigation into Trump associates' contacts with Russia.

In Jerusalem, and just in time for Easter, the tomb of Jesus has been resurrected to its former glory. A Greek reservation team completed a historic renovation of the shrine that tradition says houses the cave where Jesus was entombed and resurrected.

Noreen Nasir, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.