Here is a news article: Josh Groban couldn’t help but tease Mariah Carey after her disaster of a performance on New Year’s Eve.

 After Carey was the victim of technical difficulties and looked visibly annoyed during her performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, Groban decided to send out a tweet teasing the singer.

 “Any time one of the greatest voices of my generation lip syncs, an angel loses its wings,” Groban joked in the since-deleted tweet according to PEOPLE.

 Shortly after he deleted the tweet, Groban decided to explain his actions to fans on Twitter.

 Deleted my tweets about a certain performance because it was made in humor but taken way more meanly than intended. Not out to diss artists. — josh groban (@joshgroban) January 1, 2017

 “Deleted my tweets about a certain performance because it was made in humor but taken way more meanly than intended,” Groban wrote. “Not out to diss artists.”

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 Carey didn’t let the flub keep her down, however. On Sunday, the ultimate diva tweeted in response to all of the buzzing about her show.

 “Shit happens Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here’s to making more headlines in 2017 ,” she wrote. ||||| Mariah Carey's Manager & Dick Clark Productions Butt Heads on Troubled New Year's Eve Performance

 Following Mariah Carey's troubled performance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, the singer's manager, Stella Bulochnikov, has issued a statement to Billboard.

 Carey's headlining set, leading up to midnight, went downhill when she got to “Emotions" and “We Belong Together," during which she said she could not hear through her in-ear monitors.

 "We told them [the stage managers] that the in-ears were not working 10 minutes before the performance," Bulochnikov says. "They then changed the battery pack, and they were still not working on the frequency four minutes before the show. We let them know again, and they just kept counting her down and reassuring her that they will work as soon as they go live, which never happened -- at which point she pulled them out but could not hear the music over the crowd."

 She continues: "After the show, I called [Dick Clark Productions'] Mark Shimmel and I said, 'What the f--- happened?' He said, 'Let me call you back,' then called me back and confirmed the in-ears were not working and asked if I would make a joint statement. I said, 'No way.' I asked him to cut the West Coast feed. He said he could not do that. I asked him why would they want to run a performance with mechanical glitches unless they just want eyeballs at any expense ... It's not artist friendly, especially when the artist cut her vacation short as a New Year's Eve gift to them." (A source on the DCP side denies that this conversation ever happened.)

 BWR-PR's Nicole Perna, a rep for Carey, previously told Billboard that "production set her up to fail." But a production source told Billboard that Carey "had ample time to rehearse and chose not to," instead using a body double to rehearse in her place earlier in the day and that at the time, "all was working" on the technical side.

 Dick Clark Productions also provided a statement Sunday evening (Jan. 1), refuting the claims from Carey's camp:

 "As the premier producer of live television events for nearly 50 years, we pride ourselves on our reputation and long-standing relationships with artists. To suggest that dcp, as producer of music shows including the American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and Academy of Country Music Awards, would ever intentionally compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd. In very rare instances there are of course technical errors that can occur with live television, however, an initial investigation has indicated that dcp had no involvement in the challenges associated with Ms. Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance. We want to be clear that we have the utmost respect for Ms. Carey as an artist and acknowledge her tremendous accomplishments in the industry."

 So what happened and who is to blame? Billboard has spoken with multiple sources involved with the show and one indisputable fact is that there was an issue with Carey's in-ears. According to two insiders, the audio feed was "set to the wrong frequency." Both sources say the fault was on Carey's tech team, which seems to support repeated claims by DCP that all was functioning properly on the show production end.

 Could the show have cut to commercial, or to host Ryan Seacrest while the sound issues were worked out? Maybe, but such a proposition is tricky when the artist is two minutes into a six-minute performance, says a source. As for cutting the performance from the west coast broadcast, a backup segment would have had to be ready and Billboard has not yet been able to ascertain whether such a clip existed.

 Reporting by Adelle Platon and Shirley Halperin. ||||| Mariah Carey's Rep Says 'Rockin' Eve' Producers 'Set Her Up to Fail'

 But a 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' source refutes the singer's claims.

 Mariah Carey’s troubled performance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest has left many people asking the question: What happened?

 The singer’s three-song set began promising enough with “Auld Lang Syne,” but went downhill with “Emotion” and “We Belong Together.” Carey claimed during the latter that she couldn’t hear through her monitors. The situation quickly devolved in front of 1 million revelers and a worldwide television audience on ABC.

 Carey took the evening’s performance seriously, rehearsing the night before the show for three hours, according to her representatives. She then rehearsed at 3 p.m. on New Year’s Eve with “no sound issues.”

 “She was not ‘winging’ this moment and took it very seriously,” BWR-PR's Nicole Perna tells Billboard. “A shame that production set her up to fail.”

 The rep says Carey alerted production and the stage managers that her ear piece was not working. “They told her it would be fine once she was on stage,” she says. “However, that was not the case and they were again told that her ear piece was not working. Instead of endeavoring to fix the issue so that Mariah could perform, they went live.”

 Carey was intent on honoring her commitment and therefore took the stage, essentially “flying blind,” the rep continues. As for singing to a track, “it is not uncommon for artists to sing to track during certain live performances.”

 Adds the rep, “Any allegations that she planned to lip sync are just adding insult to injury.”

 But a production source paints a different picture, telling Billboard that Carey, "Had ample time to rehearse and chose not to." The insider adds that Carey used a body double to rehearse in her place earlier on New Year's Eve day and that, even though the singer did not do a vocal run-through, "all was working" on the technical side.

 "The music was provided by her team, there were no fewer than eight audio monitor wedges in front of her and the dancers had no problem syncing up to the music."

 Speaking to the New York Times, audio producer Robert Goldstein of Maryland Sound International, which worked on the event, said, "Every monitor and in-ear device worked perfectly. I can’t comment beyond that and don’t know what her nontechnical issue may have been.”

 Any claim of sabotage for ratings, as TMZ alluded to in a story published New Year's Day, "Doesn't make sense," says the production source, emphasizing that Dick Clark Productions' foremost concern is the artist. "Why would they risk the reputation of a company that's been around since 1957?"

 Billboard has reached out to Perna and Carey's manager Stella Bulochnikov for further comment. |||||
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– The drama of 2016's final moments continues to spill into 2017 in the form of an ongoing battle over just went wrong with Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve performance. Carey herself tweeted "S--- happens" to fans, alongside a GIF of her shaking her head, after an appearance on ABC's New Year's Rockin' Eve that included bungled renditions of "Emotion" and "We Belong Together" in which the Carey sang only small portions of the songs as a pre-recorded track played in the background. Carey's rep tells Billboard that the singer took the performance "very seriously," so much so that she rehearsed for three hours on the 30th and again at 3pm on the big night, with no sound issues surfacing on either occasion. "A shame that production set her up to fail," rep Nicole Perna concludes. Carey's manager Stella Bulochnikov tells Billboard stage managers were alerted that the "in-ears" weren't working four minutes before showtime; reassurances the ear pieces would function once live were bogus so Carey "pulled them out but could not hear the music over the crowd." Bulochnikov suggests production "just want[ed] eyeballs at any expense." Dick Clark Productions swung back in a statement released to the AP Sunday night: "To suggest that dcp (Dick Clark Productions) ... would ever intentionally compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous, and frankly absurd." It said its initial investigation found no evidence of technical errors. An unnamed production source counters Perna's rehearsal claims, saying Carey used a body double during Saturday's rehearsal. (Josh Groban tweeted, then deleted, a diss about Carey.)


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– One of the two brothers who detonated a suicide bomb in Brussels on Monday was clearly worried about getting caught just prior to the attacks. Authorities revealed a note written by Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, that reads: "Being in a hurry, I don't know what to do, being searched for everywhere, not being safe. If it drags on it could end up with me in a prison cell next to him." The "him" is believed to refer to Salah Abdeslam, the suspected terrorist ringleader arrested last week, reports USA Today. The note was found on a computer that had been dumped into a street trash can outside an apartment building in Brussels, reports ABC News. A taxi driver led police to the building after realizing that he had driven El Bakraoui and two others to the airport on Monday morning. Also on Tuesday, authorities clarified some confusing earlier accounts of the investigation: They now say that Ibrahim El Bakraoui is the man seen in the middle of two others in a surveillance photo from the airport. On the left is a fellow suicide bomber, still unidentified, and on the right is another suspect, clad in white, who remains at large. Some media reports have identified him as Najim Laachraoui, who is suspected of paying a role in the Paris attacks, but authorities have not officially identified Laachraoui as a suspect in Brussels. Ibrahim El Bakraoui's brother, Khalid, 27, meanwhile, is accused of detonating a suicide bomb on the Brussels subway train. In another development, a Turkish official says Ibrahim El Bakraoui was arrested in June at the Turkey-Syria border and deported to the Netherlands. Turkey then warned both the Netherlands and Belgium that he was a "foreign terrorist fighter," reports AP.

Police and other emergency workers stand in front of the damaged Zaventem Airport terminal in Brussels on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the... (Associated Press)

 Police and other emergency workers stand in front of the damaged Zaventem Airport terminal in Brussels on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades, as the European Union's capital awoke under guard and with... (Associated Press)

 BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the attacks in Brussels and related investigations (all times local):

 6:30 p.m.

 An official in the Turkish president's office says the Brussels attacker who was deported from Turkey was Ibrahim El Bakraoui.

 The official corrected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's account, saying El Bakraoui, who was caught in June at the Turkish-Syrian border, was deported to the Netherlands in July, not Belgium.

 Turkey says it warned both Belgium and the Netherlands that he was a "foreign terrorist fighter."

 The official says Dutch authorities later allowed him to go free because Belgian authorities could not establish any ties to terrorism. The official cannot be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

 A Belgian prosecutor says El Bakraoui was a 29-year-old Belgian who blew himself up at the Brussels Airport on Tuesday.

 —Suzan Fraser in Ankara.

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 6:10 p.m.

 Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Brussels on Friday to discuss the deadly attacks with top Belgian and European officials.

 State Department spokesman John Kirby says Kerry will visit the Belgian capital to "formally express the condolences of the United States for the loss of life" in Tuesday's bombings at the Brussels airport and subway.

 He also will voice support for Belgian efforts to investigate the attacks and combat violent extremism.

 At least 34 people were killed, including three suicide bombers, and more than 270 were wounded in the attacks claimed by Islamic State extremists.

 Kerry is currently in Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin and other officials on Syria and Ukraine.

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 5:50 p.m.

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says one of the Brussels attackers was caught in Turkey in June and deported to Belgium.

 Erdogan says Wednesday that the Belgian authorities released the suspect despite Turkish warnings that he was "a foreign fighter."

 Erdogan did not name the attacker. He said the man was detained at Turkey's border with Syria at Gaziantep and that Turkey formally notified Belgian authorities of his deportation on July 14.

 Erdogan says "despite our warnings that this person was a foreign terrorist fighter, Belgium could not establish any links with terrorism."

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 5:35 p.m.

 Neighbors of two brothers who committed suicide attacks in Brussels are expressing shock and bewilderment at what happened.

 John Valderrama lived across the hall from the brothers in the Schaerbeek neighborhood, but says he never heard anything suspicious. He said he only saw one person come in or out of the fifth-floor apartment.

 He was surprised when hours after Tuesday's attack, police burst into the brothers' apartment, where they discovered a large cache of TATP explosives.

 Valderrama says "when I saw them I went 'Whoa!"

 Another neighbor, Erdine, said he was about to drive his son to school around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday when he saw two people carrying heavy bags out of the building.

 The 36-year-old, who declined to give his last name due to the situation, says he saw a cab driver open his trunk. He says "the taxi driver tried to get the luggage. And the other guy reached for it like he was saying, 'No, I'll take it.'"

 Prosecutors say the taxi driver tipped them off to the Schaerbeek address after the attacks.

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 5:20 p.m.

 A friendly soccer match between Belgium and Portugal next week has been moved to the Portuguese city of Leiria from Brussels because of the deadly attacks.

 The Belgian federation reached agreement with its Portuguese counterpart on Wednesday, hours after the Belgians called off the match.

 The match is still scheduled for next Tuesday, but not at King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels.

 At least 34 people were killed, including three suicide bombers, and more than 270 wounded in Tuesday's bombings at the Brussels airport and subway.

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 4:50 p.m.

 Poland's prime minister has urged European leaders to immediately open talks and find the means to end the "plague" of terrorism.

 Prime Minister Beata Szydlo spoke Wednesday at the Belgian Embassy in Warsaw, where she laid flowers to honor the victims of Tuesday's attacks in Brussels.

 Szydlo appealed for urgent talks that would allow Europe to "effectively counter this plague that is consuming Europe."

 She says "we must put an end to terrorism in Europe. We must not be afraid."

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 4:30 p.m.

 The U.S. House of Representatives in Washington has approved a resolution condemning the attacks in Brussels.

 The non-binding measure also pledges U.S. support for the Belgium government and declares that Islamic State militants pose a threat to freedom. The vote Wednesday was 409-0.

 The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bombing attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and a city subway that left 34 people dead, including three suicide bombers, and wounded 270.

 The resolution also expresses condolences to those affected by the attacks.

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 3:45 p.m.

 French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says one of the lessons learned from yet another attack in a European Union nation is that the bloc's 28 nations must heavily increase their investments in anti-terror measures.

 Valls told reporters "in the coming years, EU nations will have to invest massively in their security system." He spoke after meeting with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels.

 Valls mentioned specifically that more funds will be needed for "manpower, technology — to face the types of threats that we will have to face."

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 3:20 p.m.

 A top European Union official says the bloc's 28 nations need to cooperate better in sharing intelligence to counter the threat of religious extremism.

 Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU commissioner for migration and citizenship, was speaking Wednesday, a day after three bombings in Brussels killed 34 people including three suicide bombers and wounded 270 others.

 He says "it's a moment for all member states to start working together. To foster mutual trust, exchange information and intelligence, because this is the only way to go ahead."

 He said the EU's police cooperation agency, Europol, is the place to share intelligence in an attempt to foil attacks.

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 3:05 p.m.

 The German government has held a minute of silence for the victims of the Brussels attacks at the start of its weekly Cabinet meeting.

 The German Foreign Ministry also confirms that some of its citizens are among the over 270 people wounded in the Brussels attacks, including one seriously injured person. It did not elaborate.

 Explosions at the Brussels airport and a city subway center killed 34 people Tuesday, including three suicide bombers, and wounded over 270 people.

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 2:50 p.m.

 Dozens gathered for a moment of silence outside the European Commission, hoping to show solidarity with the victims of the Brussels attacks and be with their fellow citizens in a time of crisis.

 Among them was Alessandro Prister, 56, who works for Eurocontrol. He says Wednesday that he "felt it was my duty to show solidarity with all the victims" and to offer testament that this kind of attack should never happen again.

 Prister was saddened that such things could happen in Brussels and says "I couldn't be any other place today."

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 2:35 p.m.

 Belgium's chief prosecutor says investigators have found 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of TATP explosives at the house which the suspects in the Brussels attacks left from for the airport. Federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw says a cab driver who drove the three suspects to the airport led authorities to the house in Brussels. He says a special squad found the explosives inside the house, along with other chemicals that are commonly used to make bombs.

 Explosions on Tuesday at the Brussels airport and a city subway center killed 34 people, including three suicide bombers, and wounded over 270 people.

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 2:10 p.m.

 The Belgian prosecutor says two suspects in the bombings at the Brussels airport have still not yet been identified — one of them is a dead suicide bomber and the other is still on the loose.

 Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw, speaking about a surveillance photo showing three airport suspects, outlined what is known about them at a news conference Wednesday.

 Van Leeuw says the culprit in the middle, one of the two suicide bombers, was Ibrahim El Bakraoui, a 29-year-old Belgian born in Brussels. He said he was identified based on a fingerprint.

 He says the second suicide bomber, on the left in the picture, is not yet identified.

 The third suspect, who wore a pale coat and a dark hat in the right side of the picture, is also not yet identified and is being sought by police.

 That suspect took flight and left behind a big bag at the airport before the two explosions. Van Leeuw says that bag turned out to have the heaviest load of explosives of all and blew up later when the bomb squad was there due to the instability of the explosives. Van Leeuw says fortunately no one was injured.

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 1:40 p.m.

 Belgian authorities say several people possibly linked to deadly attacks on Brussels are still on the loose.

 Paul Van Tigchelt, head of Belgium's terrorism threat body, told reporters Wednesday that is why the country is keeping the terrorism threat level at its highest level, which means there is a danger of an imminent attack.

 He spoke alongside prosecutors who say they are searching for at least one person directly involved in the attack on Brussels airport.

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 1:30 p.m.

 A Belgian prosecutor says a suicide bomber who attacked the Brussels airport left a will on a computer found in a trash can in a Brussels neighborhood.

 Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw told reporters Wednesday that Ibrahim El Bakraoui blew himself up at the airport Tuesday in twin suicide bombings.

 Investigators raided the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek after the attacks and found a computer in a trash can on the street including a note from El Bakraoui saying he felt increasingly unsafe and feared landing in prison.

 The prosecutor also said one person detained in one of the raids remains in custody Wednesday and is under questioning.

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 1:25 p.m.

 A Belgian prosecutor has identified two of the attackers who targeted the Brussels airport and subway as brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui but says another unidentified attacker remains at large.

 Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw told reporters Wednesday that Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, and another as yet unidentified suicide bomber attacked the airport.

 A third attacker also came to the airport with an explosive in a bag, but it exploded later and no one was hurt, the prosecutor said.

 He said Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, blew himself up at the Maelbeek subway station. The attacks Tuesday killed at least 31 people and wounded 270, he said.

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 12:40 p.m.

 Brussels airport has announced that it will remain closed to passenger flights for at least another day, right up to the start of the busy Easter weekend.

 Airport officials said they would have to cancel some 600 flights each on Wednesday and Thursday. It means that since the attack on the airport Tuesday morning, the flights of some 180,000 passengers will be disrupted.

 Brussels airport was hoping to resume cargo flights earlier but there was no immediate word on when.

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 12:35 p.m.

 Belgians are holding a moment of silence to honor at least 34 people killed in unprecedented Islamic extremist attacks on Brussels.

 Government offices, schools and residents marked the moment in a mood of anxiety, defiance — and fear that other people involved in the attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and a subway station may still be at large.

 The country is holding three days of national mourning for the victims. In addition to those killed, over 200 people were wounded in the attacks.

 Belgian police, meanwhile, are conducting raids and the country is at its highest terrorism alert level, meaning there's a risk of an imminent attack.

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 12:20 p.m.

 The Belgian football federation has called off an international soccer friendly match against Portugal next week because of Tuesday's attacks in Brussels.

 The federation said "because of security concerns" the city of Brussels asked for the cancellation and the federation obliged. The game was to have been played next Tuesday at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels.

 The Belgian team, which is one of the favorites to win this summer's European Championships, had already canceled training for the friendly since the attacks.

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 12:10 p.m.

 French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the show must go on and big events, be they sports or cultural, must not be put on hold for fear of terror attacks.

 He says Wednesday that includes the Euro2016 soccer tournament, a monthlong event being held in France that starts in June.

 Valls says "the big popular events are indispensable in showing that we are a free people, on our feet, that we aren't scared."

 Some commentators had called for the soccer tournament to be postponed due to the threat of terror.

 Valls says authorities know these events are faced with a terror threat and will plan accordingly. But he insists that events like the Euro2016 tournament, the Tour de France bicycling race and "other large demonstrations will take place."

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 11:10 a.m.

 Pope Francis has led thousands of people in silent prayer for the victims of the attacks at Brussels' airport and in its metro.

 At the end of his public audience in St. Peter's Square Wednesday, Francis expressed his closeness to the "dear Belgian people" and asked the crowd of pilgrims and tourists to join him silently in prayer.

 He also appealed to "all persons of good will to unite in unanimous condemnation" of the attacks causing death, horror and sorrow.

 Francis is preparing to celebrate Holy Week ceremonies that will draw large crowds, including a Colosseum cross procession and culminating with Easter Mass in the square on Sunday.

 The U.S. Embassy in Rome on Wednesday issued a travel alert advising "particular caution during religious holidays" as well as at large events.

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 11:05 a.m.

 The Czech Defense Ministry says soldiers have been deployed as part of stepped-up security measures following the attacks in Brussels.

 As of Wednesday morning, the ministry says 550 service members will be patrolling international airports, train stations and other places in the capital and all across the country, working with police officers.

 Security was also boosted at Prague's subway network, at the country's two nuclear power plants and some foreign embassies.

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 10:55 a.m.

 A lawyer's assistant says a judicial hearing in Brussels for Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been postponed for a day to Thursday, apparently because of heightened security concerns in the Belgian capital.

 Bombing attacks Tuesday in the Brussels airport and subway killed 34 people and wounded scores, and the terrorism alert level throughout Belgium has been raised to its maximum level.

 Abdeslam, who was arrested Friday in Brussels, was to appear Wednesday before a panel of judges who could extend his detention by another month. French authorities are seeking Abdeslam's extradition so he can be tried for his alleged role in the Nov. 13 bomb-and-gun attacks that killed 130 in Paris.

 An assistant to Sven Mary, Abdeslam's defense lawyer, told The Associated Press her boss was told the hearing had been rescheduled for Thursday morning. She refused to give her name.

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 9:55 a.m.

 French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is urging the EU parliament to get going on authorizing a passenger name record (PNR) covering Europe.

 He says: "It is urgent to adopt the European PNR. The European Parliament has waited too long to adopt this text. It must examine and adopt it in April, it's time."

 Valls is going to Brussels today and says he will express his "full solidarity" with Belgium's people.

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 9:45 a.m.

 As Brussels woke after its worst violence in decades, joggers ran loops and dog walkers chatted as usual in Brussels' 18th-century Warandepark across from the country's parliament. But gardeners on duty said the atmosphere was different, and the mood around town was jittery as sirens frequently wailed.

 "It was black day. A very black day," said Jean-Marie Vrebos, 58, who was cleaning the park's playground. "We should punish those who commit terrorism. We don't deserve terror. We should punish them, GRAB them" — he yanked a piece of trash off the ground with a clasper — "and bring them to justice."

 His colleague Kevin Engels, 24, said, "Behaviors have changed. Even our bosses seem stressed. They asked us to empty all the trash cans. We pay close attention to everything. And you can hear the sirens."

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 9:30 a.m.

 Germany's top security official says he wants European security agencies to be able to exchange information more easily.

 Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told RTL television late Tuesday that the Brussels attacks "and the security situation, the terror situation, should make us put the data protection arguments last."

 De Maziere also says a soccer friendly match against England will go ahead despite the Brussels attacks. He says authorities "have no indications of a security threat" targeting the match in Berlin on Saturday.

 In November, Islamic extremists tried to enter the stadium where Germany was playing France as part of a series of attacks in Paris. Days later, a friendly against the Netherlands days was canceled because of a security warning.

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 8:30 a.m.

 Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades, as the European Union's capital awoke under guard and with limited public transport after 34 were killed in bombings on the Brussels airport and a subway station.

 Police conducted raids into the night and circulated a photo of three men seen in the airport suspected of involvement in Tuesday's attacks.

 Belgian state broadcaster RTBF has identified two of the attackers as brothers Khalid and Brahim Bakraoui. They are believed to have blown themselves up in the attacks.

 The third man is at large and has not been identified.

 The report Wednesday says the brothers were known to police for past crimes, but nothing relating to terrorism. RTBF says Khalid Bakraoui had rented an apartment which was raided by police last week in an operation that led authorities to top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam. ||||| One of the suicide bombers from Tuesday’s attack at the Brussels Airport left a written statement that has been discovered near an apartment where a taxi picked him up, according to the Belgian prosecutor’s office.

 Ibrahim El-Bakraoui, 29, was the man pictured in the center of surveillance footage from the airport before the bombs detonated. He is one of two of the attackers who have been publicly identified.

 The other was his brother, Khalid El-Bakhraoui, who was the subway suicide bomber, officials said.

 Ibrahim El-Bakraoui’s note was described by Belgian prosecutors as being a "testament" and was found on a laptop in a trash can on the same street as the apartment the trio was picked up from earlier that day.

 "The note included mentions of 'being in a rush,' 'no longer knowing what to do,' 'being sought everywhere,' 'no longer being safe,' and that if he takes too much time, he risks finishing his life 'next to him' in a jail cell," the official said.

 It is unclear to whom El-Bakraoui is referring in the note.

 El-Bakraoui’s written statement was found in a trash can outside the apartment building where a taxi driver picked him up, along with two co-conspirators, before taking them to the airport Tuesday morning, prosecutors allege.

 Tuesday's deadly attacks, which left at least 31 victims dead, came days after Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in November's attacks in Paris, was arrested in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek.

 One of the two other men pictured with Ibrahim El-Bakraoui died in the attack but has not been identified. The other is believed to have survived and is on the run, officials said. ||||| CLOSE Two suicide bombers in the terror attacks that killed at least 31 people in Brussels have been named by Belgian state TV RTBF. A manhunt for a third suspect is underway. VPC

 A picture released on March 22, 2016 by the Belgian federal police prosecutor shows a screengrab of the airport CCTV camera showing three suspects of the attacks at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

 Belgian police, tipped off by a taxi driver after a pair of terror bombs killed at least 31 people, discovered a bomb-making factory in a Brussels neighborhood and a note left in an abandoned computer by a suicide bomber who feared being swept up in an anti-terror manhunt, officials said Wednesday.

 In response to Tuesday's attacks at Brussels airport and a downtown subway stop, Belgian authorities launched a massive manhunt for several suspects they believe are linked to a Belgian terror network and may be preparing to strike again. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the explosions.

 Paul Van Tigchelt, head of Belgium’s terrorism threat body, told reporters Wednesday that the country is keeping the terrorism threat level at its highest mark, indicating danger of an imminent attack.

 Police are especially keen to find one man seen in a surveillance photo with two other terrorists at the airport Tuesday morning. The man, wearing a hat and light-colored clothing, was pushing a cart carrying a 35-pound bomb, but abandoned it and fled for unknown reasons. Authorities said a higher death toll was avoided because the bomb did not go off. It was later detonated by police in a controlled explosion.

 Authorities have not identified the man, but confirmed the names of two of the four terrorists as Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, an airport suicide bomber identified by a fingerprint, and his brother, Khalid, 27, who was the subway suicide bomber at the metro station. The two brothers were known to the police for past crimes unrelated to terrorism, RTBF reported.

 The man on the left, who also died in the attack, was identified as bombmaker Najim Laachraoui, 24, The Washington Post reported, quoting an Arab intelligence official and a European intelligence official, and the Associated Press, quoting an unnamed European intelligence official and a French police official.

 Laachraoui is believed to have made the suicide vests used in the Paris attacks in November that killed 130 people, a French police official told The Associated Press, adding that Laachraoui’s DNA was found on all of the vests as well as in a Brussels apartment where they were made. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.

 Authorities caught a big break when a taxi driver who saw the surveillance photo in the media came forward to direct them to a house in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek where they discovered a bomb-making factory, complete with explosives, chemicals and nails used as shrapnel. They also found an Islamic State flag.

 While scouring the neighborhood, police also found in a trash can the computer containing a suicide note from Ibrahim El Bakraoui.

 In the note, which was also written as a partial last will and testament, El Bakraoui expressed concern that he might get caught in a manhunt spawned by last week's arrest in Brussels of Salah Abdeslam, who police say confessed to his role in the Paris attacks.

 Abdeslam's lawyer said his client is cooperating with police. Belgian authorities said Abdeslam planned to commit another attack and had a large network of associates.

 "Being in a hurry, I don't know what to do, being searched for everywhere, not being safe. If it drags on it could end up with me in a prison cell next to him," El Bakraoui wrote in the suicide note in an apparent reference to Abdeslam.

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said one of the suspects, identified by a Turkish official later as Ibrahim El Bakraoui, was deported to The Netherlands in July but Belgium ignored Turkey's warning he was a militant, the Associated Press reported.

 The official who later identified the suspect as El Bakraoui also corrected Erdogan’s account to say the suspect had been deported to The Netherlands, not Belgium. El Bakraoui was caught at the Turkish-Syrian border. The official said Turkey warned both Belgium and the Netherlands that he was a “foreign terrorist fighter.”

 The official says Dutch authorities later allowed El Bakraoui to go free because Belgian authorities could not establish any ties to terrorism, the Associated Press reported The official cannot be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

 AP also reported the Islamic State has trained as least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum carnage.

 The officials, including European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker who follows the jihadi networks, described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to attack the West. Some of the sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the information.

 Brussels Airport remained closed Wednesday as investigators continued to gather evidence. Government offices, schools and residents across the country held a moment of silence for the victims.

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 Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Brussels on Friday to discuss the deadly attacks with top Belgian and European officials.

 State Department spokesman John Kirby says Kerry will visit the Belgian capital to "formally express the condolences of the United States for the loss of life" in Tuesday's bombings at the Brussels airport and subway.

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 A Shorewood man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of illegal voting, accused of casting multiple ballots in four elections in 2011 and 2012, including five in the 2012 gubernatorial recall.

 Robert D. Monroe, 50, used addresses in Shorewood, Milwaukee and Indiana, according to the complaint, and cast some votes in the names of his son and his girlfriend's son.

 According to the complaint:

 Monroe cast two ballots in the April 2011 Supreme Court election, two in the August 2011 Alberta Darling recall election, five in the Scott Walker-Tom Barrett recall, one illegal ballot in an August 2012 primary, and two ballots in the November 2012 presidential election.

 In the presidential election, Monroe cast an in-person absentee ballot in Shorewood on Nov. 1 and drove a rental car to Lebanon, Ind., where he showed his Indiana driver's license to vote in person on election day, Nov. 6, the complaint charges. Monroe owns a house there, according to the complaint.

 The 26-page criminal complaint was filed Friday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court and is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, one of the prosecutors involved in the John Doe investigations of Gov. Scott Walker's staff when he was county executive and the now-halted probe into fundraising by Walker's gubernatorial campaign.

 The complaint indicates the investigation started in Waukesha County as an inquiry into possible double voting by Monroe's son, who lives in Waukesha. But the son denied any knowledge of requesting an absentee ballot from his father's Shorewood address, and the investigation shifted back to Milwaukee County.

 It then proceeded, in part, as it related to yet another John Doe investigation apparently unrelated to Walker, records of which were recently ordered unsealed, according to the complaint.

 The complaint says investigators went as far as testing absentee ballot envelopes, supposedly sent by other people, to find only Monroe's DNA, and no DNA of the voters allegedly casting the votes.

 It includes text messages between Monroe and his ex-wife, sons and brother, strongly urging them to vote. One text May 23, 2012, to a son reads, "You must go to city hall and register to vote. Every vote will be needed!... Please please please."

 The complaint refers to Monroe as an executive within the health care industry who earned a master's degree in business administration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013.

 "He has expressed an interest in attending law school," the complaint reads.

 Monroe faces various counts of election fraud, including registering in more than one place, providing false information to an election official, voting more than once and voting as a disqualified person, for a total 13 felony charges. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of up to 18 months in prison, two years of extended supervision and a $10,000 fine.

 Monroe is not in custody, and his initial court appearance is scheduled for July 17.

 Monroe is represented by Milwaukee attorneys Franklyn Gimbel and Steven McGaver. Gimbel declined to comment about the matter or his client Tuesday.

 "We have some strategies we're not looking to disclose at this time," he said. ||||| A Shorewood man has been charged with voting multiple times in multiple elections.

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 Robert Monroe is a health insurance executive and on his LinkedIn page boasts, "I love the thrill of the hunt, leading teams and developing new business."

 Milwaukee prosecutors said he takes the lead in the number of multiple votes cast. He's charged with voting illegally at least a dozen times using relatives' names and addresses.

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 According to the complaint, the investigation started in Waukesha, where investigators wanted to know why Monroe's son had both voted in Waukesha and applied for an absentee ballot at the Shorewood Village Hall.

 Police questioned Monroe's son about the Shorewood absentee voter application. The son said he'd never seen it. Suspicion then turned to his dad since it listed his father's address.

 Shorewood's clerk said the state uses a computer system to detect duplicate voters.

 "You can register in one community and vote once. If you try to register in another community, we will catch it," Shorewood clerk Sherry Grant said.

 While there's no way to know whom he voted for, WISN 12 News has learned Monroe donated money to state Sen. Alberta Darling. Prosecutors said he voted twice in Darling's 2011 recall election, five times in Gov. Scott Walker's recall election and once in another state.

 Prosecutors tracked Monroe's cellphone to show he voted in Wisconsin and Indiana in the November 2012 presidential election, and they tested absentee ballots to identify Monroe's DNA.

 Investigators said Monroe told them he doesn't remember the elections and that drugs he takes for Attention Deficit and Obsessive Compulsive disorders often leave him in a blurred mental state.

 Monroe will make his first court appearance in July.

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– How convinced may Robert Monroe have been that his vote in the 2012 presidential election mattered? So much so that the Wisconsin man allegedly cast an in-person absentee ballot in Shorewood on Nov. 1 then rented a car and drove some 250 miles to Lebanon, Ind., five days later, using his driver's license from that state (he owns a home there) to do so. And that's not all: When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker faced a recall vote, Monroe voted five times, per a criminal complaint filed Friday. The 50-year-old has been charged with voter fraud after allegedly voting multiple times in a series of elections, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. He also allegedly voted multiple times in contests in April and August 2011 and illegally voted in a 2012 primary. In order to reach their conclusions, investigators tested DNA on absentee ballot envelopes, finding Monroe's DNA on envelopes that appeared to be from others; the complaint says he cast votes under his son's name and that of his girlfriend's son. Each of his 13 felony charges carries up to 18 months in prison. Monroe has claimed that he has no memory of the elections, and that his Attention Deficit and Obsessive Compulsive medications weaken his mental sharpness, WISN reports. No word on who he voted for, though he donated to a Republican state senator ... and allegedly voted twice in her recall election.


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Revellers run with a Puerto de San Lorenzo fighting bull during the third running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, July 9, 2017. Revellers from around the... (Associated Press)

 Revellers run with a Puerto de San Lorenzo fighting bull during the third running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, July 9, 2017. Revellers from around the world flock to Pamplona every year to take part in the eight days of the running of the bulls. (AP Photo/Alvaro... (Associated Press)

 PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — After five gorings on the first two days of this year's San Fermin festival, officials in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona said Sunday's third running of the bulls was quick and resulted in only minor injuries.

 The regional government of Navarra said that four men, three Spaniards and one Frenchman, needed to be treated at a nearby hospital for minor injuries caused by knocks and falls.

 "It was a tranquil bull run," hospital spokesman Tomas Belzunegui said.

 Over the first two days of the festival, four Americans and a Spaniard were gored during the daily bull runs. None were life-threatening injuries.

 The bulls from the Puerto de San Lorenzo ranch, which debuted at the festival, completed the 930-yard (850-meter) cobbled-street course in 2 minutes, 22 seconds. That is well under the average of three minutes for the run that weaves through the city center.

 A brown bull named "Huracan," or Hurricane, broke away early and sped ahead through the parting crowds of runners, several of whom barely dodged its swinging horns.

 Huracan came close to catching a runner when it hooked a horn in the pant leg of a young man entering the bullring, lifting him along the wall before dragging him for a few meters (yards). The man apparently escaped unscathed.

 The nine-day San Fermin fiesta attracts tens of thousands of partygoers from Spain and abroad. It was popularized by Nobel Literature laureate Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." ||||| A Chicago man who was gored by a bull three years ago while running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, was gored again on Saturday — but he still plans to run again on Monday.

 Bill Hillmann, an author who has been participating in the annual tradition for 12 years, tells PEOPLE the 1,200-lbs. bull named Sentido jabbed one of its horn into his buttocks and then tossed him up a few feet. However, he says he managed to land on the ground with a relatively soft thud.

 “I looked back again, and he was just on me,” Hillmann said in a phone call from Pamplona. “At the last second, he shot me straight up in the air. The horns just went in in a really weird way, and he gored me.”

 Hillmann, 35, explains he immediately went into shock, which blunted the pain.

 “I felt the blow send me in the air, but I didn’t feel piercing pain,” he says. “I walked to the medics.”

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 At first, he says, he didn’t even know he had been gored because his pants were intact after the animal had somehow pulled down his pants and rammed its horn through his yellow underwear into a lower part of his backside.

 “The medics pulled my pants down and there was blood everywhere,” he recalls, adding he avoided serious injury because the horn came near his anus and testicles but missed them.

 Hillmann was taken to the hospital where doctors evaluated his wound. “When he put his finger in there to check it, it felt like his finger went in two to three inches in my body,” he says.

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 Hillmann spent 36 hours in the hospital, where doctors stitched up the surface of the deep wound and inserted a small tube which continues to drain the blood. He is able to walk and sit.

 The author was released Sunday and is now feeling some pain. However, he said he’ll be back running with the bulls on Monday.

 “I’m really in love with the bulls and I’m really in love with the culture, so it’s almost an impossibility I would stop,” he explains. “I’m a daredevil at heart. It’s just who I am.”

 Hillmann was more seriously injured during the event in 2014 when a bull gored him twice in the thigh, through one side of his leg and then the other. That time he spent 11 days in the hospital and needed a cane to help him walk for two months, he told The Atlantic.

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 Hillmann said his initial inspiration to run with the bulls was sparked after he read vivid depictions of bullfighting and bull running in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

 He said he travels annually to Pamplona for the San Fermin festival, the famed stampede when bulls run through the narrow streets alongside runners in white outfits with red scarves tied around their necks or waists.

 This year, Hillmann is being filmed by a crew working on an interactive documentary called ¡Fiesta Pamplona! with Hillman as the main character in the “foreign runner” section of the story, producer Jennifer Gonzalez tells PEOPLE from Pamplona.

 “His part of the story is integral in informing viewers the part that foreigners play,” said Gonzalez.

 Hillmann says he is happy to be able to live his dream.

 “I’m here to run, not sit in a hospital,” he says. “I have to get back out there. It’s what I love.” ||||| A reveller falls in front of Jose Escolar fighting bulls during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, July 8, 2017. Revellers from around the... (Associated Press)

 A reveller falls in front of Jose Escolar fighting bulls during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, July 8, 2017. Revellers from around the world flock to Pamplona every year to take part in the eight days of the running of the bulls. (AP... (Associated Press)

 BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — One of the two Americans gored Saturday during this year's second running of the bulls in the Spanish city of Pamplona is swearing that he will run again before the festival is over.

 Bill Hillmann, a 35-year-old writer who also was gored three years ago at the San Fermin festival, was in stable condition. The bull that led the pack thrust its horn into Hillmann's buttocks before flipping him onto the street.

 "In a split second he was on me. I tried to jump, but he hit me in the butt," the Chicago resident told The Associated Press by telephone from a hospital in Pamplona.

 "I flew up in the air and landed on my back. I didn't know I was gored at first," he said. "Then people started telling me I was gored and pulled me over to the medics. I pulled down my pants and there was blood."

 Despite his run-in, Hillmann says his love for the chaotic and treacherous spectacle of Pamplona's rampaging bulls hasn't wavered.

 "I am probably going to run tomorrow or the next day, sure at this festival," he said. "I am already walking. The first time, I wasn't walking for a week."

 Hillmann's wound was less severe than those of a 22-year-old American who also was gored on Saturday. Identified by the regional government of Navarra only with the initials J.C., he was in serious condition after his left arm was impaled and he was dragged for several meters (yards) before the bull flung him off and stormed over him. WBBM Chicago identified him as Jack Capra, of California, who told the station it had been his first running with bulls.

 Three other Americans, two Frenchmen and three Spaniards — all men — needed hospital treatment for injures received during Saturday's frantic and crowded run of thrill-seekers. Two Americans and a Spaniard also were gored on Friday.

 Hillmann was in Pamplona for a 12th consecutive year to brave the bulls and ran on Friday.

 He was gored in the early stages of the run, when the bulls from the ranch of Jose Escolar confirmed their reputation as being unpredictable.

 The bulls completed the 930-yard (850-meter) cobbled-street course in just over four minutes — well over the average of three minutes — because one bull broke away from the rest and turned around.

 The other five plowed into the slower-moving crowds, knocking many runners down as they maneuvered through the narrow streets and wooden barricades.

 Hillmann described this second goring as "just a tick" compared to his first one in 2014, which produced two thigh wounds he called "traumatic."

 Hillmann, like scores of foreigners, discovered the San Fermin festival thanks to Nobel Literature laureate Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."

 "It changed my life. It made me want to be a writer, to run the bulls, to come to Spain," he said. "When I got here everything in the book was still here, but a thousand times more. And it just keeps getting more interesting. People think this is just crazy people running. There is real art. If you pay attention, you can see it."

 Hillmann claims to have participated in over 300 bull runs across Spain at traditional summer festivals. He has written a guide on bull running, along with a novel, and was back in Pamplona to make a documentary featuring him as a bull runner.

 "The thing is that when you run, you always have doubts because you are taking a decision that can end your life," he said. "There is a shadow that follows you. Sometimes I don't run because I don't feel right. I usually get premonitions. Not today. I felt good today, but it didn't go my way." |||||
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– An American gored two times already while running with the bulls in Spain is willing to risk a third time, People reports. Author Bill Hillmann was living his Ernest Hemingway fantasy in northern Spain on Saturday when a bull gored his buttocks and tossed him in the air. The Chicago man hit the ground, looked back, "and he was just on me,” Hillmann tells People. "At the last second, he shot me straight up in the air. The horns just went in in a really weird way." As the 1,200-pound beast named Sentido stormed away along the narrow streets of Pamplona, Hillmann says he didn't feel "piercing pain" and managed to pick himself up and walk to find help. He didn't realize he'd been gored until "the medics pulled my pants down and there was blood everywhere." Hillmann, 35, spent 36 hours in the hospital but vowed to run with the bulls again on Monday. "I’m a daredevil at heart. It’s just who I am," he says. The last time Hillmann, who has run with the bulls at the annual San Fermin festival for 12 years, caught the wrong end of a horn was in 2014. That goring badly tore up a leg. "The first time, I wasn't walking for a week," he tells the AP. There have been five gorings and other minor injuries since the festival began on Friday. One victim, a 22-year-old California man, had his left arm impaled and was dragged for several yards, per the AP. (Hillmann is also the author of a book on how to survive the running of the bulls.)