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The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 24, 2015 11:46 AM UTC ## [**Armenia Massacre Marks Century**](http://time.com/3834188/armenia-genocide-turkey-putin-million-sarkisian-istanbul/) The Presidents of Russia and France joined other leaders on Friday at ceremonies commemorating the massacre 100 years ago of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, an event which remains a diplomatic sore point for both sides ## [**Petraeus Avoids Prison**](http://time.com/3833449/david-petraeus-former-cia-chief-fine/) Former CIA Director David Petraeus was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $100,000 for giving his mistress classified material ## [**Clinton Makes First GOP Attacks**](http://time.com/3833801/hillary-clinton-immigration-obamacare/) The Democratic candidate aimed the first big attacks of her run at GOP policies on immigration, health care and the delayed Attorney General process ## [**Obama Apologizes Over Hostages Killed in Drone Strike**](http://time.com/3832781/warren-weinstein-giovanni-lo-porto-drone/) President Barack Obama took “full responsibility” for the death of two hostages held by al-Qaeda in a drone strike in January. The two were killed in a counterterrorism operation on an al-Qaeda compound in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan ## [**The Next** **_Fast and Furious_** **Film Gets a Release Date**](http://time.com/3833790/furious-8-2017-vin-diesel/) One of the film’s stars, Vin Diesel, made the announcement at CinemaCon on Thursday in Las Vegas. It will arrive as a follow-up to this month’s_Furious 7_, which, since its April 3 opening, has grossed more than $1 billion worldwide ## [**Amazon Web Services Is a $5 Billion Business**](http://time.com/3833933/amazon-web-services-earnings-jeff-bezos/) Amazon broke out Amazon Web Services sales and revenue for the very first time on its first quarter earnings call. For the quarter, AWS logged $1.57 billion in revenue, up 49% from the year-ago period. It also logged operating income of $265 million for the quarter ## [**Ash Piles Up From Eruption of Chile’s Calbuco Volcano**](http://time.com/3833998/chile-calbuco-volcano-ash-piles-up-eruption/) Twin blasts from the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile sent vast clouds of ash into the sky, covering this small town with thick soot and raising concerns on Thursday that the dust could contaminate water, cause respiratory illnesses and ground more flights ## [**Loretta Lynch Confirmed as Attorney General**](http://time.com/3572553/who-is-loretta-lynch/) New York U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch was confirmed as the next Attorney General, the first African-American woman to hold the position. President Obama said the country will be “better off” now that Lynch has “finally” been confirmed ## [**Scientists Sequence Woolly Mammoth Genome**](http://time.com/3834056/woolly-mammoth-extinct-genome-sequence-study/) An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genome of the woolly mammoth, a breakthrough that could help our understanding of why these hairy cousins of the elephant went extinct ## [**Three More Women Accuse Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault**](http://time.com/3833918/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-three-women-accuse-comedian/) At a news conference on Thursday, civil rights attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing the accusers, said they are speaking out now against Cosby because the comedian still refuses to “acknowledge and take responsibility for his conduct towards women” ## [**The Internet Is Begging Indonesia to Spare a Filipina’s Life**](http://time.com/3834113/mary-jane-veloso-indonesia-philippines-death-row-jokowi/) As the executions of 10 drug convicts loom in Indonesia, a massive social-media campaign has kicked off in support of Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipina maid set to face the firing squad. The hashtag #MaryJane is the No. 2 trending topic on Indonesia’s Twittersphere ## [**Cobie Smulders Opens Up About Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis**](http://time.com/3833845/cobie-smulders-cancer/) _How I Met Your Mother_ actress Cobie Smulders revealed publicly for the first time that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 25\. “I had tumors on both ovaries and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues,” Smulders said ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3834221/morning-must-reads-april-24-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3834221/morning-must-reads-april-24-2/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: April 24 (24 Apr 2015)","datePublished":"2015-04-24T11:46:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:54:17.753Z","description":"Armenia Massacre Marks Century The Presidents of Russia and France joined other leaders on Friday at ceremonies commemorating the massacre 100 years ago of 1.5...","url":"https://time.com/3834221/morning-must-reads-april-24-2/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3834221/morning-must-reads-april-24-2/","name":"Morning Must Reads: April 24 (24 Apr 2015)"}}]}] ```