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Knife questions in the Freddie Gray case, severe weather hits the Midwest and it’s election time in the UK.

Smile. It’s Friday. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

FREDDIE GRAY

Into the mystic: They keep washing up on Japan’s shores - wooden boats with decaying bodies. The first arrived in October. Then came several others late last month. The best guess are the boats are from North Korea. But why? Are they fishing vessels that strayed off course? Were the carrying defectors? Unraveling the riddle is proving difficult because the North Korean regime is so secretive.

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D.C. suspect's former attorney: He's kind, patriotic
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POLICE UNDER FIRE

New lawsuit: Four black parole officers sue an upstate New York city and police department, accusing its white officers of racial profiling and violating their civil rights during a traffic stop last year. The black officers – all with New York State Parole – said white officers from the Ramapo Police Department drew their weapons, physically assaulted them and continued to detain them even after they were identified as parole officers. A Ramapo city official said the police officers’ actions were justified and the parole officers hadn’t notified the city they would be in town. Most of the arrest was captured on dashcam video.

ISIS

Rebel training: It’s controversial, but it’s about to begin. The Pentagon, as soon as this week, will begin to train moderate Syrian rebels at locations in Turkey and Jordan to fight ISIS. The first of 400 U.S. military trainers have arrived in both countries, and some 400 out of 3,000 rebels interested in the training have passed an initial security screening. The rebels will be trained on small arms, radios, medical gear and battlefield tactics. The controversy comes in the risk that some of the fighters may decide to take their weapons and training and go fight the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – not the goal of the training. Some rebels leaders say the number of fighters trained is too low and the fighters need more sophisticated weaponry. But U.S. officials are hesitant to give rebels heavier weapons, fearing they could end up in the hands of terror groups.

The Boy Scouts of America's longtime ban on gay scout leaders may be coming to an end.

‘FEMALE VIAGRA’

Closer to approval: Women who need help getting in the mood are a step closer to their own “little blue pill.” An FDA advisory panel yesterday OK’d flibanserin – the so-called female Viagra. The FDA will now mull final approval for the drug. Flibanserin is often compared to Viagra, but that’s not a great comparison, since Viagra works on the physcial – erectile dysfunction – while flibanserin is more of an antidepressant and works on the central nervous system.

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Fmr. Bandidos member: Police warning is 'pure nonsense'
03:18 - Source: CNN

RAND PAUL

Another day, another scandal: Ireland’s soccer association chief says FIFA paid $5 million in 2009 to keep the Irish from suing over a bad non-call in a World Cup playoff. FIFA admits paying the money but says it was a loan for a new Irish stadium. Ireland was miffed when it lost a place in the 2010 World Cup to France after a referee missed a French player illegally handling the ball seconds before France scored the winning goal. Irish soccer officials insist the money was given specifically to quell the drama ensuing from the non-call.

Those are your five biggies for the day. Here are a few others that are brewing and have the Internet buzzing.

‘Isn’t that … ?’: No one likes surprises at a wedding – unless the surprise is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson!

Cuteness alert!: Adorable little penguins, frolicking in the water. That’s really all you need to know.

Hug me: This dog’s owner has to resort to tricks to get a hug.