• Russian investigators suggested human error may have been to blame in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others, saying on Monday April 12 that there were no technical problems with the Soviet-made plane.

• Cuban state media dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a cynic on Monday for her assertion that Fidel and Raul Castro don’t want Washington’s 48-year embargo lifted because they would no longer be able to blame America for their country’s problems.

• The Washington Post won four Pulitzer prizes on Monday, the most of any newspaper in the 2010 awards for journalism.

• In a surprise move, Conan O’Brien signed with TBS on Monday.

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