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Although SeaWorld has remained silent about its next moves should a California measure that would ban the captivity of killer whales in their parks will be passed, it blames the negative publicity it is getting from a documentary film that allegedly distorts facts about animals kept in captivity titled "Blackfish," the Guardian said.

Although singer Chris Brown has arrived in Washington for his April 17 assault hearing, a spokesman for the US Marshals Service said that the singer will be locked up and jail and will be escorted to his impending trial.

Several Republicans in favor of the resurrection of the Jobless Bill, which will provide federal benefits to long-term unemployed workers in the US, has urged Speaker John Boehner to permit voting of the measure in the House, The Miamia Herald reported.