A top donor to President Obama’s reelection effort has been accused of fraud. Abake Assongba has been accused of impersonating a bank official to steal money from a Swiss businessman and then using the money to buy an expensive home. Assongba is also in debt to a former landlord that she owes more than $10,000 in back rent to. Assongba has given more than $50,000 to Obama’s reelection effort this year. It is not yet clear if the campaign will return the funds. Last month, the Obama campaign returned $200,000 to the brothers of a Mexican fugitive wanted on federal drug charges.

Hundreds of protesters took to a Miami park on Sunday afternoon calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26. Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the singer Chaka Khan were among the high-profile individuals who turned out for the march, which included Trayvon’s parents. Rep. Frederica Wilson, who represents Travyon’s home district, organized the march. Bayfront Park, a popular Miami destination, hosted the march, which was a "welcome home" of sorts for Trayvon’s parents after they spent time lobbying in D.C.

Nobel laureate, democracy icon, political prisoner for decades, and now, finally, a member of Parliament. The opposition in Burma says Aung San Suu Kyi has won a parliamentary seat in landmark elections Sunday. The official confirmation might not come for days, and the by-elections—the first in two decades—will fill just 45 spots in a 664-seat Parliament controlled by retired generals. And Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party has claimed “rampant irregularities” during the voting. But in a country where the military has ruled almost exclusively for 50 years, the victory could mark a new day.

Mitt Romney thinks the GOP primary is coming to a close. On Sunday evening, the former governor told a crowd in Madison, Wis., that the nominee “will probably be me.” Several other Republican leaders expressed a similar sentiment earlier in the day. Mitch McConnell told CNN, “I think the chances are overwhelming that (Romney) will be our nominee.” At the same time, Obama’s reelection team was focusing attacks on Romney on Sunday. Vice President Biden called him “a little out of touch” while Hillary Clinton suggested that Romney’s foreign policy views were “somewhat dated.”

Satellite images taken on Wednesday and analyzed by experts show “extensive preparations” for a planned rocket launch in North Korea in April, the Associated Press reports. “These pictures are new and important evidence that the North’s preparations for its rocket launch are progressing according to schedule,” said Joel Wit, a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins. North Korea has said that the launch will take place between April 12 and 16. Any launch would end a Feb. 29 accord between North Korea and the U.S. that provides food aid for hungry North Koreans in agreement for suspension of nuclear work.

More than 30 are feared dead in a tragic plane crash Monday morning in the Tyumen region of Siberia, Russia. Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the wreckage so far; children are said to be among the dead. Conflicting reports have said that there may be a few survivors, though they are believed to have severe injuries and burns. The Utair company twin-engine turboprop plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Radio control said it lost contact with the plane after it left the ground.

World powers stepped up their indictments of Syria today, meeting in Turkey for the Friends of Syria conference, where U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed to double America’s funding of the opposition to $25 million. “We cannot sit back and wait any longer,” Clinton warned. Meanwhile, Syrian rebels said their fighters are getting salaries. The opposition Syrian National Council said Sunday that wealthy Gulf Arab states will supply millions of dollars to them, and money will be given to soldiers who defect from the government’s army.

One more win and the Baylor Bears will make college basketball history. Baylor took down Stanford 59-47 to move to 39-0 on the season, giving itself the chance to become the first team in college basketball—men's or women's—to go 40-0 in a season. Standing in its way will be the Notre Dame Irish, which employed a little bit of luck to beat perennial powerhouse Connecticut in an overtime win, 83-75. The Irish scored a game-tying basket with less than five seconds to play and then went on a 16-5 run in overtime to beat the Huskies.

She’s back! Sarah Palin is set to co-host the Today show Tuesday morning. But it won’t be the former governor’s first foray into TV news. Palin currently serves as political analyst for Fox News and briefly worked as a sports reporter in Alaska before venturing into politics. Palin’s co-hosting gig will put her in direct competition with Katie Couric’s stint guest-hosting Good Morning America on the same day. Couric famously stumped Palin in an interview during the 2008 campaign, and the former VP candidate has been highly critical of Couric and the “lamestream media” since then.

Teens and tweens are still flocking to The Hunger Games, leaving this week's debuts in the dust. The film grossed $251 million domestically during the 10 days since its opening, the fastest-ever nonsequel to reach that figure. It raked in $61.1 million in its second weekend. The sequel that expected a much-better release this weekend was Wrath of the Titans, which earned $34.2 million; compared with $61.2 million for its predecessor, Clash of the Titans, two years ago. Julia Roberts’s Snow White rehash, Mirror Mirror, came in at a disappointing $19 million.

Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in the new indie film Jobs, directed by Joshua Michael Stern. The Two and a Half Men star is most famous for his comedic roles, but he has received acclaim for his dramatic turns in movies such as Spread and Bobby. The movie will follow Jobs’s life story from his time as a hippie to his time at Apple. The project is being produced by Mark Hulme and is set to start filming in May when Kutcher’s show is on hiatus.

It’s no April Fools—they don’t celebrate that holiday in China, anyway. But a grocery shopper in Fujian province has stumbled upon a remarkable piece of produce: a piece of yam that looks like a human foot! The potato appendage is not easy on the eyes (it has six toes), but the food is often used as a medicinal ingredient in Chinese medicine, so the lucky shopper may do well to keep his hands on this special foot.

Linsanity may be at an end. New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin is out for the season because of a knee injury. Lin has a chronic meniscal tear in his left knee requiring arthroscopic surgery and will likely be out of six weeks. Lin will miss the rest of the regular season and maybe the playoffs as well. Coach Mike Woodson said, “It’s a big blow.”

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson joined thousands of protesters in a march through Sanford, Fla., on Saturday to demand the arrest of George Zimmerman. “We want arrests, shot in the chest,” the protesters shouted. Ben Jealous, the president of the NAACP, which organized the march, said, “We’re here to say, ‘Save our sons.’ Bring Mr. Zimmerman to justice.”

The National Weather Service is testing out new tornado warnings, designed to better communicate the dangers of approaching storms in an emergency. The current warning system issues virtually the same warning for any storm, resulting in a “cry wolf” effect that causes many people to ignore warnings no matter how severe the weather. The new warnings will include works like “mass devastation,” “unsurvivable,” and “catastrophic.”

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union that he was wrong earlier this week when he said U.S. generals didn’t support President Obama’s Pentagon budget. “I really misspoke, to be candid with you,” Ryan said. “I was clumsy in how I was describing the point I was trying to make.” Ryan said what he meant was that the president had decided on the number $525 billion before the generals got to the budget. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey had lashed out at Ryan’s earlier comments, which called them, collectively, liars. Ryan said he has spoken to Dempsey.

It's still a few days away, but on Saturday, GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney predicted a win in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary. A victory would put him in firm control of taking the nomination, and he’s got the numbers to prove it: polls show he’s come from behind to take the lead over Rick Santorum. “This was an uphill battle for me if you looked back three or four weeks ago,” Romney told supporters. “And now we’re looking like we’re going to win this thing on Tuesday. But I’ve got to have you guys get out and vote.”

Tuareg rebels in Mali said Sunday that they have surrounded the ancient city of Timbuktu, the last major government holdout in the north. This after fighters—who want a homeland for the nomadic Tuareg people—made a rapid advance in that part of the country, taking advantage of the chaos surrounding last week’s coup in the faraway capital of Bamako. Demoralized troops appear to be fleeing the city.

Women who take hormones to deal with menopause symptoms may be increasing their risk of breast cancer more than previously thought, a new study suggests. The combination of estrogen and progestin has already been linked to a higher incidence of breast cancer, but the new study, which tracked 60,000 nurses, found that any sustained hormone use (for 10 years) increases the risk—even for those women without a uterus who take only estrogen. Doctors recommend taking the lowest possible hormone dosage for women treating menopause.

Miguel de la Madrid, the president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988, died in a Mexico City hospital Sunday at age 77. His botched handling of an earthquake that devastated Mexico City in 1985 and killed 9,000 popele caused a political scandal that later helped topple the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which had dominated Mexico for much of the 20th century. De la Madrid was seemingly absent for more than a day after the quake and at first refused international aid. A grassroots rescue operation turned into a political opposition.

A investigation by The New York Times suggests U.N. peacekeeping troops imported cholera to Haiti, setting off an epidemic that has killed more than 7,050 people—and stricken 5 percent of the population—as the Caribbean nation still struggles to rebuild from 2010’s devastating earthquake. According to The Times, “epidemiologic and microbiologic evidence strongly suggests that United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal imported cholera to Haiti, contaminated the river tributary next to their base through a faulty sanitation system, and caused a second disaster.” And the U.N. has been unwilling to acknowledge its role.

The body of renowned long-distance runner Micah True has been found four days after he disappeared in a morning run in the wilderness near New Mexico’s Gila National Forest. The body of the 59-year-old was found Saturday night in a rugged area. The cause of death was not yet known, and police say there were no obvious signs of trauma. True, who was the subject of the bestselling book Born to Run, set out on a 12-mile run Tuesday, left his dog at the lodge where he was staying, and never returned.

It looks like the party is turning on Rick Santorum. Top Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell called for an end to the dragged-out GOP primary, saying it’s time to turn the attention to the general campaign against President Obama. “It’s absolutely apparent that it’s in the best interests of our party at this particular point to get behind the person who is obviously going to be our nominee,” McConnell said on CNN’s State of the Union. He went on to call Mitt Romney an “excellent nominee.” Santorum has vowed to stay in the race.

According to an investigation by The Orlando Sentinel, two experts in the field of forensic voice identification say it was not George Zimmerman who was heard calling for help on a 911 call in the moments before Florida teen Trayvon Martin was shot. Forensic consultant Tom Owen used voice identification software to rule out Zimmerman, and another expert, Ed Primeau, utilized audio enhancement and human analysis to come to the same conclusion. “I believe that’s Trayvon Martin in the background, without a doubt,” Primeau said. “That’s a young man screaming.”

April Fools! Google, long at the fountainhead of technology, has purportedly launched a much-needed product: Google Maps eight-bit for Nintendo. In homage to the old-school gaming software, the company says it has designed a version of Google Maps that doesn’t rely on satellite images, but on beautifully pixelated maps, and promises a mobile version—for Game Boy. Don’t forget to blow on the cartridge!

In a thrilling NCAA Final Four game Saturday night, Kansas upset Ohio State 64–62 after staging another remarkable comeback. Kansas had the lead for less than four minutes of the entire game, and similar to its last-seconds win over North Carolina State, it came out on top in the final stretch after Ohio State’s Aaron Craft was called for a lane violation at the free-throw line with 2.9 seconds left. But the Jayhawks now face big-time favorite Kentucky, which beat Louisville 69–61 to advance to Monday night’s title showdown.