Newsletter: Today: Missteps in Belgium’s Fight Against Terror. Delayed Justice for a War Criminal.

I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss today.

TOP STORIES

Belgium Admits It Fumbled

Belgium’s justice and interior ministers have offered to resign, amid criticism about the country’s failure to thwart terror attacks on the airport and metro. Turkish officials say they alerted Belgium to the presence of a jihadist that they had deported — Ibrahim El Bakraoui, identified as one of this week’s suicide bombers. But Belgian authorities apparently took no action. “Mistakes were probably made,” said one of the ministers, but the Belgian prime minister refused to accept the resignations. American intelligence officials have described Belgium as a patchwork of law enforcement and intelligence agencies that bicker over turf and withhold information from each other.

21 Years After the Bosnian War, Karadzic Is Convicted

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted Thursday of genocide and crimes against humanity and received a 40-year sentence. The psychologist-turned-politician was a military commander during the Bosnian war, which raged from 1992 to 1995. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found Karadzic, now 70, to be criminally responsible for the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, where nearly 12,000 people died, and for the massacre of about 8,000 others in Srebrenica. He eluded arrest for nearly 13 years until he was captured in 2008.

At Berkeley, a Chancellor Under Fire Says: I Get It

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks unveiled a plan Thursday to improve the way the school deals with sexual harassment cases. School administrators have been under fire for their handling of several recent episodes involving prominent faculty. In one case, the dean of the law school was allowed to keep his job — with only a 10% cut in his $415,000 annual salary — after he was found to have harassed his executive assistant with unwanted hugs, kisses and touching. Critics say administrators were also too lenient in handling sexual harassment cases involving an astronomer and a vice chancellor. “We have heard the salient message: There is much work to be done,” Dirks said.

The Evergreen State Invites Financiers to Invest in its Pot

Hoping to encourage out-of-state financiers to pour money into its legal pot industry, Washington State is scuttling a six-month residency requirement for out-of-state investors. Washington has 223 pot stores that sold $260 million in products in the last fiscal year, generating $65 million in state excise tax. This fiscal year, Washington pot sales have hit $620 million, putting $119 million into the state tax coffers. Last month, Oregon decided to lower burdens on out-of-state pot financiers, and Colorado is expected to follow suit. “There’s only so many people willing to invest in this risky and new industry,” says a Colorado lawmaker, “so allowing people from out of state to become investors in this business … seems like a good idea.”

He Keeps an Ancient Craft Alive

Hailed by Confucius, bow-making was considered one of the six “noble arts” in ancient China, along with rites, music, chariot racing, mathematics and calligraphy. The spread of firearms diminished the craft’s popularity, and Mao Tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution — which aimed to eradicate all vestiges of ancient Chinese civilization — drove it nearly to extinction. Yang Fuxi, 58, who learned the craft from his father, is often called the last known traditional bowmaker. He now makes about 100 bows a year. Sought by sportsmen, celebrities and museums, they sell for up to $10,000 a piece.

CALIFORNIA

— Judges decide that immigration law can’t target “habitual drunkards.”

— A teenager maimed in a grisly attack gets a new limb, and life, in L.A.

— El Niño transforms the California landscape.

NATION-WORLD

— In the police shooting of a Mexican fieldworker, there will be an inquest.

— It’s the Biden Rule versus the McConnell Precedent in the fight over a vacant Supreme Court seat.

— Iranian hackers are charged with cyberattacks.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

— “Batman v Superman” v critics.

— Kenneth Turan: What’s showing on Easter Sunday.

— “The Waltons” creator Earl Hamner Jr. dies at 92.

BUSINESS

— A judge gives VW another month to fix diesel cars.

— Redbox may retry video streaming.

SPORTS

— The last-place Lakers fail to mesh.

— The German-born sons of U.S. soldiers play for U.S. soccer teams.

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

— When resumes are made “whiter” to please potential employers. (The Atlantic)

— Exporting Jihad. (The New Yorker)

— In the NFL, flawed concussion research. (The New York Times)

ONLY IN L.A.

Garry Shandling, who died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 66, was a pioneering comedian who called himself an “oddball perfectionist.” He redefined the television sitcom with HBO’s “The Larry Sanders Show,” in which he played the neurotic, insecure host of a fictional talk show from 1992 to 1998. He eliminated the laugh track, addressed the audience directly and ridiculed showbiz conventions, paving the way for more recent sitcoms such as “The Office.” His influence was inescapable, and friends and admirers were quick to pay their respects. “Garry would see the ridiculousness of me being asked to sum up his life five minutes after being told of his passing. It is a perfect, ridiculous Larry Sanders moment,” said director Judd Apatow. He honed his craft at the Comedy Store in L.A., which he visited with Jerry Seinfeld in a recent episode of the Web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Shandling told this joke: “What I want at my funeral is an actual boxing referee to do a count. And at 5, just wave it off and say, ‘He’s not getting up.’”

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