Christie Fires Aide as Probe Begins over Bridge Scandal, Nebraska Officials Seize Toddler over Swearing, Brown Wants to Spend All of California’s Money: P.M. Links

The U.S. Attorney in New Jersey
is
opening a probe over the claims that Gov. Chris Christie’s
office orchestrated traffic snarls by closing lanes on George
Washington Bridge as political retaliation. Christie gave an
amazingly long press conference about it and
fired an aide for lying to him about the incident (not for the
incident itself).

Authorities in Nebraska took a toddler and three other children
into custody
connected to a video showing the child using profanities, to
the amusement and encouragement of nearby adults. A local police
union is under fire for sharing the video on Facebook.

It’s not just a frustrating rule for U.S. airports anymore: Two
Russian airports are
banning bringing any liquids on flights as a security measure
in advance of the Olympics.

On the third anniversary of the Tucson shootings, former

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said she wouldn’t rule out running for
office once again.

Apparently everything’s now just fine in California and it still
doesn’t have an extremely high unemployment rate and bankrupt
cities, as
Gov. Jerry Brown’s new proposed budget is his biggest ever,
increasing state spending by more than 8 percent.

Now that Disney is in charge of the Star Wars empire, it’s
putting together a committee to determine what various other
stories told in the universe outside the movies are actually
“canon.”
Start writing your angry letters now because Jar Jar Binks will
most assuredly make the cut.

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