A.M. Links: Obama Shilling for Higher Wages at Costco, One Out of Two Doctors Consults Wikipedia, Scarlet Johansson Steps Down as Oxfam Director

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  • President Obama was at Costco
    shilling
    for a higher minimum wage, a policy that would give
    the store an advantage over its much smaller competitors.
  • A top Senate Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama,
    sent
    a package to all 232 Republican members of the House
    rebutting possible arguments against the immigration reform effort
    in Congress.
  • 50 percent of doctors and patients consult Wikipedia,
    according
    to a new report from a healthcare institute.
  • A Brooklyn school
    discontinued
    its gifted program over concerns about lack of
    “diversity.”
  • Scarlet Johansson has stepped
    down
    as an ambassador for Oxfam after an outcry from some over
    her relationship with an Israeli soda company that operates a
    factory in the West Bank.
  • The United Kingdom and France are teaming up to
    develop
    a new generation of killer drones.

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