A.M. Links: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Files For Bankruptcy, Unidentified Armed Men Take Positions at Crimean Airports, Clinton Library To Release Memos

  • The Bitcoin exchange
    Mt. Gox
    has filed for bankruptcy and is blaming hackers for the
    loss of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the digital
    currency. Yesterday, Fed Chair
    Janet Yellen
    said yesterday that the Federal Reserve does not
    have any authority to regulate Bitcoin.
  • Armed men with military uniforms have been stationed at
    airports in Crimea, a region of
    Ukraine
    where there have
    recently been
    clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Western
    groups. Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov
    said
    , “Terrorists with automatic weapons, judged by our special
    services to be professional soldiers, tried to take control of the
    airport in Crimea,” and Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov
    has
    accused
    Russian forces of occupying the airport in the Crimean
    city of Sevastopol.
  • Republican New Jersey
    Gov. Chris Christie
    raised $1 million for the Republican
    Governors Association with Mitt Romney in Boston.
  • The
    Clinton Library
    is to release the first set of confidential
    memos from the Clinton White House today.
  • The U.S. has cut its
    fourth quarter GDP growth
    estimate from 3.2 percent to 2.4
    percent. 
  • According to a United Nations report Syrian authorities claimed
    there were two attempted attacks on convoys transporting
    chemical weapons
    last month.
  • President Obama and Vice President Biden have participated in a

    promotional video
    for Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign.
    Watch below:

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