Former IRS official
Lois Lerner once again invoked the Fifth Amendment before a
House Oversight Committee hearing about the targeting of Tea Party
groups and declined to answer questions.- The Senate has
rejected Debo Adegbile as President Barack Obama’s pick to run
the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. He drew
opposition for his work defending Mumia Abu-Jabal. Seven Democrats
voted against the pick. - Under pressure from gun control groups,
Facebook will block minors from seeing posts about gun sales
and will take down posts about gun sales that don’t require a
background check. - A
United Nations special envoy was forced to abandon a mission in
the Crimean region of Ukraine by apparent armed supporters of
Russia. - Washington State has issued its first business license to
legally sell recreational marijuana. - Major changes are afoot for
SAT tests. Obscure vocabulary words are going to be deleted, as
well as the mandatory essay. But calculators will no longer be
permitted in some of the math sections.
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