A.M. Links: Pro-Russian Activists Take Police Station in Eastern Ukraine, GOP Senators Warn of ‘Bush Fatigue,’ Hunt for MH370 Heading Underwater

  • Pro-Russian activists have taken over a police station in
    Horlivka, a town in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian interim Prime
    Minister Olexander Turchynov said that Ukraine is preparing an
    anti-terrorist”
    operation
    against gunmen who have occupied official buildings
    there.
  • Yesterday Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman
    Rep.
    Steve Israel
    (D-N.Y.) said that “not all” of his Republican
    colleagues are racists. He added that, “to a significant extent,
    the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism,
    and that’s unfortunate.”
  • The man who allegedly
    shot and killed
    three people outside a Jewish community center
    and retirement community in a Kansas City suburb yesterday has been
    identified as Frazier Glenn Cross, a 73-year-old man with a history
    of anti-Semitic activity.
  • The search for
    MH370
    is heading underwater. A U.S. Navy drone will look for
    the missing plane on the floor of the search area in the Indian
    Ocean. The so-called “black box” has probably run out of
    battery.
  • Senate Republicans are warning that “Bush
    fatigue
    ” could hinder Jeb Bush’s chances of winning the
    presidency in 2016 if he were to secure the GOP nomination.
  • More than 70 people have
    been killed by two blasts at a bus station in Nigeria’s
    capital. 

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