A.M. Links: Putin in Crimea for Victory Day, House Approves Benghazi Select Committee, Romney Backs Minimum Wage Hike

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting annexed Crimea
    on Victory Day, when Russians celebrate the Soviet victory over
    Nazi Germany.
  • Yesterday the House approved a
    select committee
    tasked with investigating the September 2012
    attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, which resulted in the
    deaths of four Americans.
  • President Obama slammed House Republicans yesterday for having

    “stubbornly refused”
    to allow for a vote on immigration
    reform.
  • China’s foreign ministry has blamed the U.S. for stoking

    territorial tensions
    in the South China Sea by encouraging
    countries to behave dangerously.  
  • British and American military advisers, negotiators, and
    counsellors have arrived in Nigeria to assist in the search for the
    schoolgirls
    kidnapped
    by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

  • Mitt Romney
    wants the minimum wage to be raised.

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