Obama Visits Wal-Mart, South Korean Prosecutors Target Ferry Owner, Johnny Manziel to the Browns: P.M. Links

  • letting you down one last timePresident Obama visited a Wal-Mart in
    northern California to make a speech about energy. Labor activists
    showed up to protest. Former Labor Secretary
    Robert Reich
    and other labor activists criticized the president
    for his choice of venue.
  • Speaker John Boehner announced his appointments to fill the
    Republican seats on the House select committee on
    Benghazi
    , filling it with lawyers. Democrats have not announced
    any appointments or whether they will make any.
  • Nigerian military commanders had advanced warning that Boko
    Haram militants were on their way to raid a girl’s boarding school
    in
    Chibok
    , according to an Amnesty International report, but
    couldn’t raise enough troops to respond and left.
  • At least 20 pro-Russian militants were killed in
    Mariupol, Ukraine
    , according to government security forces, who
    say the rebels occupied a police headquarters.
  • Prosecutors in South
    Korea
     want to arrest the owner of the ferry company that
    owned the ferry that sank in April on charges of cargo
    overloading.
  • The 2014 NFL Draft began yesterday, with the Cleveland
    Browns
     drafting quarterback Johnny Manziel at
    #22. 

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