Biden Grows Ties to Ukraine Gas Company, US Won’t Support Ransom in Nigeria, No Keystone Pipeline This Year: P.M. Links

• Joe Biden’s son is joining the
  board of a
  gas company in Ukraine, which doesn’t complicate anything at
  all, I’m sure.
• The United States will not support a ransom or
  prisoner exchange for the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by
  Boko Haram, the White House says.
• A man claiming to be
  God reportedly crashed his truck into a television news station
  in Towson, Maryland. Why does God need a truck? Or a news
  station?
• Six Ukrainian soldiers
  were reportedly killed in an ambush by antigovernment forces. A
  rebel commander claims one dead among the militia men and a much
  higher death count among Ukrainians than reported.
• Congress has failed to negotiate passage of legislation
  authorizing construction of the
  Keystone XL pipeline. With the Obama Administration also
  failing to take a formal position on it as yet, don’t expect
  anything to happen for the rest of the year.
• Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been
  sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a bribery
  scandal.

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