A.M. Links: U.S. Builds Case Against Russia Over Malaysian Jet Attack, Death Toll Climbs in Gaza, Florida Jury Awards $23.6 Billion in Smoking Lawsuit

  • The Obama administration says
    that an
    “enormous amount of evidence”
    links both Ukrainian separatists
    and Russian forces to the missile attack that brought down a
    Malaysian Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine. The MH 17 crash site,
    meanwhile, remains
    under the control
    of pro-Russian separatists.
  • The Palestinian
    death toll
    in Gaza has climbed to 476 after heavy fighting
    between Israel and Hamas on Sunday.
  • “Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in
    French cities
    on Saturday to condemn violence in Gaza, defying
    a ban imposed after demonstrators marched on two synagogues in
    Paris last weekend and clashed with riot police.”
  • According to a new report, the Obama administration was

    first warned
    about long wait times and other problems at
    Veterans Affairs hospitals in 2008.
  • A Florida jury has awarded
    $23.6 billion
    in damages to a widow who sued tobacco company
    R.J. Reynolds over her husband’s death.

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