- Official unemployment rose
to 6.7 percent in February. - Russian forces have
reportedly attacked a Ukrainian military base a few miles from
the port city of Sevastopol. - Rand Paul spoke at
CPAC, telling attendees to vote for candidates that are friends
of liberty, not just who are Republican. He got some of the loudest
applause at the conference so far after telling the NSA to mind
their own business. Rick Santorum spoke earlier, slamming
politicians like Mitt Romney and John McCain for “apologizing” for
conservatism. - While introducing Aretha Franklin at a “Women of Soul” event at
the White House, President Obama told attendees she sang about what
“R-S-P-E-C-T”
meant to her. - Newsweek may be
backing off its claim that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is the
creator of Bitcoin, while Bitcoin users are
currently raising bitcoins for Nakamoto. They’ve collected
more than 22 for him so far. - A Florida woman arrested on an alleged DUI in 2010 whose mug
shot went viral is
now suing a records search website, accusing it of using her
mug shot for commercial purposes. - Fox’s reboot of Carl Sagan’s PBS series “Cosmos,” narrated by
Neil deGrasse Tyson, will
premiere Sunday night on most Fox affiliate stations.
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