- Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a draft bill that
would make Crimea part of
Russia. Speaking before Russia’s parliament, Putin said that, “in
people’s heart of hearts, Crimea has always
been part of Russia.” - A Kentucky reporter claims that Jesse Benton, who is running
the
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) re-election campaign, barred him from a
news conference and threatened him with police action if he asked a
question. Benton claims that the event was private and that the
reporter was not invited. - Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) is the latest lawmaker to raise
concerns about the almost 400 percent increase in State Department
refusals of
Israeli visa applications in the last few years. - China claims that there is no evidence that any of the Chinese
nationals on the missing
Malaysia Airlines flight have connections to terrorism. - United Nations human rights investigators have added names to
their list of suspected
war criminals linked to the ongoing civil war in Syria. - There is talk of Nobel Prizes being handed out in the wake of
the news that astronomers detected a signal from shortly after the
birth of the universe which could provide direct evidence of the
universe’s
accelerated expansion very shortly after the Big Bang.
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