Kerry Says U.S. To Continue Palestinian Aid, McConnell Will Fight Obama’s Carbon Rules, Fudge Says Fat Kids Are National Risk: P.M. Links

• Secretary of State John Kerry
  told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. will
  continue to disperse
  aid to Palestine, where a
  new unity government has been formed between President Mahmoud
  Abbas’ Fatah movement and the militant Hamas group.
• Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
  says that he will introduce legislation to stop President
  Obama’s new Environmental Protection Agency carbon rules.
• Fat kids put the “future of our nation at risk,” assures Rep.
  Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) who is proposing a
  multi-million dollar federal grant for healthy food. Smells
  like pork, Fudge.
• A bill that would allow the Veterans Affairs Department to
  
  fire poorly performing senior executives but would prevent the
  “wholesale political firings” of individuals is on the fast track
  for consideration by the Senate.
• Google is spending $1 billion on satellites in a bid to bring
  an Internet connection to
  the entire world.
• Pop star and public nuisance Justin Bieber apologized today
  after a video from several years ago revealed him using the
  n-word in a joke.
• A government building in rebel-held Luhansk, Ukraine was bombed
  today, killing at least seven. Pro-Russians claim it was an
  airstrike by the Ukrainian government, while pro-Ukrainians
  
  say it was a ground-level missile from the separatist
  militants.

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