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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Florida’s Execution Expressway


March 27, 2014
JUST LIKE US

The Sunshine State has joined Iran and North Korea as major concerns for Amnesty International's death penalty campaigners. At the launch of its annual report on global execution rates, Nico Hines reports that the group declared the state's law putting an express lane on death row was deeply troubling.

REALLY BAD

California State Sen. Leland Yee is accused of conspiracy to deal firearms and wire fraud, according to allegations outlined in an FBI affidavit. Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, the reported former leader of a Chinese criminal gang with ties to Hong Kong, was also named in the affidavit and is accused of money laundering, conspiracy to receive and transport stolen property, and conspiracy to traffic contraband cigarettes. He and Yee were arrested Wednesday.

AUTOPHOBIA

Ukraine is becoming a political hotbed of recriminations, as a public backlash over the country's loss of Crimea heightens concerns about whatever failures by the new Kiev government. There is also growing fear, reports Jamie Dettmer, that the Maidan Revolution of 2014 could end like the Orange Revolution of 2004—with an orgy of looting, graft, and manipulation by the powerful and privileged.

HOLY MOLY

Pope Francis and President Obama met for the first time on Thursday at the Vatican, and greeted each other with smiles and a handshake. The two are expected to discuss shared priorities such as poverty, conflict, and religious freedom. The president is also expected to invite Pope Francis for his first visit to the U.S. next year as pontiff. However, the visit was preceded by a story on Vatican Radio, the Holy See's official mouthpiece, which said the visit was taking place amid "a complex phase" of the relationship between the Vatican and the United States, marked by "controversy on the implementation of health-care reform having to do with the rules on mandatory health-care coverage of sterilization, contraception, and abortion; and on other issues at the center of the public debate in the United States, such as the legalization of homosexual marriages." Every U.S. president has met with the reigning pope since 1959.

TOUCHDOWN

The National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday that college football players at Northwestern University can unionize because they are employees under federal law. The group, led by former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, seeks safety and academic reforms for players, many of whom are spending up to 50 hours a week on football. (They are not seeking a pay-for-play agreement.) If upheld by courts, the decision would only apply to private schools like Northwestern, since public universities are subject to state labor laws.


GO GET 'EM
Obama Calls Out E.U. On Sanctions
For holding back from hitting Russia.
GUESS WHO?
S. Korea Prez 'Blabbering' Peasant
Says North Korea.
MH 370
Official: Pilot Bears Sole Blame
Investigator says anonymously to USA Today.
Horrible
Landslide Deaths Jump to 24
First victim identified.
OH CRAP
Many Small Meals Diets Ineffective
Study says it fails to boost metabolism or lose weight.

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