- A rare meeting of all 100 US Senators failed to bring about a deal to avert Dem Senate majority leader Harry Reid's promise to change filibuster rules involving Cabinet nominations.
- A North Dakota judge has struck down the state's 2011 law banning medical abortions, citing "contrived and pretexual" reasons behind the state law.
- Mexican military forces have captured Miguel Angel Trevino near Nuevo Laredo, wanted by both US and Mexican law enforcement as kingpin of the infamous Los Zetas drug cartel.
- After shifting funds, the Air Force's Thunderbirds demonstration flight team is in the air again after being grounded by sequestration cuts to the Pentagon.
- The console that made Nintendo a worldwide phenomenon, Japan's Famicom, turns 30 this week, as the predecessor to the American NES defined gaming in the 80's.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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