- Tokyo Electric Power Company officials are abandoning attempts to recover a robotic probe stranded inside one of the damaged Fukushima reactors that melted down four years ago.
- A US federal judge has sentenced four former Blackwater guards to lengthy prison sentences for their roles in the 2007 civilian massacre in Baghdad's Nisour Square.
- President Obama will meet today with new Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi at the White House to discuss aid, the Islamic State, Iran, and other issues.
- UK PM David Cameron is turning to a Margaret Thatcher-era policy of selling homes owned by local councils to prospective homeowners at a large discount ahead of next month's general elections.
- With the FCC officially publishing its rules for net neutrality on Monday, internet providers have immediately filed suit against the FCC and are demanding a permanent injunction stopping them.
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
I'm on episode 4, and I love it. Vincent D'Onofrio is one helluva scary azz villain. And, I love the guy who plays Daredevil.
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