Week Full of Newsiness
Oh, what a week.
The news just keeps rolling.
Here's a summary of some of the highlights that I saw........
- Facebook bans private gun sales on its site
- 37 pages of e-mails from Hillary's private server withheld as "top secret"
- Dow has worst January loss since 2009
- Xerox will split into 2 companies
- Amazon's holday-quarter results disappoint
- Pentagon to expand paid maternity leave to 12 weeks
- Zika virus is spreading explosively
- 1 member of armed group in Oregon standoff killed
- depression screenings recommended for all adults including pregnant women
- Texas grand jury indicts anti-abortion activists behind undercover Planned Parenthood videos
- Trump weiners out and refuses to debate
- world marks 30-year anniversary of Challenger disaster
- Japan reveals first domestic stealth aircraft
- Ethiopia may require as much as $1.4 BILLION in humanitarian aid during 2016 drought
- .....and White House calls for $12 BILLION for U.S. kids' summer meal program
- Oprah earns $12.5 MILLION after a single Weight Watchers tweet
- Federal government in Washington gets 2 snow days
- Chicago begins the new year with most January killings since 2002
- Federal Trade Commission files suit against DeVry University
- Governor Rauner delivers his 2nd State of the State speech
- U.S. on high alert for bird flu after Indiana poultry outbreak
- new U.S. single-family home sales race to 10-month high
- Michigan governor appoints committee to fix Flint water system
- 37 pages of e-mails from Hillary's private server withheld as "top secret"
- Dow has worst January loss since 2009
- Xerox will split into 2 companies
- Amazon's holday-quarter results disappoint
- Pentagon to expand paid maternity leave to 12 weeks
- Zika virus is spreading explosively
- 1 member of armed group in Oregon standoff killed
- depression screenings recommended for all adults including pregnant women
- Texas grand jury indicts anti-abortion activists behind undercover Planned Parenthood videos
- Trump weiners out and refuses to debate
- world marks 30-year anniversary of Challenger disaster
- Japan reveals first domestic stealth aircraft
- Ethiopia may require as much as $1.4 BILLION in humanitarian aid during 2016 drought
- .....and White House calls for $12 BILLION for U.S. kids' summer meal program
- Oprah earns $12.5 MILLION after a single Weight Watchers tweet
- Federal government in Washington gets 2 snow days
- Chicago begins the new year with most January killings since 2002
- Federal Trade Commission files suit against DeVry University
- Governor Rauner delivers his 2nd State of the State speech
- U.S. on high alert for bird flu after Indiana poultry outbreak
- new U.S. single-family home sales race to 10-month high
- Michigan governor appoints committee to fix Flint water system
This Flint water thing is going to go down as one of the biggest government screw-ups in U.S. history. Kids will be suffering the effects of this for decades.
Out for now......
Matt
