The News This Week
As usual, it was another very busy week for news in our nation and our world.
Here's a brief run-down of some of the highlights that I caught, including 2 troubling news items about Zika (see previous MattChat post)........
* World Health Organization declares Zika an international emergency
* ..... and Zika discovered to be transmittable by sex
* Iowa caucus chooses Hillary and Ted
* Huckabee, Santorum and Rand Paul all end their presidential bids
* groundhog out in Pennsylvania predicts an early spring
* Alphabet tops Apple as the most valuable U.S. company
* Yahoo to lay off 15% of staff
* Cosby sexual assault case will go to trial
* IRS computer issues shut down tax return e-file system
* nearly 13 million Americans signed up for Obamacare ahead of the January 31 deadline
* Twitter suspends 125,000 ISIL-related accounts
* North Korea fires a long-range rocket
* Brett Favre headlines the 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame class
* Nasdaq ends week at lowest level since October 2014
* huge construction crane collapses in Manhattan
* chain of e-mails show that officials knew of Flint water disease risk
* Obama seeks new tax on oil in his 2017 budget proposal
* ..... and Obama visits a U.S. mosque to counter anti-Muslim rhetoric
* DNA traces found of U.S. Marines killed in helicopter crash off Hawaii
* Chicago sees January murder count surge
* U.S. Justice Department launches review of San Francisco police
* Twenty-First Century Fox offers employees buyouts to save $250 million in costs
* FBI continues to negotiate with defiant Oregon refuge holdouts
* retired general and ex-CIA chief David Petraeus to receive no further punishment
* toy-makers Mattel and Hasbro hold talks regarding a possible merger
Wow..... two of the world's largest toy manufacturers looking at combining forces. That is unbelievable to me, but crazy things happen, right?
Out for now........
Matt
Here's a brief run-down of some of the highlights that I caught, including 2 troubling news items about Zika (see previous MattChat post)........
* World Health Organization declares Zika an international emergency
* ..... and Zika discovered to be transmittable by sex
* Iowa caucus chooses Hillary and Ted
* Huckabee, Santorum and Rand Paul all end their presidential bids
* groundhog out in Pennsylvania predicts an early spring
* Alphabet tops Apple as the most valuable U.S. company
* Yahoo to lay off 15% of staff
* Cosby sexual assault case will go to trial
* IRS computer issues shut down tax return e-file system
* nearly 13 million Americans signed up for Obamacare ahead of the January 31 deadline
* Twitter suspends 125,000 ISIL-related accounts
* North Korea fires a long-range rocket
* Brett Favre headlines the 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame class
* Nasdaq ends week at lowest level since October 2014
* huge construction crane collapses in Manhattan
* chain of e-mails show that officials knew of Flint water disease risk
* Obama seeks new tax on oil in his 2017 budget proposal
* ..... and Obama visits a U.S. mosque to counter anti-Muslim rhetoric
* DNA traces found of U.S. Marines killed in helicopter crash off Hawaii
* Chicago sees January murder count surge
* U.S. Justice Department launches review of San Francisco police
* Twenty-First Century Fox offers employees buyouts to save $250 million in costs
* FBI continues to negotiate with defiant Oregon refuge holdouts
* retired general and ex-CIA chief David Petraeus to receive no further punishment
* toy-makers Mattel and Hasbro hold talks regarding a possible merger
Wow..... two of the world's largest toy manufacturers looking at combining forces. That is unbelievable to me, but crazy things happen, right?
Out for now........
Matt
