Economics and persuasion

March 28, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

Mr. Putin’s nationalistic policies aren’t making life better.

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Weary rescuers pressed through rain and their own exhaustion Thursday, searching for more bodies atop the pile of filth and debris that laid waste to a Washington State town and killed at least 25 people. The main goal now is to find more bodies and winnow the list of the 90 people who are missing in the mudslide that buried the community of Oso on Saturday.

Face to face for the first time, President Obama and Pope Francis focused publicly on their mutual respect and shared concern for the poor on Thursday at the Vatican. But their lengthy private discussion also highlighted the deep differences between the White House and the Roman Catholic Church on abortion and birth control. The gaps were evident in the differing accounts Obama and the Vatican gave of the meeting.

Planes and ships searching for debris suspected of being from the missing Malaysian jetliner failed to find any Thursday before bad weather cut their search short, as Thailand said one of its satellites had spotted hundreds of objects in the area. The Thai satellite spotted the objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean near an area where planes and ships have been searching unsuccessfully for a week for any sign of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8 with 239 people aboard.

The US Air Force took the extraordinary step Thursday of firing nine midlevel nuclear commanders and announcing it will discipline dozens of junior officers at a nuclear missile base, responding firmly to an exam-cheating scandal that spanned a far longer period than originally reported. A 10th commander, the senior officer at the base, resigned and will retire.

The number of people seeking US unemployment benefits fell 10,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 311,000, the lowest since late November and a hopeful sign hiring could pick up. The Labor Department says the four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, fell 9,500 to 317,750.

The Philippine government signed a peace accord with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group on Thursday, the culmination of years of negotiations and a significant political achievement for President Benigno Aquino III.

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday pledged $18 billion in loans to prop up Ukraine’s sinking economy, as the nation’s prime minister forecast more pain ahead without reforms that will affect nearly everyone in the country. Meanwhile, in a show of solidarity with President Obama, Congress spoke with one voice Thursday against Russia’s annexation of Crimea, overwhelmingly backing legislation in the House and Senate to aid cash-strapped Ukraine and punish Russia.

Lawyers hired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration said Thursday that the governor was not involved in a plot last year to create traffic gridlock in a political payback scheme, a conclusion that left the lead lawyer defending the integrity of his report.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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