Pot is no panacea for Colorado

April 10, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

If it turns out that Colorado is not a marijuana magnet, the implications are interesting.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers Wednesday to cut off contact with their Palestinian counterparts, an official said, the latest in a series of troubles plaguing floundering US-brokered peace talks. The move is retaliation for a Palestinian bid to join United Nations agencies, which the official said was a violation of the Palestinians’ commitment in the peace talks. The Palestinians dismissed the Israeli move, saying both sides rarely meet now as it is.

Russian President Vladimir Putin turned up the heat on Ukraine on Wednesday by threatening to demand advance payment for gas supplies, a move designed to exert economic pressure as Ukraine confronts possible bankruptcy.

A bomb ripped through a fruit and vegetable market on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Wednesday morning, killing at least 22 people and leaving dozens more wounded, officials said. The massive blast was the latest attack to shake Pakistan even as government negotiations with the Taliban pick up pace in an attempt by the authorities to resolve years of deadly fighting. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Flailing away with two knives, a 16-year-old boy with a”blank expression” stabbed and slashed 19 students and a police officer in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school in Murrysville Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him. At least five students were critically wounded. The motive was under investigation.

Six days after a family of four found themselves helpless and adrift in a sailboat far into the Pacific with an ill 1-year-old aboard, a Navy warship delivered them safely to San Diego, where they had begun their attempted around-the world voyage before the child was born.

President Obama returned to the grieving Army post Wednesday where he first took on the job as the nation’s comforter five years ago, mourning with families and uniformed comrades of those killed during last week’s Fort Hood, Texas, shooting spree. “We somehow bear what seems unbearable,” he declared.

The European Union’s executive arm is curbing subsidies for renewable energies to help drive electricity prices down. The European Commission on Wednesday laid out stricter rules on the extent to which the bloc’s 28 member states may support the generation of power from renewable sources such as solar, wind, or biomass.

Republicans blocked a Senate bill Wednesday aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women, an election-year ritual that Democrats hope will help spur women to back them in this fall’s congressional elections. GOP lawmakers said the measure could hinder employers from granting raises, or permitting flexible hours in exchange for lower pay, for fear of costly lawsuits. For Democrats, the bill was the latest stressing income-fairness they are pushing this campaign season.

Compiled from wire service reports

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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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