Subject: Daily News Clips 3/31/14
From: "Sam Losow" <[email-masked]>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:41:26 -0400

*National News:*

*ObamaCare enrollment deadline arrives*
Obama administration officials are making last-minute public appeals urging
Americans to sign up for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act
exchanges before open enrollment
ends<http://theweek.com/article/index/258930/speedreads-obamacare-hits-6-million-sign-ups-as-march-31-deadline-nears>
at
midnight Monday. The White House approved extra time for those who have
tried but been unable to enroll due to glitches, but others will face a
penalty if they are uninsured in 2014. In the last week, ObamaCare
operators fielded a record 2.5 million calls. [*USA
Today*<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/30/monday-health-care-enrollment-deadline-looms/7069619/>
]

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*UConn and Kentucky round out the Final Four*
The Final Four is set. The UConn Huskies upset Michigan State Sunday to
advance to the semi-finals of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Kentucky beat Michigan to win the other slot, joining Wisconsin and overall
No. 1 seed Florida to round out the Final Four. The Gators lost two
games<http://theweek.com/article/index/259016/speedreads-uconn-was-the-last-team-to-beat-florida-this-year-theyll-meet-in-the-final-four>
all
year -- one to UConn, whom they play next, and the other to Wisconsin, whom
they could face in the final. [*Fox
News*<http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/03/30/ncaa-tournament-kentucky-beats-michigan-to-reach-final-four/>
]

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*Kerry and Lavrov deadlock over Crimea*
Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov,
failed to break an
impasse<http://theweek.com/article/index/259004/speedreads-kerry-turns-plane-around-to-renew-ukraine-talks-with-russia>
over
the Crimea crisis on Sunday. Kerry said they held four hours of
constructive talks in Paris, and agreed that diplomats should continue
working on how the contested Ukrainian region, which Russia is annexing,
should be governed. "In the end, Ukrainians are going to have to make that
decision," Kerry said. [*Los Angeles
Times*<http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-us-russia-ukraine-crisis-20140330,0,7364210.story#axzz2xUkfF4qO>
]

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*Erdogan declares his party dominated Turkish elections*
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed victory in local
elections on Sunday, declaring that he and his allies had delivered an
"Ottoman slap" to their rivals. Opposition leaders contested early counts
giving a big lead to Erdogan's party, which faces a corruption probe and
widespread street protests. The vote was seen as a test of strength for
Erdogan, whose party has held power since 2002.
[*CNN*<http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/30/world/europe/turkey-elections/index.html?hpt=hp_t3>
]

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*More crews arrive to hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines plane*
The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 intensified on Monday as 10
planes and 10 shipshunted for fresh
clues<http://theweek.com/article/index/258721/speedreads-new-satellite-images-show-122-possible-objects-related-to-vanished-plane>
in
the sea west of Perth, Australia. On Sunday, crews dismissed suspicious
flotsam as fishing buoys. Investigators hope to find traces of the
aircraft, which disappeared March 8, before the pings of its black boxes
start fading out next week. Relatives of Chinese passengers demanded an
apology from the Malaysian government for declaring that the plane had
crashed. [*The New York
Times*<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370.html?hp&_r=0>
]

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*Tech rivals Apple and Samsung start another legal battle*
Apple and Samsung return to court in California on Monday, continuing their
ongoing legal battle<http://theweek.com/article/index/235074/apple-loses-samsung-court-appeal>.
Apple is demanding $2 billion in damages from its rival, which it says
stole iPhone designs and features. Apple wants a $40 royalty for every
Samsung device running software Apple says it conceived. Samsung hopes to
enlist help from Google engineers who designed the Android system by
getting them to testify they didn't use Apple's ideas. [*The
Guardian*<http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/31/apple-sues-samsung-for-2bn>
]

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*U.N. scientists say climate change is hurting harvests*
Climate change has started cutting into the world's food supply, the United
Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a sweeping
report released Monday. The authors said climate change was once a distant
threat but is now increasingly hurting people "on all continents" and
across every ocean. "It's about people now... not just butterflies and sea
ice," said Virginia Burkett, one of the authors. [*The New York
Times*<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/science/earth/climate.html?hp&_r=0>
, *The Guardian*<http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/climate-change-food-supply-un>
]

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*Earthquake rattles Yellowstone*
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Yellowstone National Park on Sunday. It
was the strongest quake recorded there in 34 years. No damages or injuries
were reported. Yellowstone sits on one of the world's largest
super-volcanoes. A U.S. Geological Survey team was dispatched to tour the
Norris Geyser Basin to see whether the temblor had changed any of
Yellowstone's famous geysers, mud pots, and hot springs.
[*Reuters*<http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-usa-earthquake-yellowstone-idUSBREA2U01920140331>
]
*2016 Presidential News:*

2016ers woo Vegas donor
crowd<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/chris-christie-jewish-donors-105164.html?hp=l11>
LAS VEGAS - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie won hearty applause with major
Jewish donors after a speech Saturday heavy on appeals for GOP unity and
strong support for Israel.

Christie mostly avoided foreign policy specifics, but he enraptured the
crowd gathered for the Republican Jewish Coalition spring meeting with
tales of his own trips to Israel, and criticism of the Obama
administration's foreign policy.

Christie mostly avoided foreign policy specifics, but he enraptured the
crowd gathered for the Republican Jewish Coalition spring meeting with
tales of his own trips to Israel, and criticism of the Obama
administration's foreign policy.

"We cannot have a world where our friends are unsure of whether we'll be
with them, and our enemies are unsure of whether we'll be against them,"
Christie said to loud applause from a crowd where distrust of Obama's
support for Israel runs deep. Christie recounted meeting the hawkish Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an RJC favorite, and being
"extraordinarily taken by his strength and resolve."

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Mike Rogers wants to 'move the needle on the 2016
elections'<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/28/mike-rogers-wants-to-move-the-needle-on-the-2016-elections/>
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/influential-republicans-working-to-draft-jeb-bush-into-2016-presidential-race/2014/03/29/11e33b06-b5f2-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html>
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) surprised his
colleagues Friday by announcing plans not to run for reelection, and to
quit and instead to host a nationally syndicated radio program.

*Biden News:*

*Bill: In-state tuition for undocumented students*
A Democratic lawmaker wants to provide in-state college tuition to
undocumented immigrants who can establish Delaware residency. Sen. Robert
Marshall, D-Wilmington West, is set to introduce legislation in coming days.

The practice, informally in effect for years, Marshall says, would become
permanent under the legislation.

"I cannot offer enough praise to our higher education community for taking
such an enlightened stance today," Marshall said in a release. "But we all
know that administrations can change, boards of trustees can change and
that there is ever-increasing pressure on schools to adjust tuition rates
to help provide the high-quality education students and their families
expect. Putting this policy into law simply guarantees the promise of a
fair tuition rate to future students."

Marshall failed to generate support for his proposed "Tuition Equity Act"
in 2012, after schools said their existing policy was to charge in-state
tuition to students who met state residency requirements, according to the
release.

Under the bill, students could establish residency if they can show they
attended a state public or private school for three years, graduated from a
state public or private school, are between 18 and 35 years old, and
entered the country before they turned 18.

"Delaware has always been a welcoming place, and we want young people who
are smart and motivated to thrive here," said Senate Majority Whip Margaret
Rose Henry, D-Wilmington East, co-sponsor of the bill, in the release. "We
think making sure that children, who are brought to this country and go to
our schools, can pay in-state tuition in our state-supported colleges and
universities. It's a question of simple justice."

-- 
Sam Losow
*Finance Assistant*
Beau Biden, DE Attorney General
Office: (302) 295-8340
Cell: (202) 821-3399
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