Hip-Pop Hooray! On Thursday, President Obama announced that 8 million people have signed up for plans through the Healthcare.gov insurance exchange, crushing the original 7 million enrollment goal. “This thing is working,” Obama said. Read about it here…[ThinkProgress]
An arrest has been made in connection to the death of Canadian teen Amanda Todd, who committed suicide after chronicling her online harassment. “Royal Canadian Mounted Police Insp. Paulette Freill said a suspect has been arrested in the Netherlands and charged with extortion, luring and criminal harassment and possession of child pornography for the purpose of distribution. Police did not release the name of the 35-year-old man and declined to release specifics of the case but said there were other victims in Canada and internationally.” Read about it here…[Jezebel]
In what Secretary of State John Kerry is describing as an important first step to avert “a complete and total implosion” in eastern Ukraine, the United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union reached an agreement that calls for armed pro-Russian bands to give up the government buildings they have seized in eastern Ukraine and outlines other steps to de-escalate the crisis. Read about the measures here…[NYT]
Meanwhile, in Florida…a man named Edward Cocaine was arrested for drug possession. We can’t make this stuff up. Watch a stunned judge react to the irony here…[Gawker]
