Keystone XL Defeated (For Now), Airbag Recall, Another Accusation Against Cosby
Here's what I'm reading up on this morning:
- The Senate comes up one vote short on approving Keystone XL; this, of course, only means a Republican majority will try again soon.
- Six die as frigid temperatures grip the United States.
- Miss Honduras, María José Alvarado, and her sister, Sofia Trinidad, are killed in the murder capital of the world.
- Protestors in Hong Kong attempt to force their way into the legislature.
- The federal government wants to expand the recall on Takata airbags to all states on millions of Fords, Hondas, Chryslers, Mazdas and Bimmers from 2008 and older.
- The dollar hits a seven-year high against the yen just ahead of notes from the Fed's meeting.
- Goodbye, Topsy. Hello Twitter search.
- She said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said and she said--and he said: another woman, Janice Dickinson, accuses Bill Cosby of rape.
- A Brooklyn woman who was being monitored for Ebola dies, but tests negative for the virus.