Obama at the Vatican, Wu Tang's Art and a Dwarf Planet

Here's what I've been reading up on this morning.

By Aura Bogado Mar 27, 2014

Here's what I've been reading up on this morning:

Obama and Kerry meet the Pope. Wild guess: they're not discussing Hobby Lobby.

Amnesty's annual death penalty report is out; the US remains the only country in the Americas that executes people, and is fourth on the worldwide executors list.

Meanwhile, Japan frees the world's longest held death-row inmate.

90 people are still missing as a result of the Washington mud slide.

Not sure I can take Nate Silver seriously anymore after reading this.

The GDP expands higher than expected to 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter.

And jobless claims fall lower than expected.

Preparing for its IPO, cloud computing is thinking outside of the, um, Box.

C.R.E.A.M., get the money. Wu Tang will sell one copy of its new album that you can pay to listen to at a museum.

Live better, play union. The NLRB confirms that college football players can unionize.

India eliminates polio. But Orange County, California has a measles outbreak.

Thanks to federal public funding, Chad Trujillo observes a planet on the edges of our solar system--80 AU away in the Oort cloud.

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