Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is Save us from that dark and scary Obamacare!
• Energy chief says Hanford hole filled: Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said Thursday that workers have filled a hole in a nuclear waste storage tunnel that caused the evacuation of thousands at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to avoid the possibility they would be exposed to sources of high levels of radiation.The hole was discovered Tuesday at the 75-year-old former nuclear weapons production complex. According to Perry, the hole created by the 400-square foot partial collapse of the tunnel roof had been filled by more than 50 truckloads of dirt put in place by workers in protective gear.
• Researchers hope to produce a battery pack giving cars a 620-mile range by 2020: Mobile Energy Storage Systems at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden, Germany has been working on means of putting a more efficient battery system into the same space as in a Tesla, but with about twice the range.
• Dept. of Labor opens door for states to drug-test jobless people before providing aid.
• Fox News has paid out $45 million in sexual harassment cases, $10 this year alone: Gretchen Carlson got the most—$20 million. But then there were the payouts to the harassers themselves. Bill O’Reilly reportedly raked in $25 million and Roger Ailes got $40 million.
• Candidate for Top 20 funniest newspaper corrections of all time: From The Washington Post:
This story has been updated to more precisely describe White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s location late Tuesday night in the minutes before he briefed reporters. Spicer huddled with his staff among bushes near television sets on the White House grounds, not ‘in the bushes,’ as the story originally stated.
• Mother Jones has asked a bunch of activists what is on the Resistance Reading list.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, the Comey firing fallout continues. Greg Dworkin rounds up those stories, the Russian WH visit, the invention of “priming the pump,” and a curious story to watch out of the Bahamas. Armando has more on Comey, Rosenstein & the collapse of everything decent.
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