April 3, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:
U.S.
- Fort Hood shooting spree: `Texans hearts are once again very heavy‘(CNN)
- House panel subpoenas on wind power, eagle deaths (UT San Diego)
- Facing near certainty of rape, women illegally crossing border turn to birth control (RawStory)
- Yellowstone National Park rattled by largest earthquake in 34 years (Reuters)
- Colorado River begins flooding Mexican delta (KPBS)
- Local partisans divide on Supreme Court ruling (UT San Diego)
- GM Bailout Claims the Legal Rights of Americans (Reason)
- Why do we make students sit still in class? (CNN)
- Facing the development of U.S. wind energy with a DOE map (ECO report)
- Fallen Marine's Dad Wants Peace At Fred Phelps' Funeral (Video) (KPBS)
WORLD
- Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children (Reuters)
- Iraq electoral commission resigns en masse weeks before vote (Reuters)
- With $1B In Aid For Ukraine, Congress Puts Money Where Its Mouth Is (NPR)
- U.N. official says 'terrifying' level of hatred in Central African Republic (Reuters)
- ‘Black-clad army’ rallies for democracy in Taipei (Taipei Times)
- Obama ready to expand covert aid to Syrian opposition: report (Reuters)
- Exclusive: Russia threatened countries ahead of UN vote on Ukraine - envoys(Reuters)
- New Zealand tops social progress index, world's biggest economies trail (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
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