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Tony Abbott leadership is under intense pressure as MPs start speaking out against his capacity and one calls for a spill at the first opportunity. Follow it live... 
Joe Hockey, Mathias Cormann and Christopher Pyne speak up for the prime minister, dismissing concerns of ‘a few of our very upset backbenchers’ 
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Freedom of information request by Sea Shepherd and No WA Shark Cull Inc the first attempt in Australia to use FOI to access physical objects 
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The Carmichael coal mine project will go ahead in Queensland without the incentives offered to Adani by the previous government 
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The prime minister says he is determined to bring back 'the certainty and stability that people crave' as he continues to face speculation about his leadership 




Staying Safe Behind the Wheel

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Randy Jackson on Life With Diabetes
It took a diabetes diagnosis for the former American Idol judge to start getting serious about his health.
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The President's budget proposal probably won't help America's dying bridges

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The President's budget proposal probably won't help America's dying bridges 

On Monday, President Obama proposed a nearly $4 trillion budget for the fiscal-year 2016. As part of this budget, Obama proposed a 25% increase to infrastructure and transportation spending.

To fund this increase, Obama's budget proposed a one-time tax holiday that would allow US companies holding cash overseas to repatriate this money at reduced tax rate of 14%. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rand Paul (R-KY) have proposed a separate plan to tax repatriated earnings at 6.5%. 

So, quite a gulf between repatriation proposals, and without a plan to bring foreign earnings back to the US, infrastructure investment is probably not happening this year. 

In a note to clients in January, Goldman Sachs' Alec Phillips foresaw this hangup in a report that outlined the problem facing America's bridges, a majority of which are approaching the end of their functional life. Phillips wrote: 
"While core infrastructure in the US could clearly use improvements, our expectation is that they will occur only slowly ... Eventually, federal reform is inevitable but it is far from clear that it will come about as part of this year’s debate on infrastructure financing."

And this prediction seems to have come true. 

In a note on Tuesday, Phillips said that without the repatriation holiday, infrastructure will not get the funding the White House seeks this year. 

And while the government could borrow this money to increase infrastructure funding, it seems unlikely that Congress would go along with this plan. 

All the while, America's bridges aren't getting any younger and the average age of America's roads have been trending higherconsistently for a century.
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New ISIS video shows Jordanian pilot being burned alive

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A New Twist on Salmon

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Delicious, warm white beans and fennel are topped with succulent fennel-seed-crusted salmon for a double hit of flavor.

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Evening Edition: Everything you need to know about measles

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Islamic State video purports to show captured pilot being burned to death
AMMAN, Jordan — The Islamic State released a video Tuesday that purports to show its fighters burning alive a Jordanian pilot who was captured in December by the extremist group after his plane crashed during a U.S.-led bombing run over Syria.   Read full article »
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Harper Lee to publish sequel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, “There are no second acts in American lives,” but Harper Lee is out to prove him wrong.The beloved author will publish her second novel this summer. “Go Set a Watchman” was written more than 50 years ago — before her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird” — but it was never published.  Read full article »
Everything you need to know about measles
Measles is an extremely contagious respiratory infection caused by a virus. Once common in the United States, it was eliminated here in 2000 but is resurgent today, mostly because of the growing number of people who are refusing to vaccinate their children or delaying those vaccinations, experts say.  Read full article »
He’s got a ‘Downton Abbey’-inspired office, but Rep. Aaron Schock won’t talk about it.
The Rayburn House Office Building is a labyrinth of beige offices. And then, there’s . . . Rep. Aaron Schock’s new digs. Bright red walls. A gold-colored wall sconce with black candles. A Federal-style bull’s-eye mirror with an eagle perched on top. And this is just the Illinois Republican’s outer office.  Read full article »
Senator says maybe restaurants shouldn’t make employees wash their hands
Once we’re done debating whether children should be vaccinated, we can move on to other pressing public health questions, such as whether eateries can force their employees to wash their hands after they use the bathroom.  Read full article »
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Charlie Sheen and silverware? Not a good combo.
Actor Charlie Sheen hasn’t left the building.Continuing his seemingly random tour of D.C institutions, Sheen was spotted at Charlie Palmer Steak on Monday afternoon.The professional bad boy joined his dear old dad, Martin Sheen (a.k.a. the most beloved pretend president of all time), plus one security detail, just as the power spot’s lunch time crowd was clearing out, at around 3:15 p.m.  Read full article »
GNC, Target, Wal-Mart, Walgreens accused of selling adulterated ‘herbals’
A warning to herbal supplement users: Those store-brand ginkgo biloba tablets you bought may contain mustard, wheat, radish and other substances decidedly non-herbal in nature, but they’re not likely to contain any actual ginkgo biloba.  Read full article »
There’s a battle brewing between Uber and Google. Here’s why Google will win.
Racing to win the future of transportation, two companies appear to be heading for a pretty big crash: Google and Uber.Both firms appear to be crossing into each other's territory. Uber on Monday announced a partnership with Carnegie Mellon that could enable it to get into driverless cars -- a major project in development at Google. And Bloomberg reported that Google is preparing its own ride-hailing service. Both bits of news raised eyebrows in Silicon Valley because Google is a big investor in Uber and one of its top executives sits on the ride-sharing company's board of directors.  Read full article »
A pupil points a finger. A teacher is fired, his life rerouted. Now can they be buddies?
The friend request popped onto Josh Kaplowitz’s Facebook page one afternoon. He was at his office at a top-shelf D.C. law firm, but the name on the screen transported him to a very different place, a decade earlier, to a time of humiliation and failure.  Read full article »