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WASHINGTON (AP) — Powerful Republican conservatives are threatening to sink the new GOP health care bill, which they say is too close to the Obama administration's health care law, and some of them have dubbed it "Obama 2.0." Meanwhile President Donald Trump is promising to meet with conservative leaders to discuss the bill today. Meanwhile, lawmakers in two committees will start voting on the legislation, in what are expected to be marathon sessions.
UNDATED (AP) — Women in the United States are being asked to take the day off and not spend their money in an effort to show their economic power and impact on American society. Today is called "A Day Without a Woman," and it coincides with the U.N.-designated International Women's Day. Meanwhile, scores of women working in the childcare industry in Australia have walked off the job early to protest what they deem inadequate pay rates.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The president of the European Parliament is promising that a Polish lawmaker will be punished for the crude, sexist comments he made last week. During a debate on the pay gap between men and women, Janusz Korwin-Mikke (YAH'-noosh KOHR'-vihn MY'-keh) said, "Of course women must earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent. They must earn less, that's all." He could face sanctions such as a reprimand, a fine or a temporary suspension.
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Authorities are looking into why a tour bus was hit by a freight train in Biloxi, Mississippi Tuesday, killing four and leaving 40 hurt, seven of them critically. The bus was transporting Texas tourists visiting Gulf Coast casinos when he was hit yesterday afternoon. Witnesses say the bus appeared to have been stuck on the train tracks. Authorities say the CSX Transportation locomotive pushed the bus about 300 feet before coming to a stop with the mangled bus still straddling the tracks.
SPRINGFIELD, Fla. (AP) — Officials in Springfield, Florida say their former website has been taken over by someone posting pornography. The Panama City News Herald (https://goo.gl/hbNFwq ) says the Florida Panhandle city began receiving complaints last week from citizens who were visiting the city's old website. Mayor Ralph Hammond says Springfield apparently let the old domain name expire, and the site now contains porn.
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