Here are today’s top stories in no particular order:
- The UN has reported a decline in the production of cocaine and heroine worldwide. Apparently, the drugs have been replaced by stimulants.
- Oh boy, another politician has admitted to cheating on his wife. South Carolina governor Sanford had a handful of trysts with an Argentinean woman over the last year.
- A Baghdad bombing has killed at least 72 people, wounding at least 135 others. It remains unclear who is to blame for the attack.
- It appears that faulty circuitry is to blame for the tragic DC Metro crash on Monday.
- Five French tourists were welcomed to New York City with a 7-mile police car chase in an unlicensed airport taxi van. I thought that only happened in the movies. So, apparently, did the tourists.