10 Things to Know for Today - 27 March 2018
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. TRAIN'S ARRIVAL IN BEIJING SPARKS SPECULATION OF KIM VISIT
If it was Kim Jong Un, it would be his first known trip outside of North Korea since the death of his father seven years ago. It was a short visit, whoever it was, with a further flurry of activity at the train station.
A limousine without car plates and bearing a gold color emblem on its side arrives amid heavy security at the train station in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 27, 2018. The activity followed the arrival Monday of a train resembling one used by North Korea's previous leader, and a foreign guesthouse in Beijing had a heavy security presence overnight. Some media have speculated that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was making a surprise visit to China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
2. HOW TO GET NOTICED IN TRUMP'S DC
With suggestive statements, cryptic tweets, provocative lawsuits and must-see TV interviews, the president's political foils are using some of his own tactics to grab the spotlight.
3. #METOO MOVEMENT SPREADING TO PENITENTIARIES
State legislatures, corrections officials and the federal government are acting to rectify the lack of feminine hygiene supplies in jails and prisons.
4. WHAT MCCONNELL WANTS TO 'PARDON'
The Senate majority leader wants to legalize hemp, saying it's time to free the plant from its ties to marijuana and let it take root as a legitimate crop.
5. WHY FACEBOOK'S ANDROID APP WAS ABLE TO COLLECT DATA
The short answer is Google, which allowed the social network to siphon off records of who its users were contacting - and when.
6. RUSSIAN MALL FIRE WAS 'CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, SLOPPINESS'
Those are the words of Vladimir Putin as thousands rallied in a Siberian city to demand an investigation into the blaze that killed at least 64 people, many of them children.
7. CHIEF FIGURE IN SCHOOL SEGREGATION CASE DIES
Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, was 75.
8. NEW CARS GETTING SELF-DRIVING SAFETY FEATURES
Car and tech companies are rolling out laser sensors, artificial intelligence and systems that slow cars ahead of curves and construction zones.
9. WHAT IS 'TRULY ALARMING' TO SCIENTISTS
The winter calving season for critically endangered right whales has nearly ended with zero newborns spotted in the U.S. Southeast in the past four months.
10. CONTINUITY PAYING OFF FOR RAPTORS
Toronto, closing in on the No. 1 spot in the NBA's Eastern Conference, is nearing a franchise-record win total and has a core driven by past playoff shortcomings.
Firefighters work at the scene of the multi-story shopping center after a fire, in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 26, 2018. Russian officials say a fire at a shopping mall in a Siberian city has killed over 50 people. The Ekho Mosvky radio station quoted witnesses who said the fire alarm did not go off and that the staff in the mall in Kemerovo did not organize the evacuation. (AP Photo)
FILE- In this April 10, 2017, file photo, Luminar CEO Austin Russell gestures while looking at a 3D lidar map on a demonstration drive in San Francisco. Smaller versions of those spinning 360-degree mechanical laser sensors that sit atop self-driving cars are coming to mainstream vehicles. The lasers, called Lidar for Light Detection and Ranging, can see far-off objects in the dark, in bad weather, and in great detail. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
