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ANCHOR: JIM FLINK
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This is Newsy Now and here are the headlines you need to know. In world news-- RT reports France has admitted to arming Libyan rebels.
ANCHOR: “France has become the first country to openly admit it has supplied the Libyan rebels with weapons. A french military spokesman said the arms, including machine guns and rocket propelled grenades, were parachuted in by air to the besieged rebels.”
In U.S. news-- an Ohio Federal Court of Appeals has upheld President Obama’s health care overhaul. The court cited a 1942 case concerning a farmer growing wheat to draw its justification for mandatory health care. MSNBC has details.
PETE WILLIAMS: “The court said today that Congress is actually regulating the market of self insurance for health care. People who try to find some way to cover their costs other than buying insurance the court said it’s a practice that effects interstate commerce by shifting the costs of the uninsured to people who have insurance, just as the wheat farmer effected commerce by growing and consuming his own instead of buying it on the national market.”
More world news -- Russia pulled the plug on the Republic of Belarus -- forcing the country to pay its electricity bill. Euronews has more.
ANCHOR: “Supplier InterRAO said it disconnected the grid because it was owed 30 million euros. It takes some pressure off Belarus, but relations with Moscow are at a low ebb and the the people are grappling with one of the worst economic downturns in nearly two decades. Had Moscow been using energy as a stick with to beat president Lukashenko with? InterRAO says no and that it was simply a case of a company in Belarus signing a payment date agreement and one had been missed.”
In tech news -- CNN reports, Sony knew about the infamous hacking of its Playstation Network days before alerting the public on May 1st.
ANCHOR: “April 19th the government document shows Sony discovered that unplanned operations were running on the network. The next day Sony shut down its network. Users could not log on but did not know why. April 23rd, Sony was able to, quote, ‘confirm an intruder obtained illegal access.’ And for the first time realized the intruder was a hacker.”
Finally, in world news-- Chinese artist and activist Ai Wei Wei is being charged 12 million yuan -- almost two million dollars.
The BBC reports the bill is for unpaid taxes. Since the terms of Ai’s bail prevent him from speaking to the press-- Mr. Ai’s wife said they would request a review of the bill.
Stay with News for more analysis on news throughout the day. For Newsy Now I’m Jim Flink -- highlighting the top headlines making you smarter, faster.
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