| GOP comes up short on health care (again) |
| Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan to replace Obamacare collapsed Monday night. By Tuesday afternoon, his backup plan looked doomed, too. McConnell, R-Ky., admitted that Republicans didn't have the votes to pass a revised bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. He said the Senate instead would vote on a bill to repeal the law within two years. But at least three of the Senate's moderate Republicans rejected McConnell's idea Tuesday, enough to upend the repeal effort. President Trump, for his part, seemed content to do nothing. "We'll let Obamacare fail," he told reporters. |
| Have a craving for Amazon Prime rib? |
| It appears Amazon wants a serving of the meal kits business. Amazon had 17 meal kits listed Monday on its Amazon Fresh website, featuring meals that included burgers and tacos. As of Tuesday, the meal kits are gone. Amazon hasn't explained why, but one company feeling the heat: Blue Apron. Shares in the meal kit maker plunged after the Amazon news hit. Hope those meal kits come with a treatment for heartburn. |
| A 75-year mystery solved, thanks to a melting glacier |
| On Aug. 15, 1942, Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin went to milk their cows in Switzerland's Valais canton, then they disappeared, leaving behind seven children. Their bodies were finally discovered 75 years later in the Alps near a melted glacier. Their youngest daughter, Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, said she plans to give them the funeral they deserve, only she won't wear black. "I think that white would be more appropriate. It represents hope, which I never lost." |
| It's not easy being green |
| Last week, Steve Whitmire said he was devastated by getting fired as the voice of Kermit the Frog after 27 years. We've now learned what led to his split with Muppet Studios. "We raised concerns about Steve's repeated unacceptable business conduct over a period of many years and he consistently failed to address the feedback," Muppet Studios told The Hollywood Reporter. Whitmire told The Reporter he still doesn't understand what happened. No word on Miss Piggy's reaction. |
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| Illicit cookie could've kept The Juice from getting loose |
| Of all the reasons O.J. Simpson could have stayed behind bars, it was a cookie that almost cost the former football star his chance at freedom. According to former prison guard Jeffrey Felix, Simpson was once caught in his cell with a cookie that another inmate had swiped. Felix — who described Simpson's prison as a "cruise ship with barbed wire" — was able to keep the infraction off the books. Simpson is expected to be granted parole after a hearing Thursday for his 2007 conviction for robbing sports memorabilia. But if that guard had given Simpson a violation for contraband, that might not have been the way the cookie crumbled. |
| This is a compilation of stories from across USA TODAY. |
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