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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with President Obama during a meeting in the Oval Office March 3, 2014 in Washington, D.C.(Photo: Andrew Harrer, Getty Images)
Israel's Netanyahu<span style="color: Red;">*</span>visits Obama in the Oval Office
The White House concedes that President Obama has had his differences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the two leaders will try to work past their<span style="color: Red;">*</span>disagreements<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to make progress on a wide range of security issues involving Iran,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Syria<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Palestinian conflict. Their job won't be made any easier by Netanyahu's recent appointment of a spokesman who<span style="color: Red;">*</span>suggested that Obama is anti-Semitic in an old Facebook post. Threats from radical Islam and Iran will likely<span style="color: Red;">*</span>be the focus of their talk as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the administration<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has given up on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a breakthrough between Israelis and Palestinians while Obama is in office.
Investigation reveals states' ethics laws are laced with loopholes
Reporters at the Center for Public Integrity measured hundreds of variables to compile transparency and accountability grades for all 50 states. The best grade in the nation, which went to Alaska, is just a C. Only two others earned better than a D+ and 11 states got an F. The results may be deflating to the two-thirds of Americans who, according to a recent poll, look to the states for policy solutions as gridlock has overtaken the federal government.
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Faculty group, football team join Mizzou activists as president meets with board
Months of racial unrest at the University of Missouri are coming to a head, as more than 30 players from the football team have thrown their support behind student activists and promised to boycott football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns. A group of professors is also joining the cause, trying to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>rally<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fellow faculty members to walk out of classes on Monday. Wolfe has been criticized for his handling of a series of race related incidents on campus, including a swastika drawn with feces on a college dorm wall. Wolfe, who is slated to meet with the Board of Curators Monday, has said he has no plans of resigning.
Supporters raise the fists in solidarity during a rally, Nov. 4, 2015 at Traditions Plaza on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: John Happel, AP)
Experts dig into the the cause of IHOP parking lot collapse
Hungry customers at a Mississippi IHOP this weekend discovered that the earth had an appetite of its own, as it devoured more than a dozen cars when a giant hole opened up in the restaurant's parking lot. One safety official says the collapse is not technically a sinkhole, which is usually the result of an underground water aquifer that dries and leaves a void in the ground. Engineers will begin<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Monday to try get to the bottom of what caused the cave-in.
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A cave-in of a restaurant parking lot in Mississippi swallowed 12 cars and now experts are expected to begin work Monday to determine the cause of the weekend collapse, authorities said. (Nov. 8) AP
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