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Michelle Obama dances with Ellen DeGeneres on March 12.(Photo: Mike Rozman/ Warner Bros.)
1. Michelle Obama talks to Ellen about 'Let's Move!'
First lady Michelle Obama is on Ellen today to talk about the "Let's Move!" healthy child program — and dancing. First, Mrs. Obama noted that the upcoming White House Easter Egg Roll is devoted to the fifth anniversary of "Let's Move!" and features a social media challenge. "We're asking folks all across the country to (hashtag) #GimmeFive ways they're leading a healthy life," Mrs. Obama told Ellen DeGeneres. Celebrities offering five healthy suggestions include Beyonce, Ryan Seacrest, Nick Jonas and astronauts on the space shuttle, Mrs. Obama said. The first lady then challenged Ellen to the "#GimmeFive dance." Watch their epic moves below.
2. Michigan-made hardwood floor for Final Four to hit the road
The Michigan-made hardwood floor for the NCAA Tournament's Final Four will be hitting the road to Indianapolis today as Connor Sports begins its annual tour. It will be on that floor that the Kentucky Wildcats will seek to become the first Division I team to complete a perfect season since Indiana did it in 1976, and USA TODAY Sports' Nancy Armour believes they can pull it off. You can size up the field for yourself, check out the experts' prediction and print out your own March Madness bracket at the Bracket Hub.
3. Subject of HBO documentary, murder suspect Robert Durst faces hearing after
Robert Durst is expected to appear at a court hearing Monday morning after his arrest in New Orleans this weekend in connection with a Los Angeles murder that took place in 2000. Durst, 71, is a member of a prominent New York City family that owns a multibillion-dollar real-estate company. He has been connected to three mysterious deaths over three decades and is the subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. In the show's finale, which aired Sunday night, Durst was recorded saying to himself, "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course."
New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom On August 15, 2014.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Pat Sullivan, AP)
4. The U.S. is about to hit the debt limit (again)
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has told Congress that he'll once again have to take measures to keep the federal government under the legal debt limit after a suspension of the limit expired yesterday. Beginning today, Lew said the Treasury Department will take "extraordinary measures" to keep the government from defaulting on its debt. Those include a halt to new investments in federal employee pension funds, a moratorium on deposits from state and local governments, and drawing down a $23 billion currency stabilization fund.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in February.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
5. New players join newspapers in using FOIA requests
This week is Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public's right to know. Newspapers were once the dominant force in dislodging documents and other records from reluctant federal government agencies, but a new crop of media players, advocacy groups and corporate interests now drive the release of information. This changing landscape means that the information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act may reach the public in a raw, less contextual form. Or it may reach the public through a particular political prism. Or it may not reach the public at all, remaining in the hands of the private interests that sought it out.
A former FOIA official at the Food and Drug Administration said the agency receives almost three-quarters of a million document requests a year.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Alison Young, USA TODAY)
And, the essentials:
Weather: The national weather forecast for Monday calls for warmer-than-average temperatures for much of the U.S., while the Great Lakes area will see some rain.
Stocks: U.S. stock futures were higher Monday.
TV Tonight: Wondering what to watch tonight? TV critic Robert Bianco looks at Dancing With the Stars and Jane.
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