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  • For the first time in five years, worldwide military spending is expected to go up, with China and Russia leading the way. The U.S. military budget is facing pressure, but the $600 billion in annual spending is roughly the same as the next 14 countries combined.
  • Forget high-tech gadgets that are supposed to make your life easier. Today, we're writing about ... Nothing. Pim de Graaff, a copywriter from Amsterdam, creates handmade black wooden blocks called Nothing to remind you that you already have enough stuff.
  • Speaking to university students in Florida, Clarence Thomas also said that "the worst I have been treated was by northern liberal elites."
  • When bad weather shuts down school or delays its openings, it locks out many needy kids from a key source of nutrition. Some 70 percent of U.S. schoolchildren who eat school lunches get them for free or at reduced prices.
  • A debilitating winter storm is creating havoc across the Deep South on Wednesday. As much as a foot of snow is expected in Georgia and the Carolinas. Ice will also be a problem: Forecasters say that up to an inch of it will coat roads and power lines. Jim Burress of member station WABE reports from Atlanta that hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity.
  • Wednesday in New Orleans, a federal jury convicted former Mayor Ray Nagin on 20 of 21 corruption counts. The two-term mayor was in office when Hurricane Katrina struck and was the public face of the city during the city's rebuilding. Federal prosecutors say that it was during this time he took bribes to steer rebuilding contracts to businessmen.
  • A huge sinkhole opened beneath part of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., swallowing eight cars. Robert Siegel talks to Katie Frassinelli, the museum's communications manager.
  • An Ohio University professor is on leave after being charged with downloading child pornography.Amol Kharabe was arrested this week at his Dublin home.…
  • Energy efficiency advocates are battling a resolution in the Ohio General Assembly that could change the standards used in the design of public buildings.…
  • John, Keith, and Wayne argue about the new RoboCop (2014). John, of course, dismisses their praise.Film reviewed: RoboCop (2014)by host John DeSando with…
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