• The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the Far Right’s rude way of trying to re-criminalize marijuana
• Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about how Sen. Ted Cruz raised money off the government shutdown
• South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday likened the actions of the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry Sewol to murder, as police made more four arrests and divers continued searching the submerged vessel.
• A robotic submarine continued scouring a desolate patch of silt-covered seafloor in the Indian Ocean for any trace of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. The unmanned sub has spent nearly a week searching for the plane’s black boxes and has covered about two-thirds of its focused search area.
• The Russian government said today it is “outraged” by a shootout over the weekend near Slovyansk that left at least three dead, saying the attack was carried out by a Ukrainian right-wing nationalist group.
• Guarded by extra police officers and monitored by more security cameras, 36,000 runners will step off in the town of Hopkinton this morning and make their way to the same Boston Marathon finish line where two bombs went off within seconds last year.
