1. Bloomberg terminals went dark around the world on Friday morning. The company said it is working to restore service to the ubiquitous news and information portals used in the financial services sector. Bloomberg LP did not provide a reason for the widespread outage.
We are currently restoring service to those customers who were affected by today’s network issue and are investigating the cause.
— Bloomberg LP (@Bloomberg) April 17, 2015
2. Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s Monday evening campaign launch in Miami and subsequent rollout media blitz has moved him into a tie in Florida with its former governor and presumed GOP candidate Jeb Bush. "A good rollout is like a primary win: you get about three days of good media coverage and a little lift in the polls," pollster Bradford Coker told Politico.
3. A Chinese court sentenced veteran journalist Gao Yu to seven years in jail after he was convicted on state secrets charges. Outsiders called it another case of the country cracking down on human rights activists and dissenters.
4. A group of 10 nationally known doctors has called for Columbia University to cut ties with Dr. Mehmet Oz, saying he has an "egregious lack of integrity" for pushing "quack treatments." The university isn’t budging as of yet.
ESPN reporter Britt McHenry suspended after rude rant at parking lot attendant goes viral http://t.co/fwZ95JGFqB pic.twitter.com/cN2jFiZpco
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 16, 2015
6. Vanity Fair has updated an article it ran by NBC News correspondent Richard Engel about his 2012 kidnapping in Syria. The reporter originally said he was abducted by forces loyal to the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, but recently changed his account to say rebel forces were responsible. Engel said he changed the record after new information became available.
