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• 10. UKRAINE WITHDRAWS FROM BIDDING FOR 2022 WINTER GAMES
• Three cities--Oslo, Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan--are now vying to host the games that no one seems to want.
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AP News in Brief
Obama taps business executive Robert McDonald to oversee troubled Veterans Affairs department
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seeking to turn around a troubled agency, President Barack Obama will nominate former Procter & Gamble executive Robert McDonald to lead a Veterans Affairs department gripped by reports of treatment delays and cover-ups.
• An administration official said Obama planned to nominate McDonald to the Cabinet post on Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, the 61-year-old McDonald would succeed Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as the scope of the issues at veterans' hospitals became apparent.
• McDonald's nomination signals that the president put a premium on management experience as he sought a new VA secretary. McDonald also has a military background, graduating near the top of his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and serving as a captain in the Army, primarily in the 82nd Airborne Division.
• The administration official insisted on anonymity in order to confirm McDonald's appointment before the president's announcement.
• McDonald resigned abruptly from Procter & Gamble in May 2013 amid pressure from investors concerned that he was not doing enough to boost the company's performance.
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Prosecutor: reports show Oscar Pistorius not mentally ill when he killed girlfriend in home
• PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- A panel of mental health experts has concluded that Oscar Pistorius was not suffering from a mental illness when he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home last year, the chief prosecutor at the athlete's murder trial said Monday.
• Pistorius' trial resumed after a break of one month during which a psychologist and three psychiatrists also assessed whether the double-amputee runner was ca (Continued on page 21)
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