5 things you need to know Tuesday
1. Free agents find their homes
The competition for NFL free agents is intense this year with the salary cap increasing and many reported (premature) contract agreements. Teams were given a three-day window beginning Saturday to meet with representatives of free agents. Players can be signed after 4 p.m. ET Tuesday. But it sounds like Ndamukong Suh already has arrangements with Miami, Jeremy Maclin with Kansas City, and Frank Gore and Byron Maxwell with Philadelphia. Here are the top 10 free agents to watch.
2. Oklahoma frat in racist video has to clear out by midnight
Members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity have until midnight Tuesday to remove their belongings from the fraternity house after a video surfaced online Sunday that showed its members chanting racist remarks. School President David Boren said the university had severed ties with the fraternity and is exploring disciplinary action against individual students involved in the incident, particularly those seen leading the chant.
3. Uber shifts gears to focus on women drivers
Uber, which has been blasted in recent months for its "frat boy" culture, will announce Tuesday it will create 1 million jobs for women drivers over the next five years. That means that by 2020, Uber plans to grow its number of female drivers by more than seven times its current total U.S. driving force. Even assuming half of its drivers are female by 2020, that's astounding growth.
4. Senators to introduce bill easing federal restrictions on medical marijuana
Senators Rand Paul, Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker will introduce a bipartisan bill to remove federal prohibitions on medical marijuana in states where it has been made legal. The legislation would aim to prevent a repeat of the "Kettle Falls Five" case where federal prosecutors tried to convince a jury that a cancer-stricken man and his family were illegally growing and distributing marijuana in Washington state, where both medical and recreational marijuana use is legal. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana and advocates say that even in those states, the federal prohibition on marijuana prevents doctors at veterans' facilities from prescribing it for medical purposes and makes access difficult.
5. New York mourns Cardinal Egan
Cardinal Edward Egan, who anointed the dead, distributed rosaries and presided over funerals after the World Trade Center attacks, will be remembered Tuesday at his own funeral. Egan died Thursday at 82. He retired in 2009 after nine years of leading the Archdiocese of New York, which serves about 2.6 million Catholics in about 400 parishes in parts of the city and its northern suburbs.
And, the essentials:
Weather: A wet — but not white — Tuesday is on tap for parts of the East while mostly clear skies rule the West.
Stocks: Asia markets declined and U.S. stock futures traded flat.
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