The Best of the Week’s News 

• A teenager is facing life in prison because she tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine after her baby was born dead from an obstetrical complication.

• Chris Christie’s cronies are managing state pension funds and taking big risks.

• Bowles-Simpson icon grudgingly admits he was wrong.

• Texas college student fatally shot by police was hit in the back, autopsy reveals.

• Wall Street Journal raves for All of Me a weight-loss surgery documentary that premieres on Monday at 10pm Eastern on PBS’s Independent Lens.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]