....U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez intended to call a press conference today to mark Mother's Day by drawing attention to improving pay and working conditions for women in New Jersey.

But he nixed that idea to instead draw attention to a group of women half a world away waiting to hear the fate of the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by an Islamic extremist group three weeks ago.

"I feel compelled to turn attention to the mothers in Nigeria who sent their girls to school to learn and today are hoping for nothing more than to bring their daughters home," said Menendez (D-N.J.).

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