AOL.com's Snapshot: The stories you need to see

By ALEXIS SHAW

Making the news a little more digestible, AOL.com's Snapshot is your quick guide to the biggest stories of the day.

Today we're following Congress' return to business as usual on Capitol Hill, the release of more shocking footage of Ray Rice and the harsh realities for nearly 100,000 Palestinians in the aftermath of the Hamas-Israel conflict.

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