The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
News
- Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
- CIA pushed to get Boston bomber on terror watch list
- Greece wants Germany to pay WWII reparations
- Senators are concerned Homeland Security Department has too much power in new immigration bill
- Retiring Sen. Max Baucus is not well liked
Opinion
- Ezra Klein: Obamacare will be like Medicare Part D and have problems when it is first implemented. Republicans will gain favor by ripping it, and then Democrats in the longterm will hold it up as a key party achievement.
- Robert Samuelson: The Reinhart/Rogoff brawl: debt still limits growth, although not as severely as originally thought
- Fareed Zakaria: Embrace Muslims
- Karl Rove: The Bush Character, Four Years Later