The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- Boston bombers initially planned 4th of July attack
- Paul Krugman: Not Enough Inflation
- Charles Krauthammer: Obama: The Fall
- Peggy Noonan: Is Obama a Lame Duck Already?
- John Dickerson: Obama should keep his distance from Republicans
- Sen Marco Rubio: Committed to immigration reform
- Pentagon has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran’s most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site.
- Salman Rushdie on Chinese censorship.
- Likely new head of FCC has close ties to companies the organization regulates.
- The Howard Kurtz saga
- Battle on Mount Everest