The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- FBI launches a criminal probe of IRS for its treatment of Tea Party groups
- Attorney General Eric Holder will face a barrage of questions Wednesday on Capitol Hill in the wake of his decision to recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation that has targeted media phone records.
- The deficit is poised to shrink to its lowest level since 2008, and the projected growth in Medicare spending has fallen by $500 billion since August
- Economic output contracted in the Euro zone for a sixth-straight quarter, as a slight recovery in Germany failed to offset recessions in France and Italy
- Dana Milbank: Obama attempts to defeat AP and IRS scandals by doing nothing
- By the Numbers: The Boston Marathon Bombings, one month later
- Pentagon employees will be ordered to take unpaid furloughs of up to 11 days between July 8 and the end of September
- In May the Texas House of Representatives passed twelve bills in a single day designed to soften gun laws
- The government wants to drop the blood alcohol limit for being legally drunk to .05 BAC in order to avoid drunk driving fatalities.
- David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” performed in space