- The April jobs report is significantly better than feared: Non-farm payrolls swelled by 244,000 as the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.0%.
- The video of bin Laden’s burial at sea may be released.
- Al-Qaeda after bin Laden.
- He was plotting U.S. rail attacks.
- Obama will meet today with the Navy Seals who carried out the operation.
- Harriet Miers is now lobbying for Pakistan.
- John Kerry and Dick Lugar attempt damage control.
- Ezra Klein worries about Medicaid.
- Creating a cleared derivatives market will be expensive. (So will regulating it.)
- This is important: Which firms will the Financial Stability Oversight Council designate “systemically important”?
- And what happens when candidates don’t buy the .org: “Together, we can make delicious soup from the bones of the poor.”