The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- “A deal designed to end Ukraine’s long-running crisis was reached Friday after all-night negotiations that included European and Russian mediators, the office of President Viktor Yanukovych announced.” [WashPost]
- “President Barack Obama’s budget blueprint for the next fiscal year will drop a entitlement program fix he once embraced, in the latest acknowledgement that little progress will be made on the nation’s fiscal issues ahead of the midterm elections.” [TIME]
- “Fannie Mae on Friday reported an annual profit of $84 billion for 2013, a banner year in which strong home-price gains in housing markets across the U.S. powered the mortgage-finance giant to an astounding rebound.” [WSJ]
- Wisc. Gov. Scott Walker’s Scandal Snoozer [Politico]
- “House Republicans have begun jockeying for leadership positions in the next Congress, anticipating the possibility that Speaker John Boehner could step down after the November elections.” [Washington Examiner]
- For Facebook, It’s Users First and Profits Later [NYT]
- “So a French hornist, an economist, a billionaire, a psychologist and the Dalai Lama walk into a conservative think tank…” [Yahoo!]