88,000
— Number of American jobs added in March. In February, the US added 236,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remains at 7.6%.
Biden to Take Paycut Only if Employees Are Hit by Sequester
Exclusive: Vice President Joe Biden will take a paycut if members of his staff are affected by budget cuts stemming from sequestration.
Morning Must Reads: April 5
In the news: Texas, Roger Ebert, sequestration pay cuts, Obama’s budget.
Democrats Ready To Deal On Gun Control?
Barring a dramatic turnaround, the Democrats now face a choice of either walking away from any expanded background check or accepting one without paper records of private sales.
Bill Nelson Now Endorses Gay Marriage
Bill Nelson (D-Fl.) endorses gay marriage, leaving only six Senate Democrats who don’t
“She’s brilliant and she’s dedicated, she’s tough…She also happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general...It’s true! C’mon.”
— President Barack Obama speaking about California Attorney General Kamala Harris at a DNC lunch fundraiser in Atherton, California, according to the Dallas Morning News' Todd Gillman.
Roger Ebert R.I.P.
Ebert was a great film critic, a joyful viewer who always preached that great art and popular entertainment were not exclusive.
Elizabeth Dias on the Latino Reformation
TIME’s Elizabeth Dias stopped by the NewsNation set to discuss her new cover story “Evangélicos!”
52%
— of Americans support making marijuana legal, according to the Pew Research Center. It is the highest support for the drug in Pew's 40 years of polling on the issue. In 1969, 84% of Americans opposed legalizing marijuana.
TIME Looks Back: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here is how TIME covered the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 45 years ago.
Holder, Kerry to Take Pay Cut
The Attorney General will return $10,750 in salary, and the Secretary of State will donate $9,175 to a charity for his department’s employees.
In the ArenaBarack Obama
More Brill, More Obamacare Incompetence
Obama barely scratches the surface of what needs to be done—there is no creative destruction in government, regulations pile up on top of each other like silt, generation after generation.
Morning Must Reads: April 4
In the news: Guam vs. North Korea, Rand Paul, LA traffic lights, Maryland’s gun control law, “illegal immigrant.”