President Obama is about to speak about today’s 1st quarter GDP numbers (3.2% in Q1). Watch it live here.
The most popular parts of Health Care Reform? Those were all our ideas, says Minority Leader John Boehner.
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite announces she will not run for re-election this year, citing poor health.
Six months before Election Day, polls show Republicans sitting pretty in nearly all the races where Senate seats are being contested.
Persons claiming to speak on behalf of the Pakistani Taliban took responsibility for the failed car bombing in Times Square last night. Pakistani intelligence officials are now knocking down that claim, as you’d expect them to do, frankly, whether it was genuine or not. But CBS has another “Western diplomat” similarly casting doubt on the idea that the Pakistani Taliban has the global reach to mount such an attack. Read More
At least ten other states are in one form or another considering Arizona-style immigration laws. We round them up in this new report.
The highlight of Saturday’s White House Correspondents Association annual dinner was President Obama’s comedy monologue. There was also some comic-wannabe named Leno. You can compare their performances here.
The Obama administration’s focus for this week’s UN conference on nuclear weapons: preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
We’ve obtained some simply stunning shots of the last hours of the Deepwater Horizon before it sank and triggered this epic oil spill:
