An overhead view of the Three Gorges Dam that spans China’s Yangtze River, part of our inspiring and sobering Slideshow of the greatest engineering feats of modern China.
Ben Bernanke tells Congress deep spending cuts could derail an already fragile recovery.
The AP is reporting that the Justice Department is looking into the allegations that News Corp. hacked into the cellphones of 9/11 victims. We’re told to expect a statement from DOJ shortly. More when we have it.
Tunisia, Egypt, Libya … News Corp?
Rupert Murdoch, with son Lachlan, in London.
Republicans demanding Obama protect seniors from consequences of default.
I’m getting the sense that Republicans have only just now realized that the debt default they’ve been jonesing for for six weeks amounts to a thermonuclear government shutdown. Not just national parks and monuments. Social Security checks, Medicare reimbursements, payments to defense contractors who make the bullets. The whole deal.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), presumably an Orioles fan, is the man who saved Roger Clemens from possible jail time. Sort of.
President Obama says Eric Cantor’s story about him storming out of last night’s meeting never happened. Watch the video.