* Lawmakers head home feeling confident nothing will get done when Boehner visits Obama in the White House. * Tank brokers estimate there are several hundred to 1,000 private tank owners in the U.S. * North Korea uses its own method of scoring basketball—e.g., eight points for a basket
* Beppe Grillo, whose movement now holds the balance of power in Italy's parliament, rules out a coalition with the center-left. * Only half of Americans believe the U.S. is the no. 1 military power in the world. * South African paper The Daily Sun publishes amateur footage of
* Dozens of U.S. companies, including Apple, Facebook, eBay, and Intel back same-sex marriage. * In addition to a photograph and fingerprinting, [should arrestees] be required to open up for an oral swab? * A beer monopoly may be imminent, and it's perfectly legal. * "Harlem Shake" reaches
It was revealed this week that Suri Cruise—daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, dictator of our hearts, and heir to at least one remote island nation—has been using a body double to fool paparazzi. A tiny little body double leading photographers away from wherever Suri wanted to
* Coastal Carolina University is on lockdown after a student was shot and killed this morning. * A harrowing, interactive chart of the more than 2,300 people who have been killed by guns in America since Newtown. * Kerry defends free speech to German press: "In America, you have a right
Friends, the Rooster is right around the corner. This Monday, March 4, 2013, the Morning News Tournament of Books, presented by NOOK® by Barnes & Noble, officially begins. (If you missed the official announcement, it’s over here.) To whet your appetite, we’re releasing the brackets today in a
* For more than a year, [Democrats] subjected Koop to the kind of horrific nomination battle we have practically come to consider normal. * U.S. Dept. of Transportation orders shutdown of the East Coast Chinatown bus system. * An in-depth profile of Fauja Singh, the world's oldest marathoner. * From
In 1974, a car hits a seven-year-old boy in central New Jersey. The boy dies. From 2013, a former friend starts to probe the causes, effects, statistics, and consequences.
* Dozens of prominent Republicans...have signed a legal brief arguing that gay people have a constitutional right to marry. * What really happened to William Sparkman Jr., the census worker whose body was found hanged in a Kentucky cemetery in 2009. * With a local economy that continues to spiral downward, a
* In talking to Seth about his sense of humor, I asked him about his penchant for making fun of those not like him. * Iran slams Argo Oscar win, calling it an "advertisement for the CIA." * Nine years after a group of Brits tried to swing Ohio in his
