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Good morning, everybody. With little fanfare, Will Forte\’s leaving SNL. Now, your morning constitutional:
Former President Jimmy Carter has left North Korea with Aijalon Mahli Gomes, whose release he had successfully gone to North Korea to secure.
An increasing number of congressional Democrats are backing an extension of the Bush tax cuts, even those just for the wealthy, while some former Republican lawmakers are backing new taxes to reduce the budget deficit.
Military trainers shocked how bad Afghans are at driving.
Katrina recovery efforts seem to have unevenly favored the rich and affluent in Louisiana and Mississippi.
U.S. economic growth slowed to 1.6% in the second quarter, way down from an expected 2-4%. A rapid rise in the trade deficit is slowing economic growth, raising concerns that some of the same things that led to the recession are beginning to reemerge.
A leaked U.N. report says that in the mid-1990s, the Rwandan army and its Congolese rebel allies attacked ethnic Hutus in Zaire and DR Congo, an act that might be classified as genocide.
Kenya adopts a new constitution today as President Mwai Kibaki signs it into law, hoping to end decades of political and ethnic violence.
The Department of Defense is opposing wind turbine programs, as turbine blades can often be mistaken for airplanes on radar systems and can even cause zones where airplanes disappear from radar entirely, and turbine farms can look like storms on weather radar.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shot darts from a crossbow at a gray whale on Wednesday off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
James Fallows: The Glory of American Politics Goes Worldwide.
Strippers versus Church: An evangelical congregation battles a strip club; dancers fight back.
A classically trained voice teacher analyzes five classic male heavy metal vocalists.
Pittsburgh: The economic rationale for maintaining a losing baseball team.
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