Morning Constitutional – Monday, 24 May 2010

Good morning, everybody. Lost is over. Now, your morning constitutional:

Frustrated after several attempts have failed, the Obama administration is losing faith that BP is actually capable of fixing the leaking oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

American delegation comes to China with long list of issues to work out on the economy and security, but China just wants to be left alone to pursue its own development.

President Obama seeks novel new way of trimming costs from spending bills.

State cuts to child care programs are forcing poor parents out of working, undoing many of the changes of the welfare reform from 1996.

South Korea will tighten trade with North Korea in response to the North sinking one of the South\’s navy ships.

Slate plays an experiment with readers\’ memories.

Is Dora the Explorer an illegal immigrant?

FiveThirtyEight: Excluding cell phones introduces significant bias in polling.

Jordan Romeo, an American 13-year-old boy, becomes the youngest person ever to have climbed Mt. Everest.

The net worth of U.S. presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama.

While Republicans see a chance for big gains in the upcoming midterm elections, some hesitation and concerns are growing as well.

Israel reportedly tried to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa\’s apartheid regime in 1975, according to secret South African documents.

Finally, a hipster-friendly subway map of New York. Finally.