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Good morning, everyone. Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker are going to bring you the news on CNN this fall. Now, your morning constitutional: Kevin Rudd has stepped down as Prime Minister of Australia after his deputy Julia Gillard secured enough votes to overthrow him. FiveThirtyEight looks into the downfall of Rudd, who was very recently Australia’s most popular PM. Gillard becomes Australia’s first female prime minister. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is in Washington today to discuss the global economy with President Obama. Russia plans to resume supplying Belarus with natural gas after Belarus paid its debt to...

Good morning, everybody. Jerry Seinfeld thinks Lady Gaga is a jerk. Now, your morning constitutional: Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s fate, now unknown, will likely be determined today in his meeting with President Obama today. Some inside the White House may be suggesting he might be on his way out, which would not make Afghan leaders particularly happy. And how the debacle highlights, yet again, the split over Afghanistan between Gen. McChrystal and Vice President Biden. Regardless of what happens, the president is still stuck with the same counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan McChrystal put into place. Shady: U.S. District...

Good morning, folks. Did Toy Story 3 make you cry? Well, there’s always your morning constitutional: Gen. Stanley McCrystal, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, was called back to Washington after making critical remarks in an interview about administration officials including the president and vice president. Former federal prosecutor Michael Bromwich on Monday took over as director the agency that oversees offshore drilling. The agency was formerly known as the Minerals Management Service, but was renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement in a shakeup by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Peter Orszag,...

Good morning, everybody. As I write this, Portugal just creamed PRK by a whopping 7-0. Sweet Jesus. Anyways, here’s your morning constitutional: A worker on the Deepwater Horizon rig claims to have told BP that he found a leak on the rig just weeks before the explosion. Russia has begun to cut off natural gas to its neighbor Belarus, saying Belarus owes it over $200m. Poland’s presidential election is heading into a runoff, after no candidate was able to win enough votes to win outright. In Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos easily won the presidency yesterday with 69...

Good morning, everybody. The NBA has a new champion. Now, your morning constitutional: The interim leader of Kyrgyzstan says that the toll of the recent ethnic violence could be as much as ten times worst than previously believed. Democrats, while trying to restrict special interests, make loopholes for special interests. Liberal Senators threaten to abandon energy legislation if it does not include a price on carbon. Slate: Pick up just about any novel and you’ll find a throwaway reference to a dog, barking in the distance. North Korea fans actually Chinese actors. A Republican-led filibuster was successful...

Good morning, everyone. Charlie Sheen’s car has been driven off a cliff — again. Now, your morning constitutional: In a speech from the Oval Office, President Obama last night urged action on new energy legislation and promised to make BP pay for damages related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Judge Vaughn R. Walker will hear closing arguments today in a long-running trial on a lawsuit hoping to overturn California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages in the state. A series of six earthquakes, ranging from 4.8-7.0 magnitude, hit Indonesia Wednesday, killing at least...

Good morning, folks. Ubisoft is making a Michael Jackson video game. Now, your morning constitutional: Ethnic violence in Kyrgystan is beginning to wane as aide arrives in the southern city of Osh. Britian prepares Tuesday to release a report of the government investigation into the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings of demonstrators in Londonderry, which lead to three decades of violence in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. President Obama tries to lift the mood is in the Gulf region today, ahead of his televised speech tonight, in which he will attempt to reassert the image of control...

Good morning, everybody. The U.S. and England tied 1-1, and Germany man-handled Australia. Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama will visit the Gulf region on Tuesday and address the nation on television about the Gulf oil spill  on Tuesday night. In his address, the president will outline a plan to force BP to create an escrow account to compensate businesses and individuals affected by the oil spill. Over 200 have been killed in southern Kyrgystan in three days of  violent clashing between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups. The U.S. has discovered possibly $1 trillion in mineral deposits...

Good morning, everybody. The Donald wants Lindsay? Now, your morning constitutional: Psst. In case you haven’t been paying attention: World Cup starts today in South Africa. With at least 17 languages being spoken by the teams, the challenge of enforcing rules against swearing in the World Cup. An effort by Sen. Lisa Murkowski yesterday to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon levels failed in the Senate yesterday, further making energy/climate legislation look harder to pass. Researchers double their estimate of how much oil has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, now believing that over 40,000...

Good morning, everybody. Katy Perry apparently doesn’t care much for Lady Gaga’s new video. Now, your morning constitutional: Women swept all the high-profile primaries yesterday, with Blanche Lincoln winning in Arkansas, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiona winning in California, Sharron Angle winning in Nevada, and Nikki Haley heading to a run-off in South Carolina. An actual shocker in results yesterday, however: The Democratic nominee for Senate from South Carolina will be unemployed military veteran Alvin Greene, who beat the presumed winner despite spending nothing on his campaign except for the filing fee and doesn’t even have a...