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Good morning, folks. Campbell Brown is leaving CNN; could Eliot Spitzer take her spot? Now, your morning constitutional: Results in yesterday’s primaries and the one special election were pretty much as expected: Paul won, Specter lost, Lincoln goes to a run-off. In Thailand, four leaders of the anti-government protesters have surrendered to police after troops surrounded the protesters’ fortified encampment in Bangkok. BBC asks: How did it come to this? The Senate Judiciary Committee has posted Elena Kagan’s entire written record—from her undergraduate thesis to briefs from her Solicitor General office—online. U.S. consumer prices lowered in April...

Good morning, everybody. Charlie Sheen has signed on for two more years of Two and a Half Men, and at a salary of nearly $2M an episode, becomes the highest paid actor on television. Now, your morning constitutional: Democrats and Republicans go to polls today in primaries and special elections in Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. As Congress looks this week at how the government and industry responded to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it is likely that regulations on oil extraction will be tightened. Sausages are worse for you than unprocessed red meat....

Good morning, folks. After 20 years, NBC cancels Law & Order, but orders Law & Order: Los Angeles. Now, your morning constitutional: General Motors on Monday reported it earned $865M in the first quarter of 2010, its first profit since 2007. BP announced that they are successfully capturing around 1,000 barrels a day from a pipe they connected to the leaking oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists have discovered massive oil plumes in the Gulf, further evidence that the oil spill is massively worse than BP predicts. Iran on Monday announced an agreement to ship...

Good morning, everybody. A woman in Miami Beach, Florida, has reported that Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola, from “Jersey Shore” fame, attacked her in a nightclub on Saturday. Now, your morning constitutional: Following Gordon Brown’s resignation yesterday, David Cameron gets to work today as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and has formed a coalition government with Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. Cameron is the 13th Prime Minister since Elizabeth II took the throne in 1952 and the youngest (43) to take the job in over two centuries. The BBC has a run-down of his cabinet...

Good morning, folks. Bristol celebrated National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy by going to a hot New York club. Here’s your morning constitutional: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai arrives in D.C. today for a visit hoped to warm the cold relationship between Afghanistan and the U.S. Yesterday, RNC Chair Michael Steele slamed Solicitor General Elena Kagan for “her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution “as originally drafted and conceived, was ‘defective.’” Except the statement Kagan supported was from Justice Thurgood Marshall, and he was talking about slavery. In the U.K., the Liberal Democrats and the Tories have...

Good morning, folks. Betty White smashed it on Saturday Night, didn’t she? Now, here’s your morning constitutional: Probably the worst-kept secret ever: President Obama is expected to announce that he will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Stevens. The Washington Post has a timeline of Kagan’s career, and SCOTUSBlog has a primer on Kagan. German Chancellor Angela Merckel suffered a major blow Sunday as her coalition lost a key local election in North Rhine-Westphalia, one of Germany’s most populous regions and often thought to be a bellwether of German politics. The loss,...

Good morning, folks. If you’re in Pennsylvania, make sure you booze it up with moms on Sunday. Now, your morning constitutional: Tories made large gains in the U.K. election yesterday, ending over a decade of Labour majority, although not gaining enough seats to form a majority themselves. BP began the process Friday morning of lowering the containment dome over the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The work is expected to continue over the weekend. U.S. stocks dropped nearly a thousand points yesterday before leveling off at a 346-point drop yesterday, but stocks are expected to...

Good morning, everybody. Bret Michaels is out of the hospital. Now, your morning constitutional: Yesterday’s primary results: Neither Secretary of State Elaine Marshall nor former state Senator Cal Cunningham won the North Carolina Democratic nomination for Senate outright, forcing a run-off. Former Senator Dan Coats won the Republican nomination for Senate easily in Indiana. Lt. Governor Lee Fisher won the Democratic primary for Senate in Ohio. Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American man arrested for the attempted Times Square bombing, admits role in bombing plot. BP announced Wednesday morning that they have managed to shut off one of the...

Good morning, everybody. Will there be a sequel to the hit comedy Anchorman? Now, your morning constitutional: Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan, was arrested last night in connection to this weekend’s Time Square bombing attempt. He was on board a plane to Pakistan at the time of his arrest. Statement from Attorney General Eric Holder. How the attempting bombing will bring terrorism politics back to the forefront. Three lessons from the Times Square bomb. Talks over renewing the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, an exercise that takes place every five years, pits Iran against the West....

Good morning, everybody. Was Obama funnier than Leno at this weekend’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner? Here’s your morning constitutional: Sidewalk vendors were hailed as heroes yesterday for their roles in identifying an SUV in Times Square containing an explosive device. Police now seek the man responsible for the device, who appears to have been caught on tape. With the oil patch in the Gulf of Mexico expanding, and with the robotic submarines so far unable to plug the leak, officials are grim in their forecast, suggesting it may take weeks or months to contain the leak....