- A new book on President Obama's 2012 campaign charges that advisers were considering replacing Vice-President Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton.
- A three-judge panel of 5th Circuit judges has overturned the injuction on Texas's HB2 anti-abortion laws, meaning that as many as a dozen clinics in the state could be shut down as early as today.
- Republicans have successfully filibustered the nomination of Democratic Rep. Mel Watt as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, setting up another possible battle over use of the filibuster.
- Watt's filibuster may have to do with Fannie Mae's new $800 million lawsuit against major US banks over rigging the Libor inter-bank lending rate last year.
- Researchers now say invasive Asian carp have now made it into Lake Erie, as evidence of fish caught near the lake show signs of having been hatched there.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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