The WaPo On The Zimmerman Evidence - Are They Kidding?  —  The WaPo pretends to examine the newly released Zimmerman evidence.  They get off to a promising start on the gunshot wound but deliver some dreadfullly incomplete information on other topics.  —  They lead well with the wound:

Rahm Emanuel ‘livid,’ not returning calls from Ricketts family  —  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking President Obama …

Apocalypse Fairly Soon  —  Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro — that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union — could come apart at the seams.  We're not talking about a distant prospect, either.  Things could fall apart with stunning speed, in a matter of months, not years.

Literary Agent Says 1991 Booklet was a Mistake  —  Breitbart News reports on a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency which describes the author as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”  —  Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:

Gingrich returns to the trail — backing Romney  —  WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich makes his first major appearance since leaving the presidential race this weekend and will try to boost Mitt Romney to a group that preferred Gingrich as the party's nominee: Georgia Republicans.

Inside J.P. Morgan's Blunder  —  CEO Dimon Blessed the Concept Behind Disastrous Trades; ‘Blood in the Water’  —  J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James Dimon had just committed the most expensive blunder of his 30-year career, failing to detect the risk of trades …

Condi Puts Romney Veep Rumors to Rest  —  “Not going to happen,” she told the audience.  “I love policy, I don't really love politics  —  Rice told a group of business leaders that she would not accept a VP role.  —  Condoleezza Rice won't be Mitt Romney's running mate, she said Thursday in Chicago.

Meet the Rubios  —  WEST MIAMI, Fla. — Marco and Jeanette Rubio, sitting side by side on their brown sofa in their sunny house, could be any young couple musing about life: juggling four kids, a job that separates them, aging parents, their faith and whether or not to move.  —  Only they're not just any couple.

Florida Tries to Clear Illegal Voters From Rolls  —  MIAMI — In an attempt to clear the voter rolls of noncitizens, a move that had set off criticism and a threatened lawsuit, Florida election officials decided on Thursday to use information from a federal database to check a list of 182,000 voters …

Al Gore has a girlfriend: California donor and activist Elizabeth Keadle  —  Al Gore has been seriously dating Elizabeth Keadle, right, of California.  (Joe Kohen/Getty; Jon Clark/Rancho Santa Fe Review)  —  It's never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away …

New Sachs/Mason-Dixon Poll: Social Media Could Pave Path to Victory in 2012 Presidential Race  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -The most significant poll to date on the impact of social media in the 2012 presidential race reveals that almost 70 percent of likely voters believe the race will be heavily shaped by social media platforms.

‘Princelings’ in China Use Family Ties to Gain Riches  —  SHANGHAI — The Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation recently announced a bold move to crack China's tightly protected film industry: a $330 million deal to create a Shanghai animation studio that might one day rival the California shops …

TRENDING: Romney campaign touts day one initiatives in first general election ad  —  Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney, the likely GOP presidential nominee, is using his first general election ad to highlight the policy priorities he would enact on his first day in office, asking voters, “What would a Romney Presidency be like?”

House panel approves State funding bill with anti-abortion language  —  The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a 2013 State Department funding bill that includes controversial anti-abortion language.  —  The markup featured heated rhetoric between Democrats and Republicans …

GOP struggles to banish ghost of Jeremiah Wright  —  In a statement, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades repudiates the plan being hatched by GOP operatives for an ad campaign tying Obama to Reverend Wright: … And that's good.  The problem, though, is that it turns out that Romney himself attacked Obama …

The Arab Spring and American Ideals  —  We do not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the Middle East or elsewhere.  We only get to choose what side we are on.  —  These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom.  In the Arab Spring, we have seen …

Is Obama going to lose the Arkansas Democratic primary?  —  Via Jorge Bonilla in the Greenroom, who sounds the call for “Operation Razorback Chaos.”  Two words, my friends: Open primary.  —  It's magic time. … Wolfe opposes gay marriage so he's primed to benefit by drawing a contrast with O's recent “evolution.”