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:

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.

Joe Ricketts Rejects Plan to Finance Anti-Obama Ads  —  Joe Ricketts, an up-by-the-bootstraps billionaire whose varied holdings include a name-brand brokerage firm in Omaha, a baseball team in Chicago, herds of bison in Wyoming and a start-up news Web site in New York, wanted to be a player in the 2012 election.

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?”

TPMMuckraker  —  Arizona Goes Birther: Secretary Of State Says It's ‘Possible’ Obama Won't Be On Ballot  —  The man in charge of running Arizona's elections has gone to the birthers.  Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he's not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States …

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 …

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 …

U2's Bono to become the world's richest musician tomorrow (May 18)  —  Singer will leapfrog Paul McCartney when Facebook hits the stock exchange  —  U2 frontman Bono will become the richest musician in the world tomorrow (May 18), overtaking Paul McCartney.

Romney begins vetting veep picks  —  Mitt Romney's campaign has begun vetting running mates, a process that will narrow his list of possible veep picks.  —  The team for Beth Myers, the Romney adviser leading the search for the GOP's vice presidential nominee, has already contacted potential running mates …

OBAMA'S LIT AGENCY USED ‘BORN IN KENYA’ BIO UNTIL 2007  —  According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website - the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama's literary agents - was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007 …

Lawmakers back indefinite detention for terror suspects in US  —  In two votes Friday morning, the House backed the president's powers to indefinitely detain terror suspects captured on U.S. soil.  —  Lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have barred military detention for terror suspects captured …

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.

Conservative Hashtag Games Are Ruining Twitter  —  Today Former White House Press Secretary Bill Burton attempted to start a hashtag game called #RomneyYachtNames.  It's so unfunny and forced, it's exactly the kind of thing that would trend on Twitter.  And it did, but not the way Bill Burton intended.

Wong's affirmation of gay families ‘a watershed’  —  The exchange between Penny Wong and Joe Hockey on Q&A this week about gay parents is only about two and half minutes long.  —  Prompted by an audience question about why the shadow treasurer thinks he and his wife make better parents …

At Facebook, Peer Pressure to Spend Those Millions Quietly  —  MENLO PARK, Calif. — Wealth is here if you know where to find it.  —  Fabulous home theaters are tucked into the basements of plain suburban houses.  Bespoke jeans that start at $1,200 can be detected only by a tiny red logo on the button.

‘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 …

TPM2012  —  Romney's Past Opponents Warn Democrats: He Could Win  —  After an often embarrassing yearlong struggle to overcome a weak field in the GOP primary, Mitt Romney is surging in the polls and raising money at a healthy clip.  This comes as no surprise to the Democrats who've gone up against him in Massachusetts.

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 …

Midtown Penthouse Is Sold for Most Ever in New York  —  A mystery buyer has agreed to pay a record price in New York of more than $90 million for the duplex penthouse at a Midtown tower, the building's developer said Thursday.  —  Gary Barnett, president of Extell Development Company …