The Number That Will Matter In Wisconsin  —  In the epic showdown between Big Blue and Big Red, Walker's margin may be the number being watched from Chicago and Boston.  A Walker blowout means trouble for the president.  —  Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (L) and Republican Wisconsin Governor …

Judge revokes George Zimmerman bond in Trayvon Martin killing  —  April 20, 2012: In this file photo, George Zimmerman, left, answers a question from attorney Mark O'Mara during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla.AP/ORLANDO SENTINEL  —  SANFORD, FLA - URGENT: A judge on Friday revoked the bond …

Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran  —  WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's …

Warren: 'I won't deny who I am'  —  Elizabeth Warren, outside her childhood home in Norman, Okla., last year.  She said her parents had to elope because her father's family disapproved of her mother's Native American ancestry.  —  She has given clumsy answers, evaded questions …

Jeb Bush Proves He Won't be VP  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush emphatically told reporters today he is not going to be a candidate for vice president.  —  “It's not in the cards for me,” Bush said.  “I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.  I have been repeating it for the last two years.

Miserable May jobs report suggests U.S. in recession red zone  —  [THIS POST WILL UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF PAGE AS EVENTS UNFOLD ...]  —  The May jobs report was a complete and utter disaster for the economy and, perhaps, President Obama's chances for reelection.

Risk of non-citizen voters at center of election year struggle in Fla. and Colo.  —  Risk of non-citizen voters at center of election year struggle in Florida and Colorado  —  The Justice Department entered the long-running struggle over voter eligibility Thursday, warning Florida …

The Employment Situation in May  —  Problems in the job market were long in the making and will not be solved overnight.  The economy lost jobs for 25 straight months beginning in February 2008, and over 8 million jobs were lost as a result of the Great Recession.

The Charts That Should Accompany All Discussions of Media Bias  —  They are the ones presented this morning by John Sides, drawing on Pew analyses of positive, negative, and neutral press coverage of all Republican candidates and of President Obama through this past year.  —  Here's the trend in coverage of Mitt Romney.

DC Comics Green Lantern relaunched as gay superhero  —  One of DC Comics oldest heroes is super-coming out.  —  The original Green Lantern - a DC Comics mainstay for the past 70 years - will be revealed to be a gay man in next week's issue of “Earth 2.”  —  Alan Scott - formerly …

President Obama Shuns Lech Walesa  —  Lech Walesa was once a trade-union activist.  He was often arrested for speaking his mind against Communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain in Poland and for defying the Soviet Union.  He was an electrician who, with no higher education …

Rielle Hunter's Tell-All Memoir Coming Out this Month  —  Rielle Hunter, the former mistress of John Edwards and the mother of their 4-year-old daughter, has written what the publisher promise to be a revealing memoir hitting the shelves later this month.  —  What Really Happened: John Edwards …

In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins  —  Highly religious Americans most likely to believe in creationism  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.

Mitt Romney Wins Over The Right By Confronting Obama  —  Behind his confrontational strategy: A bet that the base cares more about grit than policy, and doesn't want him to apologize for Donald Trump.  “This is right out of Breitbart's playbook,” says Thor.  —  Romey, in front of Solyndra Thursday.

Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are  —  Surveys show a shockingly high fraction think a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when the reality is that it's probably less than 2 percent.  —  One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay …

Obama on nudity, drag-racing and how to write: 20 details from Maraniss' ‘Barack Obama: The Story’  —  In the forthcoming biography “Barack Obama: The Story,” due in bookstores June 19, David Maraniss tells the largely untold story of Obama's family, his life growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia …

The Breakeven Point (Wonkish But Terrifying)  —  A number of us have been saying for some time that the euro crisis is, at its root, a balance of payments problem.  During the careless years, capital flooded from the core to the periphery, leading to big trade deficits and overvalued real exchange rates …

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Obama: We'll Get Things Done When The Republican “Fever” Breaks  —  President Barack Obama says he'll fulfill his campaign promises once he wins, because Republicans won't be obsessed with beating him.  —  (Reuters / JASON REED)  —  President Barack Obama cited a Republican “fever” …