Econ 101: The US economy grew by 165,000 jobs in April, trimming the unemployment rate from 7.6% to 7.5%. The Dow Jones average this morning moved into record territory over 15,000.

Bombers: The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been released to a funeral home. The exact cause of his death may be released later today. Also, the NY Times reports that surviving brother Dzhokhar  told investigators that he and his brother had originally considered a 4^th of July suicide bombing, but decided on hitting the Boston Marathon after building their bombs faster than they expected.

World: The Pakistani prosecutor who had been investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was shot dead this morning on his way to court. Gunmen opened fire on Chaudhry Zulfikar Ali  from a motorbike and a taxi. He was on his way to a hearing in which former military leader Pervez Musharraf faces charges in connection with the death of Bhutto in 2007.

> Opposition forces claim that government troops executed forty people in a village in northwest Syria this week.

> Investigators in Bangladesh say that generators on the roof of the  sewing factory that collapsed may have contributed to the disaster. The generators kicked in during a power outage and the vibrations, combined with the vibration of thousands of sewing machines, was too much for the structurally weak building. 

The Big Burn: Wildfire season is off and running in Southern California. A 10,000 acre fire is burning all the way to the coast near Ventura, threatening about 3,000 homes.

Written Off: Media critic Howard Kurtz, who writes about journalistic ethics and conflicts of interest, was fired yesterday by The Daily Beast for apparent conflict of interest. Kurtz was also the Washington bureau chief for the Beast and Newsweek, which are jointly owned, but he was writing for an unrelated website called the Daily Download. He’s now free to spend more time with it.

Wings: The sun-powered airplane Solar Impulse took off this morning from San Francisco to attempt to fly across the US without fuel. The plane will make pit stops for weather and to switch pilots in the single seater. It’s expected to take two months before landing at JFK in New York.

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