Nation: The roadblock is usually in the House, but there’s some doubt this week whether the federal budget compromise will pass the Senate. Some Republican senators are miffed that they were not included in the negotiations between House Republican Paul Ryan and Senate Democrat Patty Murray. Their budget, which passed the House easily, cuts the deficit by $23 billion over 10 years, but a few senate Republicans say it’s not enough. The Democratic majority will need eight Republicans votes to pass the budget and avoid another government shutdown.

Voices: An investigation by The Boston Globe says that Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev “heard voices” and may have been an undiagnosed schizophrenic. A friend said Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout, told his mother he felt like there were two people living inside him. His mother didn’t do anything about it. The Globe reported that the younger brother Dzokhar was a “charmer” flunking out of college who had a busy trade dealing marijuana.

Brain Damage: Ryan Freel, a retired baseball player who committed suicide last year, has become the first professional player diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), brain damage caused by concussions. The condition is usually associated with football players, but Freel had at least 10 major concussions during his baseball career. In a related development, Major League Baseball announced last week that it will eliminate home plate collisions in which runners are allowed to plow into the catcher.

Police Beat: The NY Daily News reports that high profile CBS News correspondent John Miller is negotiating to leave the network to join Bill Bratton at the NY Police Department. Miller has left the news business twice before to work with Bratton, first in New York and then in Los Angeles. His experience has given him great connections covering national security and major crime for CBS.

The Obit Page: Peter O’Toole, who played the British soldier-adventurer T.E. Lawrence in the 1962 epic “Lawrence of Arabia”, has died at age 81. At 6-2, with blonde hair and ice-blue eyes, O’Toole cut a dashing figure as Lawrence. A carousing Irishman who hung out with the likes of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, and Robert Shaw, he played Henry II twice, in “Becket” and “The Lion in Winter”. Nominated for an Oscar eight times, O’Toole never won, and some critics say he never quite achieved the greatness promised by his early work. He once wrote, “I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”

• Actress Joan Fontaine, the sister of Olivia de Havilland, who won an Oscar for playing a terrified newlywed in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion,” died at home in Carmel, Calif., at 96. She worked into her 70s.

The Roundup: Khloe Kardashian, is divorcing basketball husband Lamar Odom; Aron Ralston, the hiker who cut off his right arm to survive, was arrested for domestic violence; Miley Cyrus has joined the “free the nipple” campaign; Gossip columnists report that Olympian Bruce Jenner, who now looks like a female Bruce Jenner, is looking into having his Adam’s apple reduced, feeding rumors that he’s moving toward gender reassignment.  

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