Breaking: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died suddenly of a stroke today. She was 87. Sometimes known as the Iron Lady, she was a staunch conservative who led Britain for 11 years beginning in 1979. She’s credited with breaking …

National: Three US soldiers, two American civilians, and an Afghan doctor died in an IED attack on a convoy in Afghanistan. One of the dead was 25-year-old Anne Smedinghoff, a foreign-service officer. Four other State Department people were wounded, one …

National: A Federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that the Plan B “morning after” pill must be available over the counter to women 16 and under. This overturns a rule set in 2011 by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen …

 National: The stock market is down this morning on news that the US added only 88,000 jobs in March, compared to 268,000 in February. Even so, the unemployment rate ticked down from 7.7% to 7.6%. President Obama will offer a …

 Korean Heat: South Korea says the North has moved a mid-range missile to the east coast in the direction of Japan and the US. Meanwhile the Pentagon is moving a portable missile defense system to Guam as a precautionary response …

 World: North Korea closed South Korean access to a joint industrial zone, further ratcheting tensions between the two countries and the US. The park just North of the demilitarized zone employs 50,000 North Koreans and hundreds of South Korean business …

World: North Korea is now threatening to re-start its mothballed nuclear reactor. In a continuing escalation of rhetoric, South Korea’s first woman president Park Geun-hye said her country would strike back quickly against any attack by North Korea. The South …

National: The diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has increased more than 50% among American children in the last ten years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Nearly one in five high school boys have been diagnosed with …

 National: Exxon Mobil is already working to clean up thousands of gallons of oil that leaked from the Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Ark. The line carries heavy Canadian crude to a refinery in Texas. This spill feeds the debate over …

National: The Obama administration proposed reducing the amount of sulfur in gasoline by two-thirds to reduce pollution and health costs. The administration claims it would have the benefit of taking 33 million cars off the road. Environmentalists and car companies …