Deadline: Today is tax day. Returns must be postmarked by midnight. National: The Supreme Court this morning chose not to hear a case about whether there is a Constitutional right to carry a handgun. The case stems from a New …

World: Secretary of State John Kerry is in China urging leaders to put a lid on the bellicose rhetoric coming from their neighbor Kim Jong-un in North Korea. They also agreed to work toward eliminating nuclear weapons from the Korean …

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: President Obama yesterday signed an order to begin the $85 billion in budget cuts known as the sequester. He spoke to the press yesterday shortly after the failure of a last-minute meeting with Republicans to avoid drastic across the …

National: The Bank of America has agreed to pay $10 billion to Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Assoc.) to settle claims over sour mortgages. Fannie Mae, which was established during The Great Depression to help Americans buy homes, had claimed …