3 people pulled from the water after a bridge on an Interstate collapses in Washington State.

Was the bridge design to blame?

The NY Times on the CIA as it begins evolving from a paramilitary organization back to traditional espionage.

The Boy Scouts of America vote to let openly gay scouts in, but not openly gay scout leaders.

Sen. Tom Harkin: no action on ENDA until July.

IRS official Lois Lerner is placed on administrative leave.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage moves out of his office because of a dispute over a t.v. screen. 

What is that on the bottom of the Sea of Galilee?

Ken Cuccinelli's Twitter avatar

House Ways and Means wants to hear tales of IRS woe from the public.

VA's gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the current governor.

David Koch is hosting a fundraiser for Ken Cuccinelli.

A Senate committee approves the president's nominees for the National Labor Relations Board.

Gun-rights groups sue Connecticut over its new gun laws.

CO Gov. Hickenlooper questions the death penalty.

A ricin scare leads to a Washington state man's arrest.

You know you want to click... President Obama's high school prom pictures.

House lawmakers say they are in the dark about the DOJ-AP investigation.

The House is expected to approve construction of part of the Keystone XL pipeline today.

A fatal shooting in Orlando, Florida may be tied to the Boston Marathon bombing.

The Boy Scouts organization meets today to decide on a policy about gay scouts and scout leaders.

The latest in a string of anti-gay attacks in New York City.

The search for survivors of the Oklahoma tornado winds down.

The Pentagon wants $450 million to maintain and upgrade Guantanamo Bay prison.

The creator of the GIF announces how to pronounce it.

Death toll from the Moore, Oklahoma tornado is still officially 51, but expected to climb by another 40. Update: the official toll may be an overestimate. As of this morning, the Medical Examiner's office has received 24 bodies.

Bad weather is coming again today.

President Obama will deliver a statement later this morning about the tornado.

How to help.

Al Jazeera talks to the military doctor in charge of force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo.

Vermont's Governor signs the "death with dignity" bill into law.

Afghans say a torture victim's body has been found near a U.S. base.

Astronaut Sally Ride will be awarded a posthumous Medal of Freedom.

Navy dolphins find a 130-year-old torpedo.

Report: a White House lawyer was told about the IRS inspector general report in late April.

What was going on in that IRS office in Cincinnati?

Pres. Obama will lay out his administration's justification for use of drone against terrorists this week.

Mitt Romney says the Benghazi talking points did not change the 2012 election outcome.

A union representing immigration enforcement officers will oppose the Senate's version of immigration reform.

Un-bewigged diplomat/accused spy Ryan Fogle reportedly leaves Russia.

Fmr. Sen. John Ensign's family is fined for improper payments to the woman he had an affair with.

Marriage equality is now the law in France.

Who would choose to take a one-way trip to Mars?

The first Congressional hearing on the IRS scandal happens today.

How the IRS' director of implementing the Affordable Care Act may be implicated.

The President will unveil a new policy streamlining permits for infrastructure projects.

The NRA declares victory in a race against a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Russia sends advanced missiles to Syria.

Human Rights Watch reports evidence of torture in Syrian prisons.

The A train is coming back to the Rockaways 6 months after Superstorm Sandy.

The Venezuelan toilet-paper shortage.

Sec. of Energy Ernest Moniz

The Senate today unanimously confirmed a new Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz. Like his predecessor, Steven Chu, he is a physicist. He also edges out HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius for the most awesome hairdo in President Obama's cabinet. Today it struck me that Sec. Moniz reminds me of someone, and after a few minutes of googling the search terms, "woman", "writer", and "dressed like a man" I found it. Who is Sec. Moniz's doppelganger? See for yourself after the jump.

Et voila! Click the picture to see who she is if you don't recognize her.

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6 dead, at least 14 missing after tornadoes rip through Texas.

6 Americans reported killed in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

CBS News: Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev left a note in the boat he hid in.

Read the Acting IRS Commissioner's resignation letter.

Filibuster reform apparently depends on whether Republicans block Richard Cordray next week.

Legal challenges begin against North Dakota abortion laws.

How to smuggle KFC in Gaza.

AG Holder will get a grilling at a House hearing today.

USA Today compares how the IRS treated groups with liberal-sounding and conservative-sounding names.

AP interviews first responders to the fire at the West, TX chemical plant.

The heads of the board that reviewed Benghazi agree to testify before Congress.

How the gun industry markets to kids.

The mayor of Detroit has had enough.

Report: Amb. Chris Stevens turned down offers for more military protection twice.

And look who's back! It's Donald Rumsfeld!

House Ways and Means sets a hearing on the IRS.

Russia claims it has detained a CIA operative.

The suspect being sought in the weekend's mass shooting in New Orleans.

The RNC's director of Hispanic outreach in Florida becomes a Democrat.

Sen. Harry Reid is contemplating filibuster reform again.

Speaker Boehner is battling with his caucus over how to investigate Benghazi.

The Vermont legislature passes doctor-assisted suicide.

The other Sec. Kerry.

Justice Ginsburg makes a controversial comment on Roe v. Wade.

Here we go: what did IRS officials know, and when did they know it?

19 people were injured in a shooting at a Mother's Day second-line parade in New Orleans.

The gun lobby is campaigning against an international arms trade treaty the president supports.

States try to deal with the increasing backlog of gun background-check applications.

Detroit's Emergency Financial Manager releases his first report on the city's woes.

TX paramedic will plead not guilty to explosives charge.

Afghan authorities say an American has tortured civilians there.

The mystery pigs of NYU.

Newt Gingrich needs your help.

Strawberries and milkweed.

It's time to start obsessing about Monarch butterflies again. There were reports over the winter that the Monarch population is way down, so this year I vow to find as many eggs as possible and raise them all to maturity. And of course that means milkweed. The 3 plants I bought last year (one each of common, swamp, and purple) are coming back in my garden (see the picture above--my single specimen of common milkweed is now 5 plants!), and I have decided that this year I will be a crazy butterfly lady and beg property owners in my town not to mow their milkweed plants (see below for my first project!). Wish me luck.

Don't mow me!

I'm also participating in a project called Journey North, which asks volunteers to post reports and pictures of sightings of the first milkweed plant, the first butterfly sighting and the first egg. Here's what the map of first-egg sightings looks like as of today: