An Earth-sized blot: Discovered on Jupiter by an amateur astronomer, currently believed to be an impact mark.

Taxing the rich: Maybe not the way to pay for health care reform.

Calling all blogs: Obama enlists online writers to help push members of Congress on the health bill.

Protect me! Dick Cheney asks for, and gets, another six months of Secret Service protection.

Mixed bag: Bernanke on the state of the economy.

Too overweight to be Surgeon General? Bloggers attack Obama's nominee.

Leaderless army: Washington State's religious right.

Coming home while black: Henry Louis Gates arrested in Cambridge while trying to enter his own house.

Baiting Beckham: A 28-year-old video game technician succeeds, then jumps down onto the field to take him on.

And Republican Mike Castle of Delaware tries, unsuccessfully, to convince angry constituents that President Obama is an American: