Mark Memmott

"Assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian was readmitted to the hospital last night because of a recurring kidney condition and pneumonia," his lawyer tells the Detroit Free Press.

President Obama is today giving his first major address aimed at the Muslim world and the Middle East since the Arab Spring movement swept aside regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and rocked governments in Libya, Yemen and elsewhere in the region.

We're live-blogging in this post before, during and immediately after the address (which is scheduled to begin at 11:40 a.m. ET.). There's no need for you to refresh; this page will do that for you every two minutes.

If you haven't heard by now, there's still time to do whatever you think you need to do to get ready.

For Judgment Day on Saturday, that is.

"Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can't. Deal. With. The. Blathering."

When that appeared on the U.S. Secret Service's official Twitter account on Wednesday it was immediately retweeted by many of the agency's 20,000+ Twitter followers and screengrabs were quickly captured before — as you might expect — it was quickly deleted.

The surgery Wednesday to put a patch on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' skull went as planned and the Arizona Democrat is "recovering well," according to officials at the Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. That's the Houston hospital where she is getting rehabilitation treatment for the gunshot wound she suffered during a Jan.