Mark Memmott

"Richard 'Ricky' Gilleland III — 11th-grader and Junior Future Business Leaders of America computer ace — has succeeded where the Army failed," the Los Angeles Times writes this morning. "He has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington [National Cemetery].

The Associated Press, Washington Post and a few other news outlets are following up this morning on reporting done earlier this month by NPR's Tom Bowman about a shake-up in the Obama administration's national security team.

The new voice of the Aflac duck will be courtesy of a radio station sales manager from Minnesota.

Daniel McKeague, 36, has been chosen by the insurance giant as the replacement for comedian Gilbert Gottfried — who, you may recall, lost the job after making some offensive jokes related to the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan.

The previously secret documents released this week about the suspected terrorists that the U.S. has held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reveal a lot about how that detention center works, says one of the journalists who has done some of the most extensive reporting about that facility since it began receiving prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

We've known she was going to go for several weeks.

Now, Katie Couric has confirmed — to People magazine — that "I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News."

"What's next for the 32-year broadcast veteran?" People asks"