AtlanticCity.com: Possible first-time homebuyers have been staying home instead — in their rented apartments — and not buying houses that could be in their price range. And that socio-economic phenomenon has been rippling through the rest of the housing market and holding back its recovery from the 2008 recession, a pair of economists told a […]

NEW YORK TIMES: …The Trans-Pacific Partnership — a cornerstone of Mr. Obama’s remaining economic agenda — would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings […]

SLATE: …Over the weekend, that posture changed. On Monday, in a speech to J Street, a liberal Jewish group, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough explained why the administration didn’t buy Netanyahu’s post-election spin: After the election, the prime minister said that he had not changed his position. But for many in Israel and […]

That’s not a typo: Hillary Clinton is about to kick off her campaign, and the vice president has taken no steps to run, or to figure out a real plan for what happens if he doesn’t. But he’s not out of the race, either.

USA TODAY: President Obama will give a staunch defense of the federal government’s consumer protection watchdog in a speech Thursday, defending it against Republican budget cuts the same day the agency is set to propose tough new payday lending rules. Obama’s speech will come three hours after the bureau convenes a hearing on payday loans […]

WASHINGTON POST: Saudi Arabia heavily bombed neighboring Yemen Thursday, targeting strategic areas of the capital, including the airport, rebel bases, and the presidential palace, as well as military installations held by rebels around the country… [Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir] said the airstrikes began at 7 p.m. Washington time and were conducted by Saudi Arabia along […]

HUFF POST COLUMN: Some Republican governors continue to dodge the federal law that aims to prevent rape in U.S. correctional facilities, despite a looming Justice Department deadline that will hit uncooperative states with financial penalties. The lack of enthusiasm shown by some states to meet basic federal standards may create a setback for groups trying […]

NEW YORK TIMES: …A senior military official involved in the investigation described “very smooth, very cool” conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf. Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter. “The guy outside is knocking lightly on the […]

PITTSBURGH TIMES-HERALD EDITORIAL: …As reported by Public Source, a statewide reporting project that works in concert with newspapers including The Times-Tribune, common offenses do not result in common treatment across all of the state’s 67 counties… The state Supreme Court zealously guards its prerogative to administer the court, as an aspect of the constitutional principle […]

WASHINGTON POST COLUMN: …“The Senate shouldn’t confirm any attorney general nominee, from whatever party, of whatever race, ethnicity or gender identification, who believes the president can rewrite the nation’s laws at will,” [Rich Lowry of National Reviev] wrote in a column for Politico , blithely overstating Lynch’s (and Obama’s) position… What about the principle of […]

USA TODAY: redictions that doctors would be overwhelmed by new patients as a result of the Affordable Care Act have not come true a year after the law’s coverage expansions took effect. That’s according to a study to be released Wednesday from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and health care technology company Athenahealth. By gathering […]

USA TODAY: Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat and longtime mental health advocate, told USA TODAY that he spoke with [former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.) while visiting him on Monday at a minimum security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Ala… He sought treatment for bipolar disorder at the Mayo Clinic in 2012, while […]