What We’re Reading Now
Aug 01, 2011

PAKISTAN
Getting Bin Laden
Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker- August 1, 2011
What happened that night in Abbottabad.

Pakistan says U.S. missiles kill 3 near border
Associated Press- August 1, 2011
American drone-fired missiles slammed into a car near the Afghan border on Monday, killing four suspected Islamist militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

UNITED STATES
Obama and leaders reach debt deal
Carl Hulse and Helene Cooper, New York Times - July 31, 2011
President Obama and Congressional leaders of both parties said late Sunday that they had agreed to a framework for a budget deal that would cut trillions of dollars in federal spending over the next decade and clear the way for an increase in the government’s borrowing limit.