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  • President Bush sends Congress his final budget — a $3.1 trillion proposal for fiscal 2009. The plan purports to balance the budget by 2012, while not counting war costs or another inevitable fix to the alternative minimum tax. Congress is expected to put up a fight — or just wait for the next president.
  • The prize in physics is being split between three physicists who are part of the LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration that detected gravitational waves for the first time.
  • With the NBA playoffs about to begin, the Golden State Warriors have the best record in the league and the most exciting playing style — highlighted by Stephen Curry's long-range shooting.
  • Bruce Lorenz was re-elected as mayor of Ruso, N.D. He got the backing of all three votes cast.
  • Barbara and Douglas Fink of Edmonton, Alberta won the lottery in 1989, 2010 and now in 2017. They say they'll use the money to help their children and grandchildren.
  • Officials say the suspect, Kori Ali Muhammad, might have been racially motivated. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson gets the latest from reporter Jeffrey Hess.
  • After months in plateau, the Florida unemployment rate is sliding downward.
  • More than 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate and hundreds of structures have been destroyed.
  • The Philadelphia Eagles routed the Dallas Cowboys 33-10, the Seattle Seahawks beat the San Francisco 49ers 19-3 and the Detroit Lions won handily over the Chicago Bears 34-17.
  • When Sequoia, a bald eagle at the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, got caught in a strong wind while spreading her wings at a local park, she took off. The San Jose Mercury News reports it took three days for the bald eagle's handlers to track her down.
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