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Osama bin Laden was found living in a middle class city in Pakistan, not far from the capital. Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn of The Weekly Standard think that Pakistani officials might have known where bin Laden was hiding.

The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, but officials were confident the levees would protect the city's world-famous musical landmarks, including Graceland and Beale Street, and that no new areas would have any serious flooding.

This Twin Cities group took its name from a song with the intent of forming a Neutral Milk Hotel tribute band. Thankfully, they decided to write their own material. Watch them perform "Not the Kid."

The death of Osama bin Laden made a splash in the United States, but another country took notice as well. John Lee of Foreign Policy says that China fears that once the U.S.'s war on terror is over, the attention of the U.S. will turn to an economic competition with the Asian country.

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This week: Ice-T, Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, the multi-ethnic world of the Fast And The Furious franchise, and what happened when they took Everybody Loves Raymond to Russian television, on this week's podcast of NPR's arts and culture stories.

"Yes there was an intelligence failure," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said. [But] it is not only ours but of all the intelligence agencies of the world." Gilani also said bin Laden's killing was justified.

The conventional wisdom on Jon Huntsman, former U.S. ambassador to China and ex-Utah governor, is that if he should announce a run for the Republican presidential nomination, his candidacy would readily be sunk by the WOE (Was Obama's Emissary) factor. That could be too simplistic.

Paula Abdul has officially joined Simon Cowell for his new show, The X Factor. Whether the new show is a threat to their old show, American Idol, remains to be seen, but Idol has some big weaknesses that might be ripe for exploiting.

William Dodd served for four years as the ambassador to Germany before resigning — after repeated clashes with both Nazi Party officials and the State Department. Erik Larson chronicles Dodd's time in Berlin in his new book, In the Garden of Beasts.