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President Obama is still riding high after last week's military operation that killed Osama bin Laden. The question now: Can the president convert that success into increased clout as he addresses the economy and immigration — while his team works with Congress on the budget?

Olive Stephens was elected mayor of Shady Shores, Texas, in 1972. Richard Nixon was president, and the TV show Dallas had yet to premiere. Thirty-nine years later, Mayor Stephens is preparing to retire this month. She is leaving office at age 94.

The Mississippi river is expected to crest in Memphis Tuesday near record levels; the average price for regular gas reaches $4 a gallon; 12 people died in religious fighting in Cairo this weekend; tens of thousands of people turned out in Mexico City Sunday to protest drug violence

Soon after Hitler's rise in 1933, writer Heinrich Mann and his wife fled Germany for fear of persecution, joining other intellectuals in exile. Evelyn Juers' House of Exile chronicles the experience of watching a war develop from afar.

ABC News reports that a senior official in Pakistan's government blames "rogue or retired" Pakistani intelligence agents for helping bin Laden hide in that country.

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.