• Sexy Liberal Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for Humpdays With Hal

• With his wife Huma Abedin by his side, NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner acknowledged that he sent previously undisclosed inappropriate photos to a woman during summer of 2012, a year after he publicly resigned from Congress amid a scandal for similar behavior.

• The Obama administration squared off with skeptical lawmakers Tuesday over efforts to terminate the government’s authority to collect phone records of millions of Americans, a proposition that exposed sharp divisions among members of Congress.

• Seeking to focus public attention on the problem he was sent to the White House to solve, President Obama is making a renewed push for policies to expand the middle class, helping people he says are still treading water years after the financial meltdown.

• An out-of-control natural gas well off the Louisiana coast has caught fire, hours after a blowout that prompted the evacuation of 44 workers.

• Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate kept the world guessing about the name of their first child as they left hospital to start family life with the future king.