In The News...

The Cassini spacecraft will travel 2.2 billion miles to Saturn. "To put that distance in perspective, think of Saturn as downtown Los Angeles. You're in Riverside. It's 7 a.m. on a Monday morning and it's raining." (Kenny Noble Cortes)

The U.S. and Japan reached an agreement that averts a trade war that would have stopped Japanese ships from entering U.S. ports, says the Daily Scoop. "It was touch and go there on Friday. For a while it looked like hundreds of thousands of Tamagotchis were gonna die at sea."

"The Senate defeated the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. No one will take credit for the kill. Five GOP senators were last seen heading to the golf course to find the real killers." (Hamilton)