Wisconsin state Senator Mary Lazich calls a judge's ruling voiding collective bargaining restrictions "very leftist."

CNN's Fareed Zakaria predicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ultimately go down as a comma in history.

CLICK HERE to read Zakaria's column about Netanyahu in The Washington Post.

Newton Co. Coroner Mark Bridges says families will soon have greater access to ID loved ones killed in Sunday's tornado.

Gov. Jay Nixon says while the process of identifying tornado victims is improved, some bodies remain "unrecognizable."

Dan Mitchell, minister of Lantz Hare, explains how the teen's body was found 4 days after a tornado in Joplin, Missouri.

JOPLIN, Missouri (CNN) – A Missouri mother said today that her 16-year-old son was killed by this week's powerful tornado, one of scores who have been confirmed dead even as authorities try to track down many others who are still considered missing.

Michelle Hare told CNN that her son Lantz, who was ripped from a car Sunday night by winds exceeding 200 mph in Joplin, is dead and his body has been located.  FULL POST

Today’s Number of the Day is 1.8 percent.

You might have thought that the number would be 26 —that’s the number of the Congressional district in upstate New York in which Democrats won a House seat on Tuesday. Kathy Hochul’s upset victory is suggesting to some that the political narrative of the next few months will take a decidedly pro-Obama turn.

But the political fates of the next year still depend more than anything else on the unemployment rate, and hence the job-creating capacity of the economy.

All of which requires Gross Domestic Product growth. A GDP growth rate of 1.8 %–reported today by the Commerce Department for the first quarter of this year and down from 3.1 percent from the last quarter of last year—won’t do it for the president. FULL POST

ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s five OFF-SET questions is James Foley, an American journalist for GlobalPost who was freed after six weeks of detention in Libya.

Foley arrived at rebel-held front lines near Brega on April 5, along with reporters Clare Gillis–also from the U.S. - Anton Hammerl of South Africa, and Spanish photographer Manu Brabo. The rebel soldiers they were travelling with fled, as pro-Gadhafi soldiers surrounded them, firing AK-47s over their heads, GlobalPost reports. Hammerl was shot in the abdomen, while the three others were punched in the head and handcuffed with electrical cords. After being held for weeks, Foley, Gillis and Brabo were freed and crossed the border into Tunisia on May 19.

You, Gillis and Brabo were kept in a series of detention centers in Tripoli. Were you held together? Questioned by authorities?

Claire and I were held together for 12 days in a military detertion center. After that, we were all moved to a general prison and separated. We were put—on the men’s side–among Libyan political prisoners.

We were questioned–there were several long interrogations. And there were court appearances which appeared to give aribtrary sentences. We were charged with entering without a visa and reporting without permission. Ultimately, due to diplomacy and media pressure, we were freed on one-year suspended sentences and charged a minimal fee. FULL POST

THE POLITICS OF OVERHAULING MEDICARE – Despite Democratic claims their upset victory in a special election in western New York was proof of a voter backlash against the GOP plan to overhaul Medicare, House Republicans are sticking by their proposal but admitting they need to do a better job explaining it to voters.

The main target of the Democratic attacks, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, who authored the GOP Medicare plan, conceded his proposal does give Democrats a political tool to hold up next fall. "If you're willing to lie and demagogue Medicare and scare seniors, then yeah, they have a political weapon," Ryan told CNN. FULL POST