timemagazine:

The latest issue of TIME, featuring our cover story on the rise of attachment parenting, “Are You Mom Enough?” hits newsstands Friday. 

(On the cover: Jamie Grumet, 26, and her son, 3, whom she breastfeeds. Photograph by Martin Schoeller for TIME)

Read more here.

The cover’s still causing quite a stir. What do you think? Actress Alyssa Milano, herself a new mother, echoed many complaints when she tweeted to her 2 million followers:

Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

New York, US: Dancers perform during open auditions for the Radio City Rockettes dance company’s 2012 Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

See more in our 24 hours in pictures series.

Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

It’s 20 years since the race riots sparked by the police beating of Rodney King that shook Los Angeles and the US. See how the LA streets affected look now and how the news was covered with reports from our archive:

From the archive: Riots fire US race divide

The United States was tottering last night on the brink of a new racial crisis, pitting black against white in the nation’s cities, which turned Los Angeles into a war zone on Wednesday night. In Atlanta, the last resting place of Martin Luther King, students went on a copycat rampage in a shopping mall. Police reported a number of beatings and arrests. In Washington, President Bush went on television to appeal for calm, trying to contain a potentially explosive situation nationwide after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers accused of beating a black motorist, Rodney King.

More ribbing of Mitt Romney by Barack Obama at the White House’s correspondents’ dinner - video highlights of his speech at this link.

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First Hilz now the Pres? Man you guys know how to do US politics.

The Barackness Monster. Brillz.

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Photograph: The White House/Getty Images

This moving and poignant image was taken on Wednesday though only just arrived with us overnight. President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Michigan

inothernews:

(original image by AFP-Getty via the New York Post; h/t textsfromhillary)

Hillary Clinton parties on in Colombia

accuweather:

Live Tracking: Watch the Tornado Outbreak on Radar

A dangerous tornado outbreak is set to unfold across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma later today. Follow the storms on radar to stay alert of the situation.

Here’s the latest report on the tornadoes from our US team.