The CIA has warned Israel that Iran will attack the country in the next 48 hours, it has been reported. Israel killed two Iranian military commanders with a strike on Tehran's consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus this week.

Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice, she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land.