Kate Middleton's big news, Obama's live Twitter chat, and more

BARACK OBAMA President Obama's #My2K Twitter chat The socially savvy president answers questions about the fiscal cliff, the Bush tax cuts, and more THE ROYAL FAMILY Kate Middleton is pregnant: What we know so far The endlessly scrutinized royal couple announces that they're expecting their first child — a possible heir to the throne BUDGET BATTLES The fiscal cliff: Have Republican forgotten how to negotiate? President Obama has apparently learned the art of the deal. Can Republicans make him an offer he can't refuse? SMARTPHONE WARS The text message turns 20: A brief history of SMS The first message sent two decades ago simply read "Merry Christmas" U.S. BUSINESS Rupert Murdoch shutters The Daily: First reactions News. Corp is closing its groundbreaking, money-bleeding, iPad-only newspaper less than two years after its debut THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION 5 strikes against Susan Rice If President Obama taps the U.N. ambassador for secretary of state, he's going to have a big fight on his hands FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE What would happen if we nuked the moon? To move the moon out of its orbit, humanity would have to strike it with a force 1.5 million times greater than our collective nuclear arsenal SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE Still no word from SCOTUS on gay marriage cases NEWSER Solved: Case of the missing island NEW YORK MAGAZINE Virgin Atlantic is about to get gobbled up by Delta THE FRISKY 4 tips for understanding your nightmares SALON Pope joins Twitter Thou shalt not misspell A controversial Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma contains several typos — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation         Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy  Copyright © 2012 The Week, All rights reserved.