Fred Barnes is the executive editor for The Weekly Stanard.

Recall the old saying: Be careful what you wish for. In the struggle over raising the debt limit, it applies to President Obama as well as to congressional Republicans.

Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor for The New Republic.

Last night President Obama finally said to the Republicans what many of his supporters have been thinking for many weeks now: "Enough."

There was a 0.2 percent drop in consumer prices in June from May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics just reported.

Keeping inflation in check: A 6.8 percent drop in gasoline prices.

Also helping: Food prices rose a modest 0.2 percent, the smallest monthly increase so far this year.

Over the last 12 months, BLS added, consumer prices have risen 3.6 percent.

Two people are dead from an early morning traffic crash in Madison County.  The accident shut down lanes in I-75 southbound for hours.  Kentucky State Police trooper Chris Lanham says the crash was caused by a vehicle going the wrong way.

If you're in Los Angeles this weekend and you try to drive anywhere near the 10-mile stretch of Interstate-405 that's closing tonight at 7 p.m. local time, don't say you weren't warned.

As the scandal widens over allegations that his company's tabloids in the U.K. tapped into the cell phones of thousands of people from the royal family down to murder victims. ...

A passenger aboard an Air Canada flight said he was refused service in French, one of Canada's two official languages. So he sued. Michel Thibodeau and his wife won a $12,000 settlement and an apology.

Politicians in Washington, D.C. have finally agreed on legislation. The City Council has proclaimed the official Washington drink. The Rickey is made with gin or whiskey, lime juice and club soda. It was invented at a D.C. bar popular with politicians and reporters in 1883.

A crime drama based in Appalachia continues to earn praise from critics.  This week, “Justified” netted four Emmy nominations.  Rich Copley, who’s an arts and culture reporter for the Lexington Herald offers an explanation.  He also says the final installment in the “Harry Potter” series can pose competition to events take place in Kentucky.  Among those events is a dramedy based in Danville at the end of World War Two.

With President Obama set to hold another news conference later this morning to talk about what's going on, here's some of the latest news about the talks between the White House and congressional leaders from both parties about deficit-reduction and raising the federal government's so-called debt ceiling before Aug. 2 — the day the White House says the government will run out of money and might default on some of its obligations.