United States United States Senator Christopher Dodd submits a draft of a bill that would reform financial regulation, mostly in accord with the proposals of President Barack Obama's administration.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict After hundreds of photographs and movies are declassified by the Israel Defense Forces, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center publishes a report showing Hamas using children as human shields as well as operating out of mosques and hospitals in the recent Gaza War.
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, did not claim that relations between the two countries face their worst crisis in 38 years.