ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The public outing of the CIA station chief here threatened on Monday to deepen the rift between the United States and Pakistan, with U.S. officials saying they believed the disclosure had been made deliberately by Pakistan's main spy agency.

If true, the leak would be a sign that Pakistan's powerful security establishment, far from feeling chastened by the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison city last week, is seeking to demonstrate its leverage over Washington and retaliate for the unilateral U.S. operation.

NEW YORK — House Speaker John A. Boehner defined the GOP's terms for raising the legal limit on government borrowing Monday, demanding that President Obama reduce spending by more than $2 trillion in exchange for an increase big enough to cover the nation's bills through the end of next year.

Delivering a sermon on fiscal austerity to a Wall Street crowd clamoring for compromise on the debt limit, Boehner (Ohio) firmly rejected any effort to raise taxes. He also called on Democrats to engage in "honest conversations about how best to preserve Medicare," signaling that House Republicans remain committed to restructuring at least some portions of the program.

Virginians are closely divided over whether gay marriage should be legal, according to a new Washington Post poll, a striking result in a state that overwhelmingly agreed to amend its constitution to ban gay marriage just five years ago.

Forty-seven percent of Virginians say gay couples should be allowed to legally wed, and 43 percent are opposed, according to the poll. Fifty-five percent of Virginians say gay couples should be able to legally adopt children.

The results mirror a dramatic and rapid shift in national public opinion about gay rights in recent years. The evolving public opinion could create a challenge in the key political battleground for the commonwealth's Republicans, who are almost universally opposed to gay marriage, if voters think the GOP is falling out of sync with the electorate. But the results also present complications for Virginia Democrats, who have moved more slowly than their national counterparts to embrace liberal social stands for fear of alienating independent voters.

President Obama will stand on the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday and try to take credit for something that eluded predecessors in both parties: successfully cracking down on illegal immigration.

It is a record that Republicans roundly dispute. And it has drawn fire from many in Obama's Latino base, who say the president has stepped up enforcement measures such as deportations while failing to deliver on his pledge to create a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

But in using a speech in El Paso to highlight his enforcement record, Obama will signal that he intends to try turning the immigration debate into a political winner among conservative swing voters who back tougher immigration policies.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Mississippi rose toward the highest level ever in the river city, flooding pockets of low-lying neighborhoods and forcing more than 1,000 people from their homes, though the water was not threatening the music heartland's most recognizable landmarks, from Graceland to Beale Street.

As residents waited for the river to reach its peak as early as Monday night — several inches short of the record mark set in 1937 — those downstream in Mississippi and Louisiana evacuated prisoners and diverted water from the river in an attempt to stave off catastrophic flooding that has a long history of hitting the area.

NEW YORK — House Speaker John A. Boehner defined the GOP's terms for raising the legal limit on government borrowing Monday, demanding that President Obama reduce spending by more than $2 trillion in exchange for an increase big enough to cover the nation's bills through the end of next year.

Delivering a sermon on fiscal austerity to a Wall Street crowd clamoring for compromise on the debt limit, Boehner (Ohio) firmly rejected any effort to raise taxes. He also called on Democrats to engage in "honest conversations about how best to preserve Medicare," signaling that House Republicans remain committed to restructuring at least some portions of the program.

President Obama will stand on the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday and try to take credit for something that eluded predecessors in both parties: successfully cracking down on illegal immigration.

It is a record that Republicans roundly dispute. And it has drawn fire from many in Obama's Latino base, who say the president has stepped up enforcement measures such as deportations while failing to deliver on his pledge to create a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

But in using a speech in El Paso to highlight his enforcement record, Obama will signal that he intends to try turning the immigration debate into a political winner among conservative swing voters who back tougher immigration policies.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has always been a divisive figure — even within the Republican party. So, it's not all that surprising that Gingrich's plan to run for president in 2012, which will be formally announced on Wednesday, has quickly divided people into two camps.

On one side are those who believe Newt is an old face in a party hungering for new ones, a man whose political abilities are only exceeded by his belief in those abilities. For that group, Newt is a sideshow — a highly entertaining one, to be sure, but not someone who is a serious candidate for the nomination.

As Rep. James E. Clyburn settles behind his desk on the first floor of the Capitol, the view behind him — of the office buildings across Independence Avenue — is less than commanding. His office is high-ceilinged but narrow, and the walls are bare. Multiple aides are crammed into an adjoining room.

It's a far cry from the spacious third-floor suite the South Carolina lawmaker occupied when he served as majority whip. But now that Democrats have been relegated to the minority, Clyburn is fortunate just to have an office in the Capitol and, more importantly, a place at the leadership table.

BAGHDAD — The United States' pleas for Iraq's government to decide "within weeks" whether American troops should stay beyond a year-end deadline to leave will not be met, Iraqi politicians say, complicating plans for the U.S. military withdrawal.

The Iraqi politicians attributed this to a confluence of domestic issues. Political brinkmanship, popular unrest and mounting mistrust among lawmakers have conspired to make a decision on a lasting U.S. military presence politically untouchable for Iraqi politicians for months to come.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The public outing of the CIA station chief here threatened on Monday to deepen the rift between the United States and Pakistan, with U.S. officials saying they believed the disclosure had been made deliberately by Pakistan's main spy agency.

If true, the leak would be a sign that Pakistan's powerful security establishment, far from feeling chastened by the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison city last week, is seeking to demonstrate its leverage over Washington and retaliate for the unilateral U.S. operation.

BAGHDAD — Outside Baghdad Hospital, the gates are freshly painted white these days. Sidewalks are being cemented and marigolds planted, gestures of civility virtually impossible during the war, when Iraq's marquee public hospital was overwhelmed with casualties and itself targeted by mortar shells and bombs.

Inside, Iraqis marvel at the dispensers of blue hand sanitizer mounted at each door and the faint soapy smell of clean hallways. Health Ministry officials tout new medical equipment and facilities — an entire wing stocked with $10,000 machines to treat bone spurs, a multimillion-dollar cancer treatment center — evoking a proud era when Iraq had perhaps the finest health-care sector in the Middle East.

JERUSALEM — The reconciliation pact signed last week by the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas was denounced by Israel and has left Washington weighing its response, but Palestinian mediators who helped broker the deal say it opens new opportunities for a resumption of peace talks.

The accord, which provides for the formation of a transitional government of technocrats to prepare for elections in a year, also sets a goal that Fatah and Hamas say they share: a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with a capital in Jerusalem, next to Israel.

BEIRUT — Syrian troops detained hundreds more people in towns across the country on Monday as they pursued their relentless crackdown against the stubbornly persistent protest movement that has swelled in recent weeks to challenge the government.

Troops backed by tanks sealed off the Damascus suburb of Moadamiya in the small hours of the morning, and residents heard gunfire as soldiers conducted house- to- house raids looking for people who had joined in recent anti-government demonstrations. Witnesses said they saw nine busloads of prisoners being taken away, said Wissam Tarif of the human rights group Insan.

SANTA CRUZ,
Galapagos Islands

It's hard to tell whether Lonesome George, the last known survivor of his giant tortoise species, is truly lonely.

The nearly 100-year-old reptile hasn't spent a day alone in four decades and recently moved in with two new potential girlfriends of a similar species.

SANTA CRUZ,
Galapagos Islands

It's hard to tell whether Lonesome George, the last known survivor of his giant tortoise species, is truly lonely.

The nearly 100-year-old reptile hasn't spent a day alone in four decades and recently moved in with two new potential girlfriends of a similar species.

SANTA CRUZ,
Galapagos Islands

It's hard to tell whether Lonesome George, the last known survivor of his giant tortoise species, is truly lonely.

The nearly 100-year-old reptile hasn't spent a day alone in four decades and recently moved in with two new potential girlfriends of a similar species.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Ernie Els followed the trail of South African idol Gary Player by winning golf tournaments all over the world, a journey that took him all the way to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Els, a three-time major champion and the ultimate global player of his generation, was among six people inducted Monday night at the World Golf Village. Known as the "Big Easy" for his languid swing and soothing smile, Els won 62 times around the world, including the U.S. Open twice and a British Open at Muirfield.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Ernie Els followed the trail of South African idol Gary Player by winning golf tournaments all over the world, a journey that took him all the way to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Els, a three-time major champion and the ultimate global player of his generation, was among six people inducted Monday night at the World Golf Village. Known as the "Big Easy" for his languid swing and soothing smile, Els won 62 times around the world, including the U.S. Open twice and a British Open at Muirfield.

LONDON — Tiger Woods has dropped to eighth in the world golf rankings after being overtaken by Paul Casey of England.

Casey moved up to seventh in the rankings released Monday despite missing the cut last week at the Wells Fargo Championship. Woods skipped the event because of knee and Achilles' tendon injuries.

Fourth-ranked Phil Mickelson of the United States is now the only non-European player in the top seven.

Calling it "just too good an offer," Texas A&M Coach Mark Turgeon announced Monday night that he had accepted the job of men's basketball coach at Maryland.

Maryland Athletic Director Kevin Anderson confirmed the hire in a telephone conversation, saying, "We're following the tradition of the great coaches that have coached the University of Maryland basketball team."

The hire brought to an end an ambitious search for a proven successor to Gary Williams, who stunned Terrapins fans, administrators and players alike last Thursday by announcing that he would retire after 22 years as head coach of his alma mater.

It's heartening fifth, sixth or 13th choice Mark Turgeon took Gary Williams's old job. Because if the Texas A&M coach had turned down Maryland, I would hate to be Kevin Anderson today.

High-profile names who have either outright rejected the Maryland men's basketball job, refused to enter into conversations with the athletic director about the opening or flat-out used Anderson and the school for a salary bump: Arizona's Sean Miller, Notre Dame's Mike Brey, Villanova's Jay Wright, Pittsburgh's Jamie Dixon and Butler's Brad Stevens.

When George Washington President Steven Knapp introduced new men's basketball Coach Mike Lonergan at a news conference on Monday, he spoke about Lonergan's deep connection to the Washington region.

"He really knows our community," Knapp said.

And as Lonergan made clear during his speech, the 45-year-old Bowie native really knows Washington basketball and GW basketball in particular.

BOSTON —LeBron James has experienced enough heartache in Boston, with the Celtics ending his season at TD Garden in two of the previous three postseasons, including last year, when he ripped off his Cleveland Cavaliers jersey for the final time. He linked up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami to change the narrative, to avoid having to carry the load alone and move closer to capturing that elusive championship.

James was vilified for "The Decision," crucified for dancing on stage with Wade and Bosh last summer. But now, after scoring a game-high 35 points with 14 rebounds to lead the Heat to a 98-90 overtime win in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, James is one victory away from finally knocking off the Celtics — and he may not have to come back to Boston this season.

John Wall and Jordan Crawford were an exciting backcourt pair at the end of the regular season, sharing ball-handling duties, going on scoring binges and making history. And, on Tuesday at 11 a.m., the two players will take their turns as models when the Wizards unveil their new red, white and blue look at a highly-anticipated news conference.

The Wizards have been working on changing their identity ever since Ted Leonsis took over as owner of the team last June. Despite the clamoring from a large portion of the fan base for the franchise to change its name back to the Bullets, the team will continue to be called Wizards, but Leonsis will at least appease those who are craving for the old color scheme.

When it ended and Phil Jackson got up from his cushioned chair for the final time, there was some relief, almost a peace, which seemed to overcome him. He shook hands with Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, offered congratulations to a few players and strode off the court at American Airlines Center with that bowlegged, bad-hip gait, a wry smile, and his head held high. His season, his legendary career, was over earlier than anyone expected, and he was okay with it.

Jackson didn't go out the way he wanted to – with the Los Angeles Lakers' quest for a three-peat upended with a stunning second-round sweep by the Dallas Mavericks and his players losing their minds and their composure in a manner that contradicted the calm, steady way he went about his business in nearly 20 years as an NBA coach.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Sometime last week, Jayson Werth received a text message from his agent, Scott Boras, that unlocked something for him. It was a simple message, because baseball, once you strip away the television cameras and empty clichés and white noise, is a simple game.

The message read: "The key is get on base and use your speed."

"It was kind of an enlightening moment," Werth said Saturday afternoon, sipping a cup of coffee at his locker. "It was like, 'Oh yeah. We're still playing baseball here.' Get on base, use your speed. That's my game. That's what makes me. That philosophy, it's very simple, but it's right."

Bryce Harper, in what must have been an easy vote for whomever votes on these awards, won the South Atlantic League player of the week award, announced today. In six games, Harper went 12 for 24 with one home run, four doubles and five walks.

Harper, 18, continued a tear that began roughly when he received new contact lenses and his now hitting .371/.460/.701 in 28 games this season at Class A Hagerstown. Harper, perhaps owing to his enhanced vision, has recently cut down on his strikeouts. After he whiffed 17 times in his first 59 at-bats, Harper has struck out five times in his last 38 at-bats.

LAS VEGAS — UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar's fight against challenger Gray Maynard at UFC 130 has been canceled after both fighters were injured during training.

Edgar's third meeting with Maynard was slated to be the main event at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas on May 28.

UFC president Dana White said Monday that Edgar has injured ribs, and Maynard has a knee injury.

HAMBURG, Germany — WBA champion David Haye vowed to expose IBF and WBO titleholder Wladimir Klitschko as a "fraud" in their heavyweight unification bout on July 2.

The 30-year-old Haye said the Ukrainian had only fought "little fat puddings who turn up for a pay check" when the pair met at a news conference Monday in Hamburg's 57,000-seat Imtech Arena, where the bout will take place.

"He's a fraud and I'm good at exposing frauds," said the Briton, who has a 25-1 record with 23 knockouts.

THE GREAT NIGHT

By Chris Adrian

Farrar Straus Giroux. 292 pp. $26

Bristol Palin and her 2-year-old son, Tripp, are going to do a reality TV series for Bio channel in which they move in with actor brothers Chris and Kyle Massey and they all live together in the Masseys' big house in an exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood.

Bio cable network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the unnamed reality series in which Bristol — the country's most famous unwed-pregnant-daughter-of-vice-presidential-candidate-turned-abstinence-advocate-turned-"Dancing With the Stars"-competitor — moves from Alaska and shares a roof with "her good friends Chris and Kyle Massey" while working for a small children's charity. The name of the charity is still under wraps.

In the stirring yet unsatisfying documentary "Becoming Chaz," which airs Tuesday night on OWN, a Los Angeles woman who has lived a life of relative despair (including the death of a lover, the stillbirth of a singing career and a struggle with painkiller addiction) can only truly heal herself by becoming himself. We follow Chaz Bono through a significant part of the process that took place in 2010, including hormone treatments and the surgical removal of his breasts.

As many know, Chaz Salvatore Bono was once Chastity Sun Bono, born in 1969 during the pop heyday of her parents, Sonny and Cher. (The Bonos were so saturated in show biz that they named Chastity for a disastrous movie project that same year, directed by Sonny and starring Cher.)

When James Blake presses down on the keys of his Prophet 08 synthesizer, it makes plush and mysterious sounds — like something out of a funeral chapel or a video game.

But when he sings, he's all melancholy hiccups punctuated by long, purposeful silences. Time starts to wobble. Dead air comes alive.

The young Londoner's Sunday night performance at the Rock & Roll Hotel — his first in the United States outside of New York or South by Southwest — lasted only an hour, but an hour is a long time to hold your breath. As the singer made good on the smog of hype hanging over his self-titled debut album, the capacity crowd stood rapt, hesitant even to mouth along for fear of breaking those magic silences.

Tyler, the Creator, is the leader of the Los Angeles-based underground hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, a sometime solo artist and, at 20 going on 8, rap's current Boy King. He has just released his scenery-chewing second disc, the entirely horrifying and occasionally artful "Goblin," after many months of mix tapes and self-releases.

Those releases positioned Tyler as the Travis Bickle of rap, a vitriolic, hyper-violent, roiling bucket of hyperbole and teenage id whose fondness for rapping about murder, rape and all-purpose pillaging makes Slim Shady look like a Jonas brother.

Or New York. That's where the band formed in the early aughties, rubbing elbows with kindred avant-rock troupes Animal Collective and TV on the Radio. But as those bands pole-vaulted out of indieland and into a splintering mainstream, Gang Gang Dance's brainy swirl of dub, Bollywood and reggaeton remained largely subterranean.

Bio cable network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the unnamed reality series in which Bristol — the country's most famous unwed-pregnant-daughter-of-vice-presidential-candidate-turned-abstinence-advocate-turned-"Dancing With the Stars"-competitor — moves from Alaska and shares a roof with "her good friends Chris and Kyle Massey" while working for a small children's charity. The name of the charity is still under wraps.

In the stirring yet unsatisfying documentary "Becoming Chaz," which airs Tuesday night on OWN, a Los Angeles woman who has lived a life of relative despair (including the death of a lover, the stillbirth of a singing career and a struggle with painkiller addiction) can only truly heal herself by becoming himself. We follow Chaz Bono through a significant part of the process that took place in 2010, including hormone treatments and the surgical removal of his breasts.

As many know, Chaz Salvatore Bono was once Chastity Sun Bono, born in 1969 during the pop heyday of her parents, Sonny and Cher. (The Bonos were so saturated in show biz that they named Chastity for a disastrous movie project that same year, directed by Sonny and starring Cher.)

When James Blake presses down on the keys of his Prophet 08 synthesizer, it makes plush and mysterious sounds — like something out of a funeral chapel or a video game.

But when he sings, he's all melancholy hiccups punctuated by long, purposeful silences. Time starts to wobble. Dead air comes alive.

The young Londoner's Sunday night performance at the Rock & Roll Hotel — his first in the United States outside of New York or South by Southwest — lasted only an hour, but an hour is a long time to hold your breath. As the singer made good on the smog of hype hanging over his self-titled debut album, the capacity crowd stood rapt, hesitant even to mouth along for fear of breaking those magic silences.

Bristol Palin and her 2-year-old son, Tripp, are going to do a reality TV series for Bio channel in which they move in with actor brothers Chris and Kyle Massey and they all live together in the Masseys' big house in an exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood.

Bio cable network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the unnamed reality series in which Bristol — the country's most famous unwed-pregnant-daughter-of-vice-presidential-candidate-turned-abstinence-advocate-turned-"Dancing With the Stars"-competitor — moves from Alaska and shares a roof with "her good friends Chris and Kyle Massey" while working for a small children's charity. The name of the charity is still under wraps.

THE GREAT NIGHT

By Chris Adrian

Farrar Straus Giroux. 292 pp. $26

As good as Matthew Morrison's self-titled debut is, it's hard to imagine it would ever have been released if Morrison didn't star as dreamy Mr. Schue on "Glee." An appealingly dorky, commercially dubious, family-friendly pop offering, it recalls a long-lost Robbie Williams disc or a Justin Timberlake album without the electro-R&B. Or the sex: "Matthew Morrison" is as well-scrubbed a mainstream release as you're likely to hear all year.

Morrison started out on Broadway, and the bigger and more belty the songs get, the more comfortable he seems. His solo numbers are fine, such as the wages-of-fame lament "My Name" ("I didn't mean to disappoint / But I'm not who you think I am"), but he's better with company. 

Soul revivalist Raphael Saadiq credits "people who love music" as executive producer on his latest solo album, and that's certainly the audience, as opposed to hipsters or tastemakers, that the former Tony! Toni! Tone! mainstay has cultivated throughout his career. Not concerned with whether his records will be dubbed retro or old school, Saadiq exults in the glories of '60s and '70s R&B, keeping the music alive and often producing the epiphanies that such devotion repays.

The album-opening "Heart Attack," for example, combines a vintage Chess Records-style echo with chank-a-lank funk guitar and a gutbucket groove reminiscent of Junior Walker's "Shotgun." The result is a dance workout that, by virtue of the sum of its parts, feels like a whole new thing. "Radio," the record's first single, dirties up its gospel-born call-and-response with a shot of neo-garage-rock testosterone. "Over You," a pleading ballad, overlays Wall of Sound strings and big-beat drums with punk angst.

Make no mistake, the Cars were a great singles band. The quintet came roaring out of the Boston club scene in 1978 and went on to place 13 songs in the Top 40 through 1986. But rarely does one enter into a debate on which side of, say, "Heartbeat City" is a more cohesive listening experience. In fact, the band wrote some of the lousiest album filler in rock history.

Which brings up "Move Like This," the first time in 22 years that leader Ric Ocasek and the rest of the original lineup — except for bassist Benjamin Orr, who passed away in 2000 — have worked together. The quartet of 50-year-old-plus rockers has no trouble summoning the spirit of earlier work . . . except for the great singles part.