• GOP Strategist and proprietor of Mullings.com Rich Galen calls in at 7:30am Pacific to give us the GOP view of the President’s overseas trip and Sotomayor’s nomination.

• President Obama promised today to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools, and summer youth programs. Obama is ramping up his stimulus program this week even as advisers are ramping down expectations about when the spending plan will effect a continuing rise in the nation’s unemployment.

• North Korea’s top court convicted two American journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in a prison today, intensifying the reclusive nation’s confrontation with the U.S. One of the journalists sentenced is Laura Ling, sister of former “The View” host Lisa Ling.

• With 17 bodies pulled so far from the Atlantic, Brazilian and French military ships have no doubt they’ve located the wreckage of an Air France flight a week after it disappeared en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

• Indiana pension funds and consumer groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to stop the sale of bankrupt automaker Chrysler to a group led by Italian carmaker Fiat while they challenge the deal.