Afternoon Buzz: Bush Speaks Out on Walter Reed

The top stories making the rounds this afternoon:

• President Bush will create a bipartisan commission to investigate military medical facilities in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal.
• The United States is a step closer to building the first new atomic weapons since the Cold War by selecting a new design today.
• The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers today over flooding that resulted from broken levees after Hurricane Katrina.
• The Associated Press has admitted that it intentionally refused to cover anything related to celebutante Paris Hilton for one week, in part to see whether clients called up to complain. None did, they say.
• U.S. News's Jay Tolson writes about the legacy of historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a Kennedy confidante who died yesterday at 89.

Etc.: Messy Wounds at Walter Reed, on USNews.com