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8:30 PM ET, April 5, 2006

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TBO.com:
Porn Sting Nabs Federal Official  —  LAKELAND - When he wasn't sending pornographic movies to and asking for explicit photos from a teenage girl in Polk County, a Maryland man was bragging about his job as a spokesman at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement officers said.
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CNN:
Sources: McKinney case heading to grand jury  —  Federal prosecutors could have a decision by next week  —  (CNN) — No more he-grabbed-she-slapped — whether U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney should be charged over a confrontation with Capitol Police last week will be decided by a grand jury …
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Harry Shearer / The Huffington Post:
Found Object: DeLay on Hardball  —  To see just how grateful Chris Matthews was for getting the Tom DeLay scoop, and what DeLay may think of Hillary Clinton, go here.  Thanks to the usual source gods.  —  Player not working?  Download the quicktime video here.
New York Times:
Couric Announces Departure From 'Today' Show  —  Katie Couric, the most successful host in the more than 50-year history of NBC's "Today" show, told her audience of more than 6 million viewers this morning that she will step down from the program and leave NBC when her contract concludes at the end of next month.
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Caroline Daniel / MSNBC:
Rubin's economic group to chart course for Democrats  —  Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and most influential Democratic economic adviser, launched an initiative on Wednesday aimed at influencing the economic policy debate and charting a course …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Sirotablog
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Treasury Secretary Is Said to Be Thinking of Quitting
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Feingold is helping to redefine the political 'mainstream'  —  I mentioned Peter Beinart's piece on Russ Feingold a few weeks ago, but it's relevant again in light of the senator's comments yesterday on gay marriage.  —  As Beinart explained, Feingold is taking chances by staking …
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Associated Press:
Feingold Says He Supports Gay Marriage
Discussion: Left in the West and Eschaton
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
McCAIN AND THE BASE....Jon Stewart grilled John McCain last night about McCain's recent efforts to cozy up to Jerry Falwell and demonstrated that sometimes fake journalists do their jobs better than real ones.  He pressed McCain harder than Tim Russert did last Sunday and got McCain flustered enough …
Discussion: PSoTD and The Carpetbagger Report
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Lincoln Madison / The Third Path:   John McCain on The Daily Show
Elaine Silvestrini / tboblogs.com:
Officer Pleads No Contest  —  The man who headed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Tampa has pleaded no contest to charges he exposed himself to a girl in a mall food court and ran away from security guards.  —  Frank Figueroa, 49, originally said he was not guilty.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Debbie Schlussel
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Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Sestak's battles — naval, familial and political  —  Sitting in the oncology ward at Children's National Medical Center on Jan. 19, retired Adm. Joe Sestak and his wife, Susan, awaited the doctors' verdict about the condition of their 5-year-old daughter, Alexandra.
Steven Waldman / Slate:
The Religious Left  —  It is fruitful and has multiplied.  —  Lo and behold, there is a religious left.  The Catholic Church is helping to lead the fight against immigration restrictions.  A week doesn't seem to pass without some group convening a conference on religion and liberalism.
Discussion: Greg's Opinion
Sean / Myelectionanalysis.com:
Numbers  —  What are these numbers?  This week's Powerball winners?  A safe deposit combo?  New numbers to torment those poor b*stards stranded on the island in Lost?  —  No, they're the number of troops that have died in hostile actions in Iraq for each of the past six months.
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Apple Allows Windows on Its Machines  —  Turning a decades-long rivalry on its head, Apple Computer introduced software today that it says will easily allow users to install Microsoft's Windows XP operating system on Apple's newest computers.  —  The software, Boot Camp …
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Agencies Not Protecting Privacy Rights, GAO Says  —  Government agencies that use private information services for law enforcement, counterterrorism and other investigations often do not follow federal rules to protect Americans' privacy, according to a report yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
Eliot A. Cohen / Washington Post:
Yes, It's Anti-Semitic  —  Academic papers posted on a Harvard Web site don't normally attract enthusiastic praise from prominent white supremacists.  But John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" has won David Duke's endorsement as "a modern Declaration …
John Noble Wilford / New York Times:
Scientists Call Fish Fossil the 'Missing Link'  —  Scientists have discovered fossils of a 375 million-year-old fish, a large scaly creature not seen before, that they say is a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on four limbs on land.
Chris Hansen / MSNBC:
'To Catch a Predator' III  —  Dateline's ongoing hidden camera investigation into computer sex predators—grown men, trolling the Web for sex with minors.  This time, police are making arrests  —  Nbc  —  Mugshots: 50 men were arrested after the latest installment of the "Dateline" report.
Discussion: TPM Muckraker
nbcsandiego.com:
Schools Ban Patriotic Clothes, Flags  —  SAN DIEGO — In the wake of last week's immigration-reform protests, one school district is taking drastic measures, banning all symbols of patriotism, both U.S. and Mexican.  —  Images: Schools Ban Patriotic Clothes, Flags  —  Discuss: District Bans Patriotic Clothes, Flags
 
 
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Authorities reveal e-mail message
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Arthur Bright / Christian Science Monitor:
Has Al Qaeda demoted Zarqawi?
John Stossel / Townhall.com:
I still want to teach  —  Last month, 500 angry schoolteachers …
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National Review:
86 the Anti-527 Action  —  We're old enough to remember …
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Rice Dismisses Talk of U.S. Bases in Iraq
Meghan Clyne / New York Sun:
U.N. Provokes a New Standoff Over U.S. Demands on Budget
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
The political game  —  Peter Wehner's article in the Opinion Journal …
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Mass. Bill Requires Health Coverage
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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