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John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days; 18 cents a gallon — Mulling proposal to give feds more power to target price gougers — Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a "federal gas tax holiday" by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline — WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump. He also halted for the summer the purchase of crude oil for the government's emergency reserve.
CNN:
Bush takes aim at rising gasoline prices — Summer deposits to national oil reserve halted — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Calling the oil issue a matter of national security, President Bush outlined a plan Tuesday to cut gasoline costs and temporarily stopped deposits to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Washington Post:
Bush Orders Probe Into Gas Pricing — President Bush has asked the Energy and Justice departments to investigate whether gasoline prices have been illegally manipulated, he announced in a speech this morning. — The White House is also asking states to guard against unfair pricing.
Henry Payne / Detroit News:
Mad about gas prices? Blame government, not Big Oil — D espite strong economic growth, the poll numbers of national Republicans dove this month as gasoline prices soared above $3 a gallon. — As opportunistic Democrats pile on, Republicans defensively point to their passage last year …
Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog:
Zarqawi Releases Video Tape (Updated) — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq, has released "the first [videotape] to contain a 'message'... U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News." The tape is titled A Message to the People. This is his first video without a mask …
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MSNBC:
Zarqawi appears in rare Web video — Believed to be first 'message' from al-Qaida in Iraq leader, officials say … MSNBC TV — CAIRO, Egypt - In a rare video posted on the Internet, al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi accused the West and the United States of waging a "crusader" …
Murray Waas / National Journal:
Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes? — When the CIA announced on Friday that it had fired an employee who the agency claims "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence" with a newspaper reporter, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas …
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Data — Post, Others Received Information; CIA Investigations Ongoing — Washington Post staff writer Dafna Linzer was online Tuesday, April 25, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the firing of CIA intelligence officer Mary McCarthy for leaking classified information …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Help Me! I Am Trapped In This Circle Of Logic! — Dana Linzer of the WaPo answered questions about sacked CIA officer Mary McCarthy in an online WaPo chat. I am still spinning from this one: … But... but... if Ms. McCarthy was *not* a source for Dana Priest, then there is no compact, yes?
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: TY COBB AIN'T NO BENCHWARMER
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President Discusses Energy Policy — Washington, D.C. — Fact Sheet: President Bush's Four-Part Plan to Confront High Gasoline Prices — In Focus: Energy — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Bob, thanks for the introduction. It's always good to be introduced by somebody who is referred to as the "Promoter in Chief."
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Snow In May? — A week after White House press secretary Scott McClellan suddenly resigned, and — nothing. — Late last week, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten directly (firmly but politely) asked senior administration officials to stop unburdening themselves to the process-hungry Washington press corps.
Lynne Duke / Washington Post:
The Enigmatic Man — Claude Allen's Desire to Rise in the GOP Puzzled Some, but His Fall Confounds Them More — They left the Durham city limits and entered the real South. — For Amy Kraham, the change was striking as she ventured out of the cocoon of Duke University that summer of 1987 …
Ben Platt / MLB.com:
Monday's act heroic after 30 years — Outfielder recalls protecting country's honor from protesters — LOS ANGELES — It was 1976, a fun year for America. It was the country's bicentennial, the war in Vietnam had ended a year earlier and everyone really wanted to put all the problems from the 1960s …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lone Lawmaker Blocks Flight 93 Monument in Pa. — For emotional wallop, there are few rivals to the windswept, grassy field outside of Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. — But for three years, that field has made do with a makeshift monument …
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