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CBS Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur — Dismissal Caps Week Of Uproar Over Radio Host's Comments About Rutgers Women's Basketball Team — (CBS/AP) CBS announced Thursday that it has fired Don Imus from his radio program, following a week of uproar over the radio host's derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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Associated Press:
CBS fires Don Imus from radio show — Decision comes day after MSNBC drops shock jock's TV simulcast — NEW YORK - CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters. — Imus initially was given a two-week suspension …
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New York Times:
CBS Drops Imus Radio Show Over Racial Remark — CBS brought the tumultuous weeklong crisis over racially insensitive remarks by the radio host Don Imus to an end late this afternoon when it canceled the "Imus in the Morning" program, effective immediately. — The move came one day after MSNBC …
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Media Matters for America:
It's not just Imus — On April 11, NBC News announced that it was dropping MSNBC's simulcast of Imus in the Morning in the wake of the controversy that erupted over host Don Imus' reference to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
WCBS-TV:
CBS Radio Fires Don Imus — (CBS) NEW YORK BREAKING NEWS: CBS Radio fired Don Imus Thursday, one day after MSNBC discontinued its relationship with his radio show. — CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves issued the following statement regarding the decision:
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors — The White House said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party accounts may include some relating to the firing of eight United States attorneys. — The disclosure became a fresh political problem for the White House …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Bush administration's terrible luck with finding documents — I feel — in this vaguely intuitive sort of way — as though there is some kind of a pattern buried within this set of facts, but as much as I search, I just can't quite figure out what it might be: — New York Times, today:
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Rove Emails Missing from RNC Server — In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked that the Justice Department retain all emails received or sent to a White House official's RNC-issued email address.
Faiz / Think Progress:Perino 'Defends' Email Statements: I Didn't Lie, I Just Had No Idea …
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Financial Times:
Wolfowitz must be told to resign now — The president of the World Bank has one asset: his credibility. The Bank's capacity to make a difference lies not in its money and ideas but in its ability to be the world's voice for development. This includes, as Paul Wolfowitz, the current president …
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Richard Miniter / Pajamas Media:
BREAKING: PRESENT AT THE BOMBING — In this exclusive report he describes the carnage, the aftermath, and what led up to it, including the fact that two suicide vests were discovered inside the Green Zone on April 1, with a resulting, if unsuccessful, search for others.
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Steve Connor / The Independent:
The prospect of all-female conception — Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today. — Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells …
Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:
Turkish Army Seeks OK for Iraq Raids — AP Photo ANK104 — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's military asked the government Thursday to approve attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, signaling growing frustration over a lack of action against the guerrillas by Iraqi and U.S. forces.
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Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
DUKE CASE: WILL THE TIMES APOLOGIZE? — REVERSE the races, change the sport, and you have the Kobe Bryant "rape" hoax all over again. — It frightens me that, in this day and age, three demonstrably innocent men can be dragged into the public square in chains and be unjustly accused …
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ACLU:
ACLU Releases Files on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq — Americans Have a Right to Unfiltered Information About the Human Costs of War, ACLU Says — NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Open thread: Fireworks on the Factor with Michelle hosting? Update: Video added — The show's starting now; comment below if you're watching. I'm reliably informed that one guest lobs a sexist insult at Michelle — but a "good," progressive kind of sexist insult, not a retrograde conservative one.
James Kirchick / The New Republic:
GIULIANI GALLS AGAIN: — Rudy Giuliani, who recently said that he would have backed efforts to keep Terri Schiavo "alive," has now declared, before a swooning crowd at the Alabama state capitol, that he believes that the decision to fly the Confederate flag on state property ought be "left to the states."
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Political Environment Continues to Favor Democrats — By 50% to 35% margin, Americans want to see Democrats win in 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — Recent Gallup polling continues to show a favorable political environment for the Democratic Party. Democrats maintained a significant advantage …
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