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4:50 AM ET, April 24, 2007

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Connie Skipitares / Mercury News:
Author David Halberstam killed in crash near Dumbarton Bridge  —  Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author David Halberstam was killed in a three-car accident this morning in Menlo Park near the Dumbarton Bridge, the San Mateo County Coroner's Office announced.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Author David Halberstam killed in Menlo Park crash  —  (04-23) 19:24 PDT MENLO PARK — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam was killed today doing what he had done for more than four decades: chasing down a great story.  —  Halberstam, 73, died in a car wreck just a few miles away …
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
David Halberstam, 73, War Reporter and Author, Is Killed in a Car Crash  —  David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and tireless author of books on topics as varied as America's military failings in Vietnam, the deaths of firefighters at the World Trade Center and the high-pressure world …
Lisa Leff / Associated Press:   Author David Halberstam dies in crash
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
(updated below - updated again)  —  I've had book-related commitments today which ended up being more consuming than I anticipated, so I may be unable to post much today.  I did, however, want to point quickly to a few noteworthy items.  —  I'm not one who subscribes to the view …
Discussion: Wonkette
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Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
Iraq Blast Kills 9 GIs, Injures 20 At Outpost  —  Suicide Attack in Diyala Among Deadliest of War  —  A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged truck into a U.S. military outpost near Baqubah on Monday, killing nine soldiers and wounding 20 in one of the deadliest single ground attacks …
Discussion: TalkLeft and First Draft
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
There is no al Qaeda - Iraq Connection
Discussion: Washington Post
my.barackobama.com:
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs  —  Good morning.  We all know that these are not the best of times for America's reputation in the world.  We know what the war in Iraq has cost us in lives and treasure, in influence and respect.
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
OBAMA'S SPEECH....Barack Obama gave his big foreign policy speech today.  "There are five ways America will begin to lead again when I'm President," he said.  Here they are:  — Get out of Iraq (but responsibly!)  — Increase the size of the Army and Marines by 92,000 soldiers and teach 'em some Arabic.
Discussion: The RBC
Joe Klein / TIME: Swampland:
RE: Kos  —  In my column this week I reported that Kos had bashed Barack Obama for his position on Iraq war funding.  Obama said he was opposed to adding a withdrawal timetable, or deadline, to the next funding bill the Democrats send Bush after he vetoes the current legislation.
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Marilyn Berger / New York Times:
Boris Yeltsin, Russia's First Post-Soviet Leader, Is Dead  —  Boris N. Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became the first freely elected leader of Russia and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Communist Party …
BBC:
Crow calls for limit on loo paper  —  Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.  —  Crow has suggested using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required".
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Huckabee calls Gonzales a distraction  —  WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee on Monday called Alberto Gonzales a "major distraction" for President Bush and the GOP, and suggested the attorney general voluntarily step down.  —  The former Arkansas governor also left open …
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:   McNulty to be interviewed by Senate Judiciary Committee
Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Bush Sr.: 'Bush fatigue' may be setting in  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former President George Bush told CNN's Larry King Monday that the electorate may be experiencing "Bush fatigue."  —  And it may be the reason his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is sitting out the 2008 presidential election, the 41st president said.
Watertiger / Dependable Renegade:
The Manhattan Project.  —  Carmela returns:  —  Meet Ann Altmouse:  —  Special thanks to dan at A Blog Named Sue for his camera and editing.  You rule, Dan.
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Thers / Whiskey Fire:   Altmouse Files  —  Ann Altmouse has asked me to post her first vlog …
Henry M. Paulson, Jr / ssa.gov:
A MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC:  —  Each year the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds report on the current and projected financial status of the two programs.  This message summarizes our 2007 Annual Reports.  —  The financial condition of the Social Security …
Michael McCarthy / The Independent:
An island made by global warming  —  The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn.  A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Lance Morrow / New York Times:
Be My Neighbor  —  Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim (in "Slaughterhouse-Five") had a famous dream in which the film of time ran backward: bombs re-coalesced, sucking their exploding fire back into dark capsules that flew upward into the planes' bomb bays, while German fighters, as if by magic …
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Catallarchy
Times of London:
Al-Qaeda 'planning big British attack'  —  AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first "large-scale" terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.  —  Spy chiefs warn that one operative …
 
 
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
The Birth of the 'Breck Girl' Story Line
WSLS.com:
'He was Creeping me Out'
Discussion: Hot Air and Captain's Quarters
Michael Scherer / Salon:
Down and dirty with the GOP down South
Elizabeth Benjamin / NY Daily News:
What's the deal, Mike?
Tim Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama and his Rezko ties
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
George Soros rules the world! Bill O'Reilly loses it...
Discussion: Hot Air and Oliver Willis
Alisa Tang / Associated Press:
Soldier: Honor troops like Va. Tech dead
 Earlier Items: 
Robert / Jihad Watch:
A conversation with Imam Fouad ElBayly
Discussion: Hot Air and Riehl World View
Ariane deVogue / Legalities:
"Faith-Based Justices"
Anita Kumar / St. Petersburg Times:
FBI asks Tom Feeney about trip with Abramoff
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG and MyDD
Andrew Koppelman / Balkinization:
Don't do anything you're going to regret later
Max Boot / Weekly Standard:
Can Petraeus Pull It Off?
Discussion: Redstate and The Corner
Sam Rosenfeld / TAPPED:
NO MURROW.  Over at the Politico, Roger Simon takes us …
USA Today:
DNA to clear 200th person
Discussion: POLITOPICS
Reuters:
Carl Bernstein writes biography of Hillary Clinton
 

 
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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”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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