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9:20 PM ET, November 26, 2008

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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Death Toll Rising in India in Coordinated Attacks  —  NEW DELHI — Coordinated terror attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, India's commercial capital, Wednesday evening, targeting at least two five-star hotels, the city's largest commuter train station, a historic movie theater and a hospital.
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Sky News:
Hostages Held At Mumbai Hotels  —  Terrorists have conducted at least seven coordinated attacks in Mumbai's tourist areas, killing scores and taking ‘many hostages’.  —  Gunmen have targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks across India's financial capital.
Times of India:
Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 900 injured  —  27 Nov 2008, 0224 hrs IST, TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES  —  Text:  —  Mumbai: In one of the most violent terror attacks on Indian soil, Mumbai came under an unprecedented night attack as terrorists used heavy machine guns …
Gateway Pundit:
Mumbai Under Terror Attack!... At least 80 Dead— Hostages Taken!  (Live Firing Video!)  —  TERRORISTS HAVE TAKEN HOSTAGES AT THE TAJ MAHAL HOTEL  —  An ATS team has arrived at the Taj, where fresh blasts have been reported.  —  There was at least two explosions in the dome of the Taj.
Alice Miles / Times of London:
Foreigners targeted in co-ordinated Bombay attacks  —  Gunmen stalked a hotel in Bombay looking for British and US passport holders during co-ordinated attacks across the city that have left at least 80 dead and 250 injured.  —  A series of shootings and bomb blasts at luxury hotels and bars …
Michael Evans / Times of London:   Intelligence chiefs were expecting Al-Qaeda spectacular
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Is Pakistani Intelligence Involved in the Terrorist Attacks in India?
Discussion: Power Line and Associated Press
Times of India:
Seven foreigners among 200 taken hostage at Mumbai's Taj
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
CNN:
Gunmen attack targets in Indian city
Discussion: TechCrunch and Balloon Juice
Times of India:
Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 250 injured
CNN:
Franken Loses Crucial Ruling in Minnesota Recount  —  (CNN) — Minnesota's Canvassing Board voted unanimously to reject Franken's request to include thousands of absentee ballots that are not included in the recount in the Minnesota senate race between the Democratic challenger and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman.
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Dave Orrick / The Politico:
Franken loses absentee ballot appeal  —  The state Canvassing Board today rejected Democrat Al Franken's request to count absentee ballots his campaign says were wrongly rejected by poll judges.  —  Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's team had argued that the board lacks the power to include those ballots in the recount.
Scott / Power Line:
MINNESOTA SENATE RECOUNT, UPDATE IX
Discussion: Where Are My Keys?
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Faced With Setback, Franken Camp Vows To Fight On
Paul Walsh / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Canvassing Board meets today about rejected absentee ballots
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Irrelevant House Republicans  —  Elizabeth Drew has an interesting piece on “The Truth About the Election” but I wanted to comment on this one point: … The thing of it is that it doesn't really matter what Eric Cantor thinks.  The House Republicans are, in effect, irrelevant.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
A NEW DAY FOR TURKEY.  —  Like Matt, I have strong sectarian feelings against turkey.  But unlike him, I'm a political realist, I believe in mitigation, not abolition.  So as long as turkey is going to sit like a colossus atop the Thanksgiving meal, we may as well figure out a way to reduce its suck factor.
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Matthew Yglesias / The Internet Food Association:
Truth to Power: Turkey Sucks
Discussion: Emptywheel
Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
OBAMA: CHANGE COMES FROM ME  —  From NBC's Athena Jones  —  CHICAGO — In response to criticism that he is departing from his promise to bring change to Washington because several members of his economic team were Beltway insiders, Barack Obama said today that his team would combine experience …
Discussion: www.redstate.com and rubber hose
Joe Klein / Time:
Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck  —  We have “only one President at a time,” Barack Obama said in his debut press conference as President-elect.  Normally, that would be a safe assumption — but we're learning not to assume anything as the charcoal-dreary economic winter approaches.
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Paul Volpe / Capitol Briefing:
Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-Conn.) support of John McCain's presidential campaign was well known.  His contribution to Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) was not.  (By Melina Mara — The Washington Post Photo)  —  By Paul Kane
Richard Esposito / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: NY Rail Plot Details Based on ‘Reliable’ FBI Source  —  New Information in Last 48 Hours Led to Public Warning  —  Uniformed police officers have flooded New York City's Penn Station, home to the Long Island Rail Road, following a warning from the FBI of a “plausible but unsubstantiated” …
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Voters Fail the Test  —  WASHINGTON — So much for the wisdom of The People.  —  A new report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) on the nation's civic literacy finds that most Americans are too ignorant to vote.  —  Out of 2,500 American quiz-takers, including college students …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Paul Krugman:
About that advisory board  —  Too big to fail?  —  A thought I've had: there have been some complaints from movement progressives about the centrism/orthodoxy of Obama's economics appointments.  To some extent this was unavoidable, I think: someone like the Treasury secretary …
Discussion: TPM Election Central
Lukas I. Alpert / New York Post:
LET SANTA LIGHT THE MENORAH  —  WHITE HOUSE IN HANUKKAH TREE GAFFE  —  Merry Hanukkah from the White House!  —  The president and the first lady invited leaders of America's Jewish community for a Hanukkah reception at the White House next month - but raised more than a few eyebrows …
Discussion: DCist, Gawker and Think Progress
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Lori Drew Not Guilty of Felonies in Landmark Cyberbullying Trial  —  LOS ANGELES — Lori Drew, the 49-year-old woman charged in the first federal cyberbullying case, was cleared of felony computer-hacking charges by a jury Wednesday morning, but convicted of three misdemeanors.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Strategic Presidency  —  I've now done a kind of scan-read of Team of Rivals à la a person preparing for a college final.  And I have to say that, like Daniel Drezner and most others I've spoken to, what Obama's doing doesn't actually seem to follow that template in anything other than a very superficial sense.
Discussion: Think Progress and Swampland
 
 
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