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8:25 AM ET, December 12, 2008

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Associated Press:
$14B auto bailout dies in Senate  —  WASHINGTON - A bailout-weary Congress killed a $14 billion package to aid struggling U.S. automakers Thursday night after a partisan dispute over union wage cuts derailed a last-ditch effort to revive the emergency aid before year's end.
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New York Times:
Auto Suppliers Share Anxiety Over a Bailout  —  DETROIT — With Congress failing to agree on a bailout for Detroit, the odds that General Motors and Chrysler will be insolvent by year's end are growing rapidly.  —  The companies have been warning that they would run out of money for some time …
CNN:   Auto bailout bill dies in Senate
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Auto Bailout Talks Collapse as Senate Deadlocks Over Wages
Sarah Binder / The Monkey Cage:   Car Talk  —  Gentlemen [sic], start your engines!
Chicago Sun Times:
Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel ducks reporters' questions  —  President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, refused to take questions from reporters this morning about whether he was the Obama “advisor” named in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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New York Times:
Obama to Air Any Staff Talks on Senate Seat  —  CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama pledged Thursday to disclose any interaction between his transition team and the office of besieged Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, while declaring again that he and his staff had no involvement …
The Politico:
Obama damage control  —  He was elected president on a promise of “transparency” but barely five weeks later, Barack Obama is scrambling to meet his first big test on openness.  —  Obama's campaign lawyer Bob Bauer is taking a leading role in conducting what one top aide described as …
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
The Obama Press Conference
Discussion: Althouse, NY Daily News and Spin Cycle
Bloomberg:
Madoff Charged in $50 Billion Fraud at Advisory Firm  —  A A A  —  Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Bernard Madoff, founder and president of a New York firm that invested funds for wealthy individuals, hedge funds and other institutions, was charged with operating what he told employees …
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New York Times:
Prominent Trader Accused of Defrauding Clients  —  On Wall Street, his name is legendary.  With money he had made as a lifeguard on the beaches of Long Island, he built a trading powerhouse that had prospered for more than four decades.  At age 70, he had become an influential spokesman …
Discussion: The RBC and Balloon Juice
Reuters:
Former Nasdaq chair arrested over alleged £33 billion fraud  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff, a quiet force on Wall Street for decades, was arrested and charged on Thursday with allegedly running a $50 billion (33 billion pounds) “Ponzi scheme” in what may rank among the biggest fraud cases ever.
Discussion: Silent Running and Corrente
New York Times:
Report Blames Rumsfeld for Detainee Abuses  —  WASHINGTON — A report released Thursday by leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee said top Bush administration officials, including Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, bore major responsibility for the abuses committed …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain pollster: Wright wouldn't have worked  —  John McCain's top pollster, Bill McInturff, said this evening that attacking Barack Obama over his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright would not have helped McCain's campaign and could have destroyed his presidency, had he been elected.
Discussion: marbury
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Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
From Obama Camp, a What If?  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. …
Discussion: TIME.com
CNN:
Powell: GOP ‘polarization’ backfired in election  —  (CNN) — The Republican party must stop “shouting at the world” and start listening to minority groups if it is to win elections in the 21st century, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday.  —  In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria …
TwinCities.com:
In Senate recount, wrongly rejected votes seem more numerous than first thought  —  At least 358 Minnesotans did everything right on their absentee ballots — they sent them in on time, signed them where they should have and were properly registered — but their votes were not counted.
Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. keeps silent as Afghan ally removes war crime evidence  —  DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan — Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al Qaida members who'd surrendered to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
 
 
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BBC:
UK says Merkel backs fiscal boost
Discussion: The RBC and Biased BBC
Tom Coghlan / Times of London:
Taleban tax: allied supply convoys pay their enemies for safe passage
Discussion: Don Surber and FP Passport
Elizabeth Kolbert In / New Yorker:
NOTE TO DETROIT: CONSIDER THE REFRIGERATOR
Discussion: Kevin Drum and Talking Points Memo
BBC:
Sarkozy comments spark Iran row
Discussion: The Jawa Report and QandO
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Rep. Barney Frank / The Huffington Post:
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Does It Again
Kate Pickert / Time:
Glenn Beck  —  Glenn Beck is not known for his compassion.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
SteveK / TVNewser:
Breaking: “Hannity” To Premiere January 12
Wall Street Journal:
Blagojevich Left Legal Bills Unpaid
Discussion: Law Blog and Salon
 

 
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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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