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Ken Belson / City Room:
Latest Updates on Hudson Jet Rescue — [Refresh this post for continuing live blog updates. Please also see complete coverage on NYTimes.com.] — A news conference with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Gov. David A. Paterson is wrapping up. Mayor Bloomberg said that it appeared …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
U.S. Airways Crash Rescue Picture: Citizen Journalism, Twitter At Work — Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posts the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone. Thirty-four minutes after Janis posted his photo, MSNBC interviewed him live on TV as a witness (see video below).
MSNBC:
‘Miracle on the Hudson’: All safe in jet crash — Officials say all of the 150 passengers and crew members are safe — Passengers await rescue by a ferry after a jet crash landed into the Hudson River on Thursday. — msnbc.com staff and news service reports
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CNN:
Airplane crash-lands into Hudson River; all aboard reported safe — NEW YORK (CNN) — A US Airways plane with more than 150 people aboard went down in the Hudson River on Thursday after taking off from LaGuardia Airport, and everyone aboard got off the plane alive, officials said.
Rick Santorum / Philly.com:
The Elephant in the Room: McCain may be Obama's secret weapon — A desire by both men to secure their places in history might forge an unlikely pairing. — I have been to New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington in recent weeks. In those cities, at least, you cannot watch the news …
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Daniel Schulman / MoJoBlog:
Palin to be No Show at Obama's Dinner for McCain — On the night before Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th President, his inaugural committee will host a series of dinners honoring public servants it deems champions of bipartisanship. To be feted are Vice President-elect Joe Biden …
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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Hamas minister Siam dies in IAF strike — The IDF stepped up pressure on Hamas on Thursday, killing Interior Minister Said Siam and pushing deep into Gaza City as defense officials predicted a cease-fire would begin soon. — Siam, the most senior Hamas political leader killed since Operation …
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Associated Press:
Holder to Senate: ‘Waterboarding is torture’ — Obama's nominee for attorney general vows break with controversial tactic — Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., shake hands just prior to Holder's confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Commitee.
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Holder breaks with Mukasey, says ‘waterboarding is torture.’
Holder breaks with Mukasey, says ‘waterboarding is torture.’
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Intelligence Court Rules Wiretapping Power Legal — WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order …
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
10 Take Aways From the Bush Years — There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush. Over the past eight years, I have interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 hours, spent hundreds of hours with his administration's key players …
Thomas Nagorski / The World Newser:
West Wing ‘Ghost Town’ — From long-time ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton: — President and Mrs. Bush fly to Camp David Friday afternoon for a final weekend in the rustic seclusion of “the Camp.” Over the next 36 hours, White House staffers will go through the behind …
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Tim Walker / Telegraph:
Will Smith ‘to play’ Barack Obama as US President in Hollywood movie
Will Smith ‘to play’ Barack Obama as US President in Hollywood movie
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Missing White House E-Mails Have Been Located, Justice Lawyer Says
Missing White House E-Mails Have Been Located, Justice Lawyer Says
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama To Hold Fiscal Responsibility Summit — President-elect Barack Obama visits the Post newsroom after a meeting with the editorial board and Washington Post Co. Chairman Don Graham, right. (Photo, The Washington Post) — President-elect Barack Obama will convene a “fiscal responsibility summit” …
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Marist Poll:
Filling Her Senate Seat: New Yorkers Favor Cuomo to Replace Clinton — This Marist Poll reports: — · New Yorkers Clamor for Cuomo...Kennedy Stagnates in Pool of Public Opinion: The tides of support have changed in the contest over who voters think should fill Hillary Clinton's vacant U.S. Senate seat.
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
O'Reilly Freaks Out Over the Thought of Holding Bush Admin Torturers Culpable — Bill O'Reilly came briefly unhinged last night, but managed to keep himself from having one of his infamous all-out temper tantrums. I thought for sure he was about to start shouting, “Do it live! F—k it!
Roger Simon / The Politico:
What if I didn't pay taxes? — Would it be OK if I stopped paying my taxes until Barack Obama names me to be his secretary of the treasury? — That is a deal I would like to get. That is the deal financial wizard Timothy Geithner got. — He didn't pay all of his federal taxes for years.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Of Judges, By Judges, For Judges — In November, 13,402,566 California voters expressed themselves for or against Proposition 8, which said that their state's Constitution should be amended to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. The voters, confident that they had a right …
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Byron York / The Corner:
Vince Foster, Fifteen Years Later — I was looking over a daily almanac and saw that Vincent Foster would have been 64 years old today. In the 1990s, I spent a lot of time covering his death, beginning with trip to Fort Marcy Park the morning after his body was discovered.
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Where Sweatshops Are a Dream — Before Barack Obama and his team act on their talk about “labor standards,” I'd like to offer them a tour of the vast garbage dump here in Phnom Penh. — This is a Dante-like vision of hell. It's a mountain of festering refuse, a half-hour hike across …
Achenblog:
Obama Visits Post Newsroom — Here's the President-elect walking directly toward me in the Post newsroom a few minutes ago, but tragically unfocused on his favorite blogger — clearly more interested in the colleague on my left, the fabulous Lonnae O'Neal Parker.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Vitter casts lone vote against Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.» — Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 to approve President-elect Obama's nomination of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Casting the sole “nay” vote was Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) …
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California Progress Report:
State of the People is Grim: More Budget Cuts Are Exactly the Wrong Prescription — As Governor Schwarzenegger prepares to report on the State of the State tomorrow, California's families today declared that “the State of the People” is increasingly grim with a record number of Californians having lost …
Claudia Rosett / Forbes:
Iran Wields The Gavel At The UNDP — What do Obama and Susan Rice propose to do about this? — Truly, I had plans to write this week about something other than the United Nations. But over at Turtle Bay, here they go again. — To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.'s flagship agency …
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Boston Globe:
Globe to cut up to 50 jobs in newsroom — The Boston Globe said today it will offer buy-outs to all newsroom employees by the end of the month in an effort to cut as many as 50 jobs. — In a memo to employees, Globe Editor Martin Baron said, “Our industry is facing unprecedented financial pressures …
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Room for Debate:
Torture's Blowback — Susan Crawford, the senior Pentagon official who dismissed charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Guantánamo detainee, said in a published report on Wednesday that she had concluded that he had been tortured by interrogators. “His treatment met the legal definition of torture.
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