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9:15 AM ET, May 3, 2010

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May 2: Napolitano, Salazar, Allen, Clinton, Crist, roundtable — MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, a bomb in New York's Times Square forces the evacuation of thousands. What more is known this morning? — And the latest on what damage the administration expects along the Gulf Coast from that massive oil spill.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Meet the Facts

Ben Raines / al.com:
Officials consider high-risk options to cap well in Gulf of Mexico …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Breaking News … and Associated Press

Pat G. / Think Progress:
Hume Acknowledges Oil Spill Disaster ‘Verifies’ The Concern Of Environmentalists

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Political Carnival, Associated Press, Wonk Room and Eschaton

Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Libtalkers Blame Gulf Oil Spill On Bush, While Praising Obama

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gun Toting Liberal

CNN:
Obama: ‘Relentless response’ to spill

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Political Carnival and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

msnbc.com:
Obama: Spill could be unprecedented disaster

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Impolitic, The Moderate Voice and New York Times

Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Obama navigates tricky task surrounding Gulf Coast oil spill

Discussion: Fox News, The Plum Line and Washington Monthly

CBS News:
Obama Vows to Do Whatever it Takes on Oil Spill

Discussion: New York Magazine

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
New Technique Holds Hope for Oil Spill Cleanup

Discussion: neo-neocon, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Prairie Weather and Wonk Room

Roman Polanski / La Règle du Jeu:

I can remain silent no longer! — Throughout my seven months since September 26, 2009, the date of my arrest at Zurich Airport, where I had landed with a view to receiving a lifetime award for my work from the representative of the Swiss Minister of Culture, I have refrained from making …

Discussion: L.A. NOW

Michael Cieply / New York Times:

Polanski Breaks Silence on His Extradition From Switzerland — LOS ANGLES — Ending a long silence, Roman Polanski addressed his possible extradition to the United States over a 33-year-old sex-crime case with a statement that accused authorities here of “trying to serve me on a platter …

Discussion: YID With LID and TalkLeft

BBC: Polanski: US wants me on platter

Bridget Johnson / The Hill:

Ahmadinejad likely to stir sanctions debate with address at U.N. nuke summit — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will stir the already stormy debate over sanctions on Iran's nuclear program when he pops in at the United Nations on Monday to address its nuclear nonproliferation conference.

Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers

John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:

Get Ready for a Nuclear Iran — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and others will surely follow suit. — Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran's nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address …

Discussion: Commentary, Washington Post and Israel Matzav

New York Times:
U.S. Is Pushing to Deter a Mideast Nuclear Race

Discussion: Washington Times, The Page and Israel Matzav

Derrick DePledge / Honolulu Advertiser:

Hawaii Poll: Djou leads Democratic rivals in congressional race — Poll shows concerns over Hanabusa, Case splitting vote are real — Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou has the advantage in the special election for Congress, a new Hawai'i Poll has found, giving Republicans the best opportunity …

Discussion: The Fix, Right Now, The Other McCain, Hotline On Call, AmSpecBlog, Ballot Box, The Atlantic Online, Swing State Project, The Hill and MyDD

The Note:

Sticky Politics: Unexpected Events Scramble Agenda, Again — Where do you find room to drive an agenda again? — Another week, another lesson in the unexpected for President Obama — with events outside (or, perhaps more dangerously, barely inside) his control driving the news.

Discussion: Townhall.com and Washington Post

Reuters:

Investigators hunt New York car bomb culprits — (Reuters) - Investigators combed through security video and other evidence on Monday in the hunt for suspects in a failed car bombing in New York's Times Square and officials expressed optimism that the culprits will be found.

Discussion: Global Guerrillas, Unqualified Offerings and Left Coast Rebel

Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama vows ‘to see that justice is done’ in Times Square bomb

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Steve Coll / Think Tank:
Terrorism — A few years ago, I was at an event with New York …

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, Associated Press and ATTACKERMAN

Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:

Web video shows Pakistani militant leader thought to be dead — ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A Pakistani militant leader who was thought to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike in January has appeared in a new Internet video, vowing attacks on American cities.

Discussion: Newsweek Blogs and New York Times

Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:

Exclusive: Tapes show Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive and threatens attacks in the US — Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, in a videotape dated April 4, 2010. — Two tapes were sent today to The Long War Journal by a group identifying itself …

Discussion: Guardian and The Jawa Report

Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Pakistani Taliban claim credit for failed NYC Times Square car bombing

Alia Wilson / Mercury News:

Riot breaks out in downtown Santa Cruz; windows broken on dozens of businesses, porch of cafe set on fire — SANTA CRUZ - A large group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker's and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, The Political Carnival, iOwnTheWorld.com, NewsBusters.org, Riehl World View, JammieWearingFool, Moe Lane, Don Surber, Wake up America and A Tangled Web

George Talbot / Breaking News from the Press-Register:

BP told to stop circulating settlement agreements with coastal Alabamians — Alabama Attorney General Troy King said tonight that he has told representatives of BP Plc. that they should stop circulating settlement agreements among coastal Alabamians. — The agreements, King said …

Discussion: NPR Topics, Alas, a blog and Brilliant at Breakfast

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

For Obama, a changed tone in presidential humor — Barack Obama, the Insult Comic President, was up to his old shtick Saturday night. — Breaking with presidential punch line tradition for the second consecutive year, Obama dropped zinger after zinger on his opponents and allies alike …

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin.com

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Obama Trounces Leno

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Top of the Ticket, Politics Daily, NY Daily News, The Policy Page, PopWatch and The Moderate Voice

Chris Frates / The Politico:

Revolving door: Hill to hedge funds — Wall Street has taken its lumps in Washington recently and Goldman Sachs has become everyone's whipping boy, but hedge funds and private equity firms have escaped relatively unscathed. — “There's no question they've gotten a free ride,” …

Discussion: Washington Wire and Clusterstock

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:

Scott Brown backs Hawaii, Pennsylvania Republicans in House special elections — Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) knows a little something about special elections. — After chalking up a stunning win in the race to replace the late senator Edward M. Kennedy (D) earlier this year …

Discussion: The Page