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Tsunami hits north-eastern Japan after massive quake — A massive earthquake has hit the north-east of Japan, triggering a tsunami that has caused extensive damage. — Japanese television showed cars, ships and even buildings being swept away by a vast wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake.
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Huge Quake and Tsunami Hit Japan — TOKYO — A huge earthquake struck Japan on Friday, churning up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along the northern part of the country and threatened coastal areas throughout the Pacific. — Walls of water whisked away houses …
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Massive quake, tsunami hit Japan — Editor's Note: Read live blogging of the Japan tsunami and earthquake. Are you there? Send your video, pictures to iReport. For more news visit CNN affiliates KHON and KHNL. — Tokyo (CNN) — The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan …
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Video of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan … Video of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan — Television networks across the world carried dramatic footage, some of it live, of the tsunami that hit northern Japan. — March 10: Updates on Libya's Revolt and Middle East Protests
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The Tsunami Warning continues in effect for the coastal areas of California and Oregon from Point Concepcion, California to the Oregon-Washington border. — The Tsunami Warning continues in effect for the coastal areas of Alaska from Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak) to Attu, Alaska.
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60 killed in major tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake
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Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Waves from Japan quake will hit California coast after 8 a.m.
Waves from Japan quake will hit California coast after 8 a.m.
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Los Angeles Times:
Hawaiians brace for 6-foot tsunami waves
Hawaiians brace for 6-foot tsunami waves
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msnbc.com:
Hundreds dead after massive quake slams Japan
Hundreds dead after massive quake slams Japan
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Michael Arnold / Wall Street Journal:
Strong Quake Shakes Japan
Strong Quake Shakes Japan
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Secretly recorded phone calls cast NPR fundraiser in unflattering light — An NPR fundraising executive said her organization would be willing to shield a would-be donor from a government audit by keeping the donor's name anonymous, according to a series of surreptitiously recorded phone …
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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
New Tape Increases Pressure for NPR
New Tape Increases Pressure for NPR
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NPR Emails Show CEO Refusing Donation from Phony O'Keefe Group
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
NPR hosts, journalists ‘appalled’ by Ron Schiller's comments
NPR hosts, journalists ‘appalled’ by Ron Schiller's comments
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dumbing Deficits Down — Like anyone who writes regularly about what passes for economic and fiscal debate in American politics, I've developed a strong tolerance for nonsense. After all, if I got upset every time powerful people were illogical and/or dishonest, I'd spend every waking hour in a state of raging despair.
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Ezra Klein:
Why does Mike Huckabee want Medicare to waste money? — What is comparative-effectiveness review? There are two answers to this question. The right answer, and Mike Huckabee's answer. — The right answer is that comparative-effectiveness review is a fancy term for studies …
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Bob Cusack / Ballot Box:
GOP woos ‘Morning Joe’ for Fla. Senate — Republicans in Washington are trying to recruit Joe Scarborough to run against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) next year. — Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told The Hill on Thursday that he has talked …
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Blacked up and in a bow tie: Eva Braun in party mood as rare set of pictures of Hitler's wife are unearthed — Previously unseen images from the fascinating private albums of Eva Braun have come to light. — They give us incredible retrospective access to Hitler's little-known companion and her life.
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Hitler's mistress: Extraordinary lost pictures of Eva Braun at play
Hitler's mistress: Extraordinary lost pictures of Eva Braun at play
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Aharding / CNN:
Bachmann increasingly serious about presidential bid — Washington (CNN) - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is increasingly serious about joining the wide-open race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. — And a growing number of conservative activists, legislators …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Palin: ‘We need much greater cuts’ than in GOP spending plan — The former Alaska governor urged Republicans to be “bold and strong” and have “steel spines” in the budget debate. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Thursday criticized congressional Republicans' spending plan as too tepid …
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Sen. Ron Johnson denounces ‘mob rule’ — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a former businessman and now a freshman senator, held a conference call Thursday afternoon with a small group of bloggers. For a freshman, he's entirely fluid on the issues and easily navigates between specifics and larger themes.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Congressional Approval Back Below 20% — Decline in approval rating in third month of new Congress similar to 1995, 2007 — PRINCETON, NJ — Congress' approval rating is down to 18% after being in the 20% range the first two months of the year, and is essentially back to where it was just after last November's midterm elections.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Et tu, Jack Lew? — Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - Social Security is the most solvable. — Back-of-an-envelope solvable: Raise the retirement age …
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What I Learned At The Treasury Department — I was at the Treasury Department yesterday afternoon for one of these double super-secret background briefings with the Secretary and other senior officials. What I learned: … So that's for your consideration. I dunno.
Fox News:
Sen. Graham Wants Intel Chief Gone After He Claims Russia, China Pose ‘Mortal’ Threat — A prominent Republican senator called on Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to resign Thursday after he said Russia and China pose the biggest “mortal threat” to the United States …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Escalates Pressure on Libya Amid Mixed Signals
U.S. Escalates Pressure on Libya Amid Mixed Signals
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Nina Shen Rastogi / Brow Beat:
David Simon, Creator of The Wire, Speaks on Felicia “Snoop” Pearson's Arrest — Earlier today, The Wire actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson was arrested as part of a large-scale drug raid in Baltimore and surrounding counties. Slate asked David Simon, creator and executive producer of The Wire …
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Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
More than 60 people, including ‘Snoop’ of ‘The Wire,’ arrested in drug raids
More than 60 people, including ‘Snoop’ of ‘The Wire,’ arrested in drug raids
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Public Opinion And Elite Signalling — Kevin Drum alludes to the fact that when we had dinner together a couple of years ago in California, he took the view that progressive bloggers understate the importance of public opinion and I said I thought he was wrong and if anything we overstate it.
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Ezra Klein, Mother Jones and The Monkey Cage
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Cops Raid Charlie's House After Alarming Call — UPDATE 10:42 PM Law enforcement sources tell us cops wrapped up their search and Charlie wasn't arrested. Charlie's lawyer, Mark Gross says police found one rifle — from the 1800s — and “a few bullets,” adding no other weapons were in the house.
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