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Boeing 777 crashes while landing at SFO — Sponsored Links — SAN FRANCISCO — An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 arriving from a flight South Korea crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday morning, bursting into flames, authorities said.
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Jamapro / CBS San Francisco:
Korean Passenger Plane Crashes At SFO; 2 Dead, 181 Hospitalized — SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/KPIX 5) — An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed and burned upon arrival at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing two people and hospitalizing 181 others.
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NPR, PolicyMic, NEWS 9, ThinkProgress, CBS Los Angeles and Weasel Zippers
CNN:
Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco International Airport — Plane crash at San Francisco airport — (CNN) — An Asiana Airlines' Boeing 777 crashed and burned Saturday while landing at San Francisco International Airport, sending up a large plume of dark smoke from an aircraft that lost its tail and much of its roof.
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Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, KDVR.com, WTVR-TV, ViralRead, Mashable and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Passenger jet crash lands at San Francisco International Airport — An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. — There were 12 crew members, 290 passengers and one infant aboard the flight …
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Washington Post and Politico
Hamza Hendawi / bigstory.ap.org:
EGYPT: ELBARADEI'S APPOINTMENT PUT ON HOLD — You are here — Home » Mohamed Morsi » Egypt: ElBaradei's appointment put on hold — CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's new president moved to assert his authority and regain control of the streets Saturday even as his Islamist opponents declared …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Raw Story
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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
ElBaradei named Egyptian prime minister
ElBaradei named Egyptian prime minister
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WorldViews, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and American Power
Bloomberg:
Obama Call for Muslim Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt
Obama Call for Muslim Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt
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New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Reuters:
New leader starts work as Egypt counts dead
New leader starts work as Egypt counts dead
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War Is A Crime .org, americanthinker.com, NPR, RT, Business Insider and Al Jazeera English
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Elections Are Not Democracy
Elections Are Not Democracy
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The Hugh Hewitt Show, War Is A Crime .org and Wall Street Journal
Boston Herald:
Experts: John Kerry's credibility could sink with boat flap — By: — John F. Kerry's credibility took on more water on the second day of his Nantucket vacation flap, as the State Department backed off its initial denial the embattled secretary of state was yachting during the Egyptian military coup …
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The Hinterland Gazette, americanthinker.com, Jammie Wearing Fools, CBS News and The Other McCain
Mathieu Belanger / Reuters:
Runaway freight train explodes, levels center of Canada town — (Reuters) - A driverless freight train carrying tankers of crude oil derailed at high speed and exploded into a giant fireball in the middle of a small Canadian town early on Saturday, destroying dozens of buildings and leaving an unknown number of people feared missing.
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Taylor Marsh, Crooks and Liars, Toronto Star and InsideClimate News
Kirit Radia / ABC News:
Venezuela, Nicaragua Talk Asylum for Edward Snowden, but Could He Get There? — Venezuela and Nicaragua reportedly are prepared to throw Edward Snowden a lifeline — if he can get there. — The accused NSA leaker has been stuck in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremedevo International Airport …
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The Moderate Voice, Telegraph, FP Passport, PolicyMic, Taegan Goddard's … and BBC, more at Mediagazer »
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Brad Plumer / Wonkblog:
Can libertarian populism save the Republican Party? — The dream of the '90s is alive in the conservative movement. There's a new name being floated around as the solution to the current electoral woes of the GOP: Ross Perot. — Reform party presidential candidate Ross Perot gives a thumbs up to supporters in 1996 in Dallas.
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Hullabaloo and Prairie Weather
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Thom Hartmann: View from the left — Thom Hartmann may be the most popular progressive you've never heard of. — His nationally syndicated radio show draws 2.75 million listeners a week, he's a New York Times bestselling author and he hosts a nightly television show.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
BBC:
‘Dozens dead’ in school attack in Nigeria's Yobe state — At least 29 pupils and a teacher have been killed in a pre-dawn attack by suspected Islamists on a school in northeastern Nigeria, reports say. — Eyewitnesses said some of the victims were burned alive in the attack, in Mamudo town, Yobe state.
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Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette and NPR
Matthew Klein / Bloomberg:
Don't Get Too Excited About Today's Jobs Data — The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 195,000 jobs were added last month — significantly better than the consensus forecast of economists (165,000). Another 70,000 jobs were added in March and April thanks to revisions.
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Ed Driscoll, Tim Duy's Fed Watch, Economist's View and “The Lid”