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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama: Fire Imus — Obama First White House Contender to Call for Imus' Firing Over Racial Slur — In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show …
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Imus Now Off MSNBC — NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — MSNBC has announced the cable network will no longer carry the "Imus in the Morning" radio show. — NBC News released a statement Wednesday night that detailed Imus's dismissal. — "Effective immediately, MSNBC will no longer simulcast …
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Imus, MSNBC Cancels Simulcast, Nappy-Headed Hos, Rutgers, Media Matters — ONE DOWN — I-Man Loses TV, Libs Now Call Him "Conservative" — *** See main page and scroll down for more Imus coverage *** — With Don Imus now officially booted from MSNBC and word on the fate …
New York Times:
NBC News Drops Imus Show Over Racial Remark — NBC News dropped Don Imus yesterday, canceling his talk show on its MSNBC cable news channel a week after he made a racially disparaging remark about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. — The move came after several days …
Marcia Kramer / WCBS-TV:
Edwards On Imus Spat: 'I Believe In Forgiveness' — Presidential Candidate Stays Mum On Future Imus Appearances — (CBS) MAMARONECK, N.Y. Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards' spoke exclusively to CBS 2 on Wednesday morning about the Don Imus and Rutgers University controversy …
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Crystal Patterson / HillaryClinton.com:
Hillary: No To Imus — Hillary has spoken out about radio host Don Imus: "I've never wanted to go on his show and I certainly don't ever intend to go on his show, and I felt that way before his latest outrageous, hateful, hurtful comments." — UPDATE: As I posted in response to a comment below …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:MSNBC fires IMUS...
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:HOS AND BITCHES....Now that Don Imus has been universally condemned …
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Dinitia Smith / New York Times:
Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 — Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush aides' use of GOP e-mail probed — WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.
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Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:Officials' e-mail may be missing, White House says
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Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
Prosecutors Drop Charges in Duke Case — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party, saying the athletes were innocent victims of a "tragic rush to accuse" by an overreaching district attorney.
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A.G.'s Statement Dropping Duke Rape Case — Statement from North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper on the Duke University lacrosse rape case. — Good afternoon, everyone. — On Jan. 13 of this year, I accepted the request of the Durham district attorney to take over three Durham cases.
Josh White / Washington Post:
Gates Announces Longer Tours for Active-Duty Army Soldiers — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced this afternoon that all active-duty Army soldiers currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan could serve extended tours of up to 15 months in combat, meaning more than 100,000 troops …
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
McCain campaign to cut back on staff — WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record)'s troubled presidential campaign is eliminating some non-senior staff positions and cutting some consultants' contracts. — The Arizona senator's campaign characterized the moves as …
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New York Times:
In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
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zombietime:
Racist Literature Distributed in Berkeley — A study in hate, the left/right convergence, and media spin — During the first few days of April, 2007, racist literature was distributed in several Berkeley, California neighborhoods by members of an out-of-town white supremacist group.
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Google puts the spotlight on Darfur — News blog: next stop - deleting Bolivia? — Google Earth, the search engine's online mapping service, has updated its images of the Darfur region in Sudan in an attempt to draw attention to the plight of people living there.
Washington Post:
Biden Says Bush's Iraq Policy Doomed — Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D) said today that the Bush Administration's surge strategy in Iraq is doomed to fail and criticized Army General David Petraeus for offering what he called an overly optimistic assessment of the situation on the ground.
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