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1:50 AM ET, April 26, 2006

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Melissa Drosjack / Fox News:
Sources: Tony Snow to Be Named White House Press Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — Tony Snow will be named new White House press secretary on Wednesday morning, FOX News has learned.  Snow is expected to be at the White House for the announcement.  He has been mulling the offer for the last several days.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Fox News's Snow on Verge of Being White House Press Secretary  —  Fox News commentator Tony Snow has decided to accept the White House press secretary's job after top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates …
John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days; 18 cents a gallon  —  Mulling proposal to give feds more power to target price gougers  —  Democrats are set to introduce a measure that would create a "federal gas tax holiday" by eliminating the federal tax on gas and diesel for sixty days, RAW STORY has learned.
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White House:
President Discusses Energy Policy  —  Washington, D.C.  —  Fact Sheet: President Bush's Four-Part Plan to Confront High Gasoline Prices  —  In Focus: Energy  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Bob, thanks for the introduction.  It's always good to be introduced by somebody who is referred to as the "Promoter in Chief."
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump.  He also halted for the summer the purchase of crude oil for the government's emergency reserve.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Announces Short-Term Steps to Ease Oil Prices
Washington Post:
Bush Delivers Speech on Renewable Fuel Sources
Discussion: This Modern World
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CIA Leak Update: Backtrack?  —  ***Mary McCarthy will reportedly be a guest on the John Batchelor Show tonight at 10 p.m. EST.  Listen live on the web at WABC-AM.  ***UPDATE: Show is on now, but McCarthy's name is no longer listed on Batchelor's website as being "featured" on tonight's program.
Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
"TROUBLES" BEHIND THE ZARQAWI VIDEO?  —  Zarqawi's new videotape comes one day after the Sinai's attacks and two days after Bin Laden's "state of the world Jihad" audiotape aired on al Jazeera.  Many questions are fusing: Why now and is there a connection between the three events?
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Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog:
Zarqawi Releases Video Tape (Updated)  —  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq, has released "the first [videotape] to contain a 'message'... U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News."  The tape is titled A Message to the People.  This is his first video without a mask …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
New Video of Abu Musab al Zarqawi (Images/Video)  —  The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, has appeared in a new 34 minute high-production value video released by the media arm of the terrorist umbrella organization known as The Mujahidin Shura Council.  The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video.
BBC:
'Zarqawi' shows face in new video
Discussion: Attytood and PrairiePundit
Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Jane Jacobs, Urban Activist, Is Dead at 89  —  Jane Jacobs, the writer and thinker who brought penetrating eyes and ingenious insight to the sidewalk ballet of her own Greenwich Village street and came up with a book that challenged and changed the way people view cities, died today in Toronto, where she lived.
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Sandra Martin / Globe and Mail:
Jane Jacobs dies
Discussion: Toronto Star and Jay Currie
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran Ready to Transfer Nuclear Know-How  —  Iran's supreme leader said Tuesday that the country is ready to transfer its nuclear technology to other countries.  Meanwhile, Tehran threatened to halt all cooperation with the U.N. atomic energy agency if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
How Would a Patriot Act? — the release  —  (updated below - and again)  —  The release date for my book — How Would a Patriot Act?  Defending American Values from a President Run Amok — is still a little more than two weeks away (May 15), but the book is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
The First Stab  —  I have had the privilege of reading Glenn …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Norwegianity
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Tuesday: My beloved rests in peace  —  My precious and beautiful wife, Allie, passed away during the night.  I found her lifeless body on the floor of the bathroom at 3:30 a.m. The paramedics did everything they could, but she was already gone.  We have no idea what happened.  She was young (41).
Bee Photos / Sacramento Bee:
Jury finds Hamid Hayat guilty  —  By Bee staff and wire reports  —  [Updated 5:33 p.m. Tuesday] Hamid Hayat, the 23-year-old Lodi man on trial for terrorist-related activities in Sacramento federal court, was found guilty Tuesday, just hours after a mistrial was declared in the related trial of his father …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
 
 
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Paul Watson / Los Angeles Times:
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Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
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