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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 …
Michelle Malkin:
MEET THE NEW WH PRESS SEC'Y — ***update: Fox News confirms announcement coming Wednesday morning...more...Lucianne G.: "Tony's courage in the face of the horror he has endured for the last couple of years sets an example for us all. Take heart from it. I will miss doing his show every Monday.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Orders Probe Into Gas Price Cheating — President Bush has decided to temporarily halt deposits to the nation's strategic petroleum reserve to make more oil available for consumer needs and relieve pressure on pump prices, a senior administration official said Tuesday
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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."
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Brad Foss / Associated Press:
Oil, Gas Prices Drop on Bush Supply Move — Crude oil and gasoline futures fell Tuesday after President Bush gave the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to relax regional clean-fuel standards to attract more imports of gasoline to the United States and to make it easier for supplies to be moved from one state to another.
Pat Cleary / ShopFloor.org:
Gas Prices Outpaced Only by the Rhetoric — There's probably no worse place to be than between an angry mob and the object of their ire, but with that in mind, we wade into the debate on oil prices that is now gripping the country. In fact, it has become so compelling that it has distracted …
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Nedra Pickler / ABCNEWS:Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline
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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)
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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.
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Murray Waas / National Journal:
Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes? — When the CIA announced on Friday that it had fired an employee who the agency claims "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence" with a newspaper reporter, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas …
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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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Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Says It Will Share Nuclear Skills — TEHRAN, April 25—Iran's supreme leader said today in a meeting with the Sudanese president that Iran was ready to share its nuclear technology with other countries. — "Iran's nuclear capability is one example of various scientific capabilities in the country.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski / International Herald Tribune:
Do not attack Iran — WASHINGTON Iran's announcement that it has enriched a minute amount of uranium has unleashed urgent calls for a preventive U.S. air strike by the same sources that earlier urged war on Iraq. — If there is another terrorist attack in the United States …
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Online NewsHour:
A moral responsibility — JIM LEHRER: Do you agree in principle with that? And we'll get back to your point earlier about what avenues were open to her if she felt the way she did. — RAY MCGOVERN: I think, Jim, this was an exceptional case. — JIM LEHRER: An exceptional case?
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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 …
Ben Platt / MLB.com:
Monday's act heroic after 30 years — Outfielder recalls protecting country's honor from protesters — LOS ANGELES — It was 1976, a fun year for America. It was the country's bicentennial, the war in Vietnam had ended a year earlier and everyone really wanted to put all the problems from the 1960s …
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Paul Watson / Los Angeles Times:
Leaks of Military Files Resume — Despite security efforts, flash drives stolen from U.S. base in Afghanistan are still sold at bazaar. — BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Just days after U.S. troops were ordered to plug a security breach at their base here, the black market trade …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Announces Short-Term Steps to Ease Oil Prices — WASHINGTON, April 25 — President Bush today announced a series of short-term steps that he said might slightly ease energy prices, including a suspension of government purchases to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and investigations …
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