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9:55 AM ET, October 12, 2007

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Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
Gore, U.N. body win Nobel Peace Prize  —  OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
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Walter Gibbs / New York Times:
Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize  —  The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Al Gore, the former American vice president, and to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to alert the world to the threat of global warming.
Nobelprize.org:
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007  —  The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge …
Washington Post:
Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize  —  Former Vice President Al Gore Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, along with a United Nations panel that monitors climate change, for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to control it.
CNN:
Al Gore, climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize  —  (CNN) — Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming.  —  Gore said he was "deeply honored," adding that …
Eric Pooley / Time:
Gore Wins the Nobel.  But Will He Run?  —  For the past year, Al Gore has gone about his considerable business without showing much interest in running for president.  While picking up an Oscar and an Emmy, publishing a very smart book and playing host at a global concert for the planet, he's never done more than tease the idea.
MSNBC:
Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize  —  The committee also cited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming."
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Mondale to endorse Clinton
Discussion: MSNBC, TIME and The Influence Peddler
Bill Neikirk / The Swamp:
Al Gore wins the Nobel, campaign draft calling
Discussion: Dumb Ox Daily News
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sliming Graeme Frost  —  Two weeks ago, the Democratic response to President Bush's weekly radio address was delivered by a 12-year-old, Graeme Frost.  Graeme, who along with his sister received severe brain injuries in a 2004 car crash and continues to need physical therapy …
Garance Franke-Ruta / American Prospect:
NOT VOTING IS NOT THE SAME AS VOTING NO.  —  I read this Noam Scheiber item on The Plank with interest, as Noam's been on a bit of a roll lately with his campaign analysis, and earlier got the diagnosis of the problems with the Barack Obama and John Edwards campaign exactly right.
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New York Times:
Watchdog of C.I.A. Is Subject Of C.I.A. Inquiry  —  The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has ordered an unusual internal inquiry into the work of the agency's inspector general, whose aggressive investigations of the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation programs …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Relations Sour Between Shiites and Iraq Militia  —  In a number of Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, residents are beginning to turn away from the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia they once saw as their only protector against Sunni militants.  Now they resent it as a band of street thugs without ideology.
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
9 children killed in U.S. raid in Iraq
Washington Post:
Va. Poll Gives Mark Warner Wide Lead in Senate Race  —  Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner holds a 30-point lead over his two potential Republican rivals in next year's U.S. Senate race, boosting Democrats' chances of expanding their congressional majority and highlighting the party's ascendancy …
Discussion: MyDD and TIME
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Liberal Base Proves Trying to Democrats  —  Of the three most recognizable Barneys in America, one is a singing purple dinosaur, another is a prehistoric cartoon character and the third is a gay congressman from Massachusetts.  —  Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat …
Julian Borger / Guardian:
China joins UN censure of Burma  —  China turned against the Burmese government last night and supported a UN security council statement rebuking the military regime for its suppression of peaceful protests, and demanding the release of all political prisoners.
Discussion: FP Passport
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Rosalind Russell / The Independent:
Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta's repression of monks emerges
Discussion: Daimnation!
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
A December Primary in New Hampshire?  It's His Call.  —  Secretary of State Alone Will Decide, but He's Not Saying  —  CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire primary, crowded by other wannabe primaries and caucuses, may be shifted from January to an unprecedented date in early December.
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Sabrina Eaton / OPENERS:
Regula confirms: he's retiring  —  Longtime congressman Ralph Regula, whose years and power on the House Appropriations Committee made him a major player for northeast Ohio, confirmed to The Plain Dealer that he will not run for re-election next year.  —  More coverage
Discussion: Swing State Project and MyDD
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