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7:45 AM ET, May 3, 2010

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msnbc.com:
May 2: Napolitano, Salazar, Allen, Clinton, Crist, roundtable  —  MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, a bomb in New York's Times Square forces the evacuation of thousands.  What more is known this morning?  —  And the latest on what damage the administration expects along the Gulf Coast from that massive oil spill.
Discussion: Meet the Facts
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Libtalkers Blame Gulf Oil Spill On Bush, While Praising Obama
CBS News:
Obama Vows to Do Whatever it Takes on Oil Spill
Discussion: New York Magazine
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Government closes fishing in oil spill areas for 10 days
Discussion: The Politico
Roman Polanski / La Règle du Jeu:
I can remain silent no longer!  —  Throughout my seven months since September 26, 2009, the date of my arrest at Zurich Airport, where I had landed with a view to receiving a lifetime award for my work from the representative of the Swiss Minister of Culture, I have refrained from making …
Discussion: L.A. NOW
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Polanski Breaks Silence on His Extradition From Switzerland  —  LOS ANGLES — Ending a long silence, Roman Polanski addressed his possible extradition to the United States over a 33-year-old sex-crime case with a statement that accused authorities here of “trying to serve me on a platter …
Discussion: YID With LID and TalkLeft
BBC:
Polanski: US wants me on platter  —  Film director Roman Polanski has broken his silence to decry the US for seeking his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old child sex case.  —  The Oscar-winner said prosecutors wanted him to return so they could serve him “on a platter to the media”.
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Pakistani Taliban claim credit for failed NYC Times Square car bombing  —  Image from an audiotape purportedly from Qari Hussain Mehsud, who takes credit for the failed car bombing in New York City.  Qari Hussain is a senior leader and master bomb maker in the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama vows ‘to see that justice is done’ in Times Square bomb  —  VENICE, La. — President Barack Obama said Sunday that his administration and law enforcement officials are investigating who is responsible for a bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square on Saturday night.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Adrian Carrasquillo / myfoxny.com:
Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility, Reports Claim
Derrick DePledge / Honolulu Advertiser:
Hawaii Poll: Djou leads Democratic rivals in congressional race  —  Poll shows concerns over Hanabusa, Case splitting vote are real  —  Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou has the advantage in the special election for Congress, a new Hawai'i Poll has found, giving Republicans the best opportunity …
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Revolving door: Hill to hedge funds  —  Wall Street has taken its lumps in Washington recently and Goldman Sachs has become everyone's whipping boy, but hedge funds and private equity firms have escaped relatively unscathed.  —  “There's no question they've gotten a free ride,” …
George Talbot / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
BP told to stop circulating settlement agreements with coastal Alabamians  —  Alabama Attorney General Troy King said tonight that he has told representatives of BP Plc. that they should stop circulating settlement agreements among coastal Alabamians.  —  The agreements, King said …
The Politico:
Ensign draws calls to resign  —  Sen. John Ensign is facing an increasingly uncertain future in the Senate, with a senior Democrat saying that the Nevada Republican should resign if allegations against him are true and other senators mulling the possibility of public hearings into his extramarital affair with a former staffer.
Discussion: The Page
The Politico:
Left sees chance to beef up bank bill  —  Sensing the political wind at their backs, activist groups on the left are planning a push this week to shape the Wall Street reform bill on the Senate floor — and they're hoping that fraud charges and a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs will give them the momentum they need.
National Review:
Crist: Lieberman Was Right, 'I'm Much Happier Now' [Robert Costa]  —  EXCLUSIVE — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist tells National Review Online that a conversation with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) helped to convince him to run for U.S. Senate as an independent.
Discussion: CNN
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Crist says he's open to supporting a Democrat for Senate majority leader
New York Times:
U.S. Is Pushing to Deter a Mideast Nuclear Race  —  The opening Monday of a monthlong United Nations conference to strengthen the main treaty meant to halt the spread of nuclear arms is likely to be dominated by Iran's president denouncing the West and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warning …
 
 
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Fox News:
Pittsburgh Marathon Course Altered by Bomb Scare
Dennis Prager / Real Clear Politics:
Why Left Talks About ‘White’ Tea Parties
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Michael Smith / Times of London:
Hotshot sniper in one-and-a-half mile double kill
Discussion: Don Surber and Weasel Zippers
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Scott Brown backs Hawaii, Pennsylvania Republicans in House special elections
Discussion: The Page
Bloomberg:
Greece Gets $146 Billion Rescue on EU, IMF Austerity Package
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Heidi Blake / Telegraph:
Christian preacher arrested for saying homosexuality is a sin
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Donald Sensing / Sense of Events:
Major flooding in middle Tennessee
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Group to censure physicians who play role in lethal injections
Discussion: The Caucus
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Alexander: Border security must precede path to citizenship for immigrants
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Steve Coll / Think Tank:
Terrorism  —  A few years ago, I was at an event with New York …
Discussion: Mediaite and ATTACKERMAN
 

 
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