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When Sen. Wellstone spoke against going to war in Iraq
Now: (via Reuters and the New York Times): A dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore into Shi’ite Muslim districts across Baghdad and south of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda are…
Google has released Street View images of some of the most famous mountains on Earth. Travel vicariously to Mt. Kilimanjaro: View Larger Map And Mt. Everest base camp: View Larger Map Roberto Baldwin has the story on Wired.com: One lucky engineer, who happens to be a passionate mountaineer, led the Google Mountain Enthusiast team during…
Apparently a lot of people think so. There were enough complaints to the Washington-based network this week that NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos responded to them this afternoon.
Death of the press conference?
This is -- or was -- a big anniversary in the history of political journalism. It was 100 years ago today that the first presidential news conference was held.
A possible showdown over abortion at the state Capitol, knives on airplane, the money you leave on the table at the IRS, and the eagle with the broken eggs in Saint Paul.