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PBS announces Jim Lehrer died this morning at age 85.

It took Hillary Clinton five days to issue this statement about Harvey Weinstein: "I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior." The statement made no mention of returning contributions from Weinstein."

Campaign Manager, Chief Strategist for McCain resign Tue Jul 10 2007 11:23:10 ET ARLINGTON, VA - Terry Nelson, Campaign Manager and John Weaver, Chief Strategist for John McCain 2008 issued the following statements: "This morning I informed Senator McCain that I would be resigning from his presidential campaign, effective immediately. It has been a tremendous honor to serve Senator McCain and work on his campaign. I believe John McCain is the most experienced and prepared candidate to represent the Republican Party and defeat the Democratic nominee next year." - Terry Nelson, Campaign Manager "As of today, I have resigned my...

At 6:55 EDT two fighters flew over at probaly 10,000 feet altitude, suburban Rockville MD, flying N-NW at high speed - sounded like on afterburner. Haven't seen that since shortly after 9/11.

United 93 By Kirk Honeycutt Bottom line: Unflinching account of the terror aboard the fourth hijacked plane on Sept. 11 provokes deep, disturbing emotions. Press notes for motion pictures are usually filled with dispensable, self-congratulatory puffery, but the one for the soul-searing film "United 93" contains this trenchant comment from its English writer-director, Paul Greengrass: Speaking of the 40 individuals aboard United Airlines Flight 93, the fourth hijacked plane on that day of infamy, Sept. 11, 2001, he notes that these were the only passengers and crew members on any of those ill-fated flights who knew about the other planes...

I looked to see if anyone else had posted this - I apologize if I missed it - about 8 minutes into ABC World News Tonight, Martha Radditz ended up her report on the missing explosives with words to this effect: Peter, late breaking information from IAEA is that when they last inspected the Al QAQaa facility in (January? March?) 2003, there were not 180 tons of high explosives, but only 3 tons. She did qualify that I think by stating a particular type of high explosive - either MX(?) or the other of the two types, but whatever it...

Flashing siren is all that's up right now

FLASH: Cancellation of British Airways flights is not in response to U.S. safety concerns, but rather is being prompted by refusal of British pilots to fly with armed marshals on board... Developing...

Downtown Street Closed Due to Suspicious Powder Updated: Monday, Dec. 22, 2003 - 4:54 PM WASHINGTON -- Parts of downtown D.C. are being blocked off Monday afternoon after a potential hazmat situation. D.C. Fire and EMS Spokesman Alan Etter says a powdery substance was found inside of a dumpster outside of the Washington Post building on 15th Street Northwest. Etter says the dumpster was dropped off around 6 a.m. Monday. A powdery substance, along with papers, were found inside. The areas on 15th street between M and L street are now blocked off. A hazmat team is now on the...

APRIL 16--While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network's web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures. Until earlier this afternoon, a CNN server housed mock-ups of web pages announcing the yet-to-happen deaths. The CNN pages, which were discovered by the intrepid folks at fark.com, were yanked about 20 minutes after being exposed (though TSG was able to grab a few of the pages for posterity's sake)....

Senior members of the Saudi royal family paid at least $200m to Osama Bin Laden's terror group and the Taliban in exchange for an agreement that his forces would not attack targets in Saudi Arabia, according to court documents... MORE... SAUDIS PAID BIN LADEN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS

SEPTEMBER 11 AND 1998 EMBASSY BOMBINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF CLINTON ADMINISTRATION HAD ACCEPTED SUDAN’S OFFERS TO SHARE ITS INTELLIGENCE FILES ON OSAMA BIN LADEN AND AL-QAEDA NETWORK, VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE IS PLANNING TO REPORT... DEVELOPING... MAG: SUDAN TRIED TO GIVE CLINTON ADMIN FILES ON BIN LADEN

FLASH: Broward County: With all precincts and absentees recounted, plus 1,550 questionable ballots reviewed, Gore has net gain of 472 votes... less than 300 questionable ballots left to be counted...

About five minutes into Friday night's monologue Jay Leno asked (paraphrasing) Did you hear the news about Hillary Clinton in upstate New York, while campaigning she stopped at a diner for breakfast and the meal was on the house. Hillary, however, stiffed the waitress and didn't leave her a tip. That's funny, it's usually Bill who is stiffing the waitress. [laughter] Then he went on to the next, non political joke.