Google Plans To Use "Premium News Content," Namely the Washington Post and New York Times

April 30, 2009

Google plans to push content to readers without them looking for it: “Under this latest iteration of advanced search, users will be automatically served the kind of news that interests them just by calling up Google’s page.” Google plans to sell premium ads alongside premium content, driving more traffic to WaPo and NYT.

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Exaggerated Tax Credits Extremely Not Cool: IRS to Call You, Ask for Money Back

April 30, 2009

“Millions of Americans enjoying their small windfall from President Barack Obama’s ‘Making Work Pay’ tax credit are in for an unpleasant surprise next spring.” Turns out altered IRS tax withholding tables unintentionally translate to millions of taxpayers receiving hundreds of dollars apiece in tax credits, only to learn they’re going to have to repay it.

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Jon Stewart: It Really is Surprisingly Easy For Me to Just Call Harry Truman a War Criminal

April 30, 2009

In an interview with Cliff May, Jon Stewart is asked whether Harry Truman bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. “Stewart ruminates and then responds with an unequivocal ‘yes.’” He’s not alone in believing having moral questions about those bombings, but “war criminal”? Does this make George W. Bush Ghandi by comparison?

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Supreme Court Justice David Souter to Retire, NPR Reports

April 30, 2009

NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the court’s current term. The court has completed hearing oral arguments for the year and will be issuing rulings and opinions until the end of June.

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Scientists See Swine Flu Strain as "Relatively Mild," Less Deadly Than Average Winter

April 30, 2009

As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza — at least in its current form — isn’t shaping up to be as […]

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Chrysler Creditor Finds Himself Torn Over Bankruptcy

April 30, 2009

Geoffrey Gwin is wrestling with the knowledge that the retirement plans of some 80,000 Americans may rest in his hands. “I am in turmoil,” says Mr. Gwin, principal of the Group G Capital Partners LLC hedge funds in New York.

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New Jobless Claims Drop Unexpectedly to 631K

April 30, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of newly laid-off workers signing up for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, but the number of people continuing to draw jobless aid rose to nearly 6.3 million, setting a record high for the 13th straight week.

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Biden Puts Out Clarifying Statement After Suggesting People Avoid Planes, Trains

April 30, 2009

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would not recommend taking any commercial flight or riding in a subway car “at this point” because swine flu virus can spread “in confined places.” A little more than one hour later, Biden rushed out a statement backing off.

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David Ignatius Interviews NSC's James Jones

April 30, 2009

One of the puzzles of the Obama administration’s first few months was how the National Security Council would work under Gen. James Jones. He had the tricky challenge of managing an all-star “team of rivals” and working with a young president who was just 6 when Jones went off to Vietnam in 1967 as a […]

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Latest Blog Dream Job Offer: $10,000 a Month to Live at Winery

April 30, 2009

(04-28) 19:57 PDT — The dream job offer is this: Get paid $10,000 a month for six months to drink wine, learn and talk about wine, eat good food, live rent free in Healdsburg and play the occasional game of poker with a laid-back staff.

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