- Florida gas lines easePOMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Simple tasks like buying gas, cooking food and even turning on the lights got a little easier Friday, with power restored to nearly half the homes and businesses that lost it during Hurricane Wilma.
- Iranians protest IsraelTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's ultraconservative president — spurning international outrage over his remarks about Israel — joined more than a million demonstrators who flooded the streets of the capital and other major cities Friday to back his call for the destruction of the Jewish state. Elsewhere, The Vatican on Friday denounced statements denying the right of Israel to exist, and Pope Benedict XVI condemned human trafficking and called for just treatment of women migrants.
- Sunnis join campaignBAGHDAD — A Sunni Arab coalition submitted its list of candidates for the December election Friday, signaling the intention of many Sunnis to join the political process despite their failure to block ratification of the new constitution.
- GDP grew at 3.8% in Q3WASHINGTON — The economy shook off headwinds from hurricanes Katrina and Rita to grow at a faster-than-expected 3.8 percent annual rate in the third quarter, a Commerce Department report showed Friday.
- Syria told to oust terroristsWASHINGTON — The U.S., United Nations, Russia, and the European Union issued a joint demand on Friday that Syria close the offices of Islamic Jihad in Damascus. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for a bombing in Hadera this week, in which five Israelis were killed.
- Rosa Parks to lie in CapitolWASHINGTON — Rosa Parks, the civil rights activist who passed away on Monday, will lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda this Sunday. She is the first woman and the second African-American to receive this honor, by a resolution passed in Congress today.
Friday, October 28, 2005
In Other News
As is usually the case on major news stories, we have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world. Here are some briefs of today's other news:
DOCUMENTS RELEASED
It's sad when the first place to find the documents about Scooter's indictment is on the Smoking Gun. Alas, such is life.
EDITED: DOCUMENTS RELEASED
It's sad when the first place to find the documents about Scooter's indictment is on the Smoking Gun. Alas, such is life.
UPDATE: DOJ RELEASES INDICTMENT
UPDATE: DOJ RELEASES INDICTMENT
Libby will Resign
ABC News is reporting that Lewis Libby's "boxes are packed" in his office. He will resign after he recieves his indictment this afternoon:
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief advisor I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will be indicted today in the CIA leak investigation, sources close to the case told ABC News. Top White House strategist Karl Rove will evade charges for now.
A source close to the White House told ABC News that Libby's "boxes are packed" and that he will resign from his post after the indictment.
Why "Situation" Needs a Censor
CNN's David Ensor on one of Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room" screens just stuck his tongue out, licked his hand and used it to mat down his hair. Nasty.
Information at Noon
Will there be news at noon about who is indicted? We're monitoring the US DOJ's website for prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Let's hope something interesting happens, or I just wasted my entire life this morning reviving this blog.
Sidenote: "Commander" May Get Even Worse
Aside from the leak investigation, ABC's "Commander in Chief" has hired "Saved by the Bell"'s Zack Morris to play a "slick media strategist."
As Fishbowl DC quips:
If Screech takes over as White House Press Secretary, we're through with CiC.
Then again, the beauty-level of the White House Press Corps would improve dramatically if there was, say, a CNN White House Correspondent Kelly Kopowski. (no offense John King).
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"Note" Notes
My Notes from ABC's The Note:
- Note predicts someone will resign by the end of the day: If you were the wagering type, you would bet that by the time the sun sets tonight over the Potomac River: Scooter Libby will have been indicted; Karl Rove's future will seem at once more secure and less so; the world will finally know what Patrick Fitzgerald's voice sounds like; a new or extended grand jury of an indeterminate life span will be a very big Gang of 500 preoccupation; discussions of the pros, cons, and possibilities of a plea deal will have filled hours and hours of cable news time and many blog column inches; a fresh batch of pieces about the nature of second-term slides will be sketched out and assigned; Trent Lott's prediction about how long it will have taken people to forget Harriet Miers will turn out to have been understated; and at least one office in Northwest Washington will have been cleaned out.
- We’ll know what’s going on by noon: An "information release" will take place at noon ET also at the Department of Justice.
- I want to see this video: More from Travers: "The President was definitely in a good mood — he came out and did a quick head fake (basketball player like move — very Allen Iverson head fake especially for someone with a bum knee) as if he would come talk to us and then went the other way and started smiling and sort of laughing. He then pretended not to hear us shouting (Reagan ear cup thing).
- Did Jon Karl call Karl Rove after I left?: ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports "Rove has been told that although he is not to be indicted today, the investigation continues. He is not out of the woods yet."
We're back!
The rparikh News & Advance is returning today--in blog form--in honor of the indictments that will come down today against Scooter Libby and other administration officials. Though most of America has no idea who Valerie Plame is and is more concerned with why a grown man is still called "Scooter", stay with the News & Advance throughout the day for the latest news.
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