News Bits: First Sentence Edition
- CNN: "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich reportedly is planning to return to work Wednesday, a day after his indictment on federal corruption charges."
- Politico: "Even before Barack Obama won the presidential election, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was plotting how he could make money off it or steal political leverage from it."
- NPR: "Congressional Democrats and the Bush administration have agreed in principle to a $15 billion loan package for troubled automakers"
- Guardian: "Britain's six-year occupation of south Iraq will begin drawing to a close in March, and the last troops will leave Basra by June"
- Surviving Tuskegee airmen invited to Obama inauguration.
- Salon: "Last week, we and many, many, many others took one look at the cover of the New York Times magazine and came up with the same conclusion: Someone must really have it in for longtime style reporter Alex Kuczynski."
- T.R. Knight: the new David Caruso?
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