Primary Election. Delivering a powerful message of discontent, voters Tuesday swept out veteran Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, nominated a "tea party" movement founder for a Senate seat in Kentucky, and forced Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff for the Democratic nomination in Arkansas.
Thailand. Buildings across the Thai capital, Bangkok, have been set ablaze by red shirt protesters after the military stormed a protest camp in the center of the city.
Israel-Palestine. U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed possible outlines of a future Palestinian state on Wednesday.
Quote of the Day. “The 8 p.m. hour in cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might co-exist in that line-up is simply impossible for me. It is not who I am or who I want to be.” Prime-time anchor Campbell Brown explaining why she’s leaving CNN. (New York Times media blog)
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