From the NY Times website, at 3:23 pm. The source is his family.

I will update as more info becomes available.

UPDATE: Russert was 58. According to the NY Post (via Huffington Post), he collapsed in NBC's Washington Bureau.

UPDATE: I am having limited internet access, and there is now a front-page post about this. Please unrecommend this diary and go to SusanG's here.

From the NY Times at 9:50am EDT:

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring, will resign today, some of his staff members said they have been told, though the precise timing remains unclear.

Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson would then be sworn in to replace him in Albany. But because even Mr. Spitzer’s most senior aides have been so surprised by revelations of their boss’s behavior, they said that they cannot be certain about a resignation until Mr. Spitzer makes it official.

...According to aides, the governor also contemplated the possibility of impeachment charges and the legal ramifications of not resigning. But he was faced with little support among Democrats in the Legislature, with whom he has had an often contentious relationship.

“An impeachment proceeding would force Democrats to either abandon him or defend him,” said one leading Democrat. “They would abandon him.”

I'm more of a lurker than a poster these days.

And this was already mentioned here.

Nonetheless, I think it bears repeating. Our long national nightmare is finally, finally drawing to a close.

Today is January 20, 2008, and it's 12:28pm as I write this.

One year from this moment we will have a new president!

Just a quick reminder. :)

Very short diary, and I will delete if this is already covered.

NY Times:

Just hours after President Bush said he will nominate Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York, as his next attorney general, Senate Democrats warned today that they might hold up Mr. Mukasey’s confirmation unless the White House turns over some documents they are seeking.

-snip-

But a quick confirmation will not happen unless the White House supplies documents that the Senate Judiciary Committee needs in connection with several investigations, the committee chairman, Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, said this afternoon.

“Our focus now, of course, would be on securing the relevant information the committee needs to proceed to schedule fair and thorough hearings,” Mr. Leahy said on the Senate floor, adding that “cooperation with the White House would be central” to determining the schedule of confirmation hearings.

Go Leahy!

A new poll was just released on the Washington Post website.

Under the headline Poll: Americans Find Bush Unyielding on Iraq--Majority Says Congress Should Have Final Say on Troop Withdrawal comes even more proof that Americans want Congress to do the right thing now.

Most Americans see President Bush as intransigent on Iraq and prefer that the Democratic-controlled Congress make decisions over a possible withdrawal of U.S. forces, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

As the president and Congress move toward a possible constitutional confrontation over the war, both receive negative marks from the public for their handling of the situation in Iraq. But by a large margin, Americans trust the Democrats rather than the president to find a solution to a conflict that remains enormously unpopular. And more than six in 10 in the new poll said Congress should have the final say on when to bring the troops home.

Actual poll results here.

Near where I work, at 42nd & 3rd.

(Another explosion rumored to have occurred in financial district, but no confirmation of this from media...however a few people on the street have heard this story).

Word is the uptown one was a transformer that blew due to flooding, but it looks much larger than that.

Not trying to start a panic, just giving news. We are being told to evacuate the area.

Will not be able to update, as I will not have internet until I get home. Just want people to know.

UPDATE (6:36pm) We have been told it was a transformer. Officials have anbnounced it as not terrorist related.

Hello fellow Kossacks:

I'm a long-time member of dKos (UID 14987). I don't remember exactly when I joined, but it was probably around the spring of '04. I used to post all the time, but my life got complicated, and now I'm more of a lurker. But I still visit the site just about every day, and I do my best to stay well-informed. Please bear with me and read what I have to say today; I'll try to be brief (not my strong suit, alas).

Kos' frontpage diary about Jim Webb today caught my eye because it pointed up a dynamic I've been aware of for a while.

Background:

I watched Webb's incredible Dem Response last night, and spoke to a few friends to rejoice about it.

"Webb is the Man!"

"First his exchange with Bush in December and now this!"

"I am so glad he put us over the top in the Senate!"

The reaction, amongst many of my friends, was more or less blank stares: "Who is this guy again?"

Are you kidding me? Who is Jim Webb? How could you not know him by now? Have you never been to dKos?

See below the fold for where I'm going with this....

Right off the bat, they could establish a Federal Voting Holiday; this is an idea that has been discussed before, but seems to get airplay only in the wake of a major Democatic defeat.

It's time to give it airplay in the wake of a major Democratic victory.

More after the jump.

That thread is now nearly 800 comments long. We're on to discussing Montana recount laws.

Let this be a new thread so people's computers can handle the pageloads.

If you're discussing the Montana results, please recommend this thread and switch to it.

Thanks, from a west coaster who stayed up all night to watch.

The Caucus has been swamped, swamped, by readers talking about this ad, which includes a lot of to-and-fro about Mr. Ford receiving money from the pornography industry (which he returned) and ends with a blond (white) woman coyly urging him to call her.

(Way to go, Kossacks; your voices were heard!)

Mr. Ford's opponent, Bob Corker, the Republican former mayor of Chattanooga, asked that the commercial be dropped late last week. But Mr. Mehlman insisted, even today, that because of campaign finance laws forbidding the coordination between national parties and independent expenditures, had no authority to get it off the airwaves.

More below the fold...

A Shiite militia that has been accused of a wave of sectarian attacks on Iraq's Sunni minority has seized control of the city of Amara in southeastern Iraq, attacking police stations and erecting checkpoints, witnesses in the city said today. At least 15 people have been killed, health officials said.

This is not today's first diary on this. Read on to see why I'm posting anyway.

The ballots had been scheduled to be destroyed next week.

More under the fold...

Before you flame me, read it closely (not that folks at dKos wouldn't). I think he's onto something.

On Unintended Consequences and the Federalist System of Government
Will March 6, 2006 go down in history as the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? Is this a good day or a bad day for those who believe that a woman should have the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion?

More below the fold...

The article is good because it specifies why outing Plame was a bigger deal than Bush apologists are making it out to be:

Go to this Free Republic presidential poll.

Click on John Kerry and piss 'em all off!

We're only 14,000 votes behind. If enough folks on dKos weigh in, I bet we can get Kerry even or ahead by Monday! True, they'll know it's non-members voting, but it'll still get their (pet) goat.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! (evil scientist laugh).

Did you vote? Good! Now back to your GOTVing!

President, OH
10/26/2004 
Kerry 50%       Bush 47%       MoE: 3.5%
statistical tie, but barely

President, PA
10/26/2004 
Kerry 53%       Bush 45%       MoE: 3.5%
Kerry's lead is outside the MoE here. Looks like the Clinton visit helped...

President, FL
10/25/2004 
Kerry 50%       Bush 48%       MoE: 3.5%

Also in polls released today, Bush has outside MoE leads in Missouri and Arkansas.

Update [2004-10-26 19:48:14 by zknower]:
Per comments below on MoE, I rechecked all polls. Since MoE applies to both candidates, then all five of these polls are statisitcal ties except PA, where Kerry's lead is greater than the MoE. So perhaps not as newsworthy, but I do like to see that PA lead!

I think it would be great if every Kossack who is volunteering in another state for election day would post what they're doing here.

1. This will give us all a little inspiration, as I imagine that there are hundreds of us doing something! I look forward to reading what everyone's up to; and

2. This might inspire shy folks who are sitting on the fence to make plans to go somewhere and pitch in!

And if you think this is worthwhile, please recommend; if not, troll me if you must...  :P

Update [2004-10-23 23:11:16 by zknower]:
Forgot to mention that I voted already!. And I'm happy to say that it took me all of 20 minutes in Downtown Brooklyn...which is, needless to say, VERY blue.

The GOP is hiring recruits and paying them $100 on election day to "challenge" the validity of voters' registrations.

Full article below the fold, as NYTimes requires a sign-in...
Update [2004-10-23 1:54:3 by zknower]:
Here's an article about the 35,000 challenged registrations from the Akron Beacon Journal.