17 April 2007: Morning

  • Questions, anger over the two-hour gap between the first shooting and Virginia Tech's first email to students. (Emails are here.)
  • Interactive map depicts times and locations of the killings, and when and how the university and police reacted.
  • A look at the students who may have been at the center of the tragedy.
  • International voices react to the massacre, focus on permissive U.S. gun laws.
  • Former Gonzales aide contradicts his ex-boss, says the attorney general discussed a lawyer's performance with Bush.
  • Gonzales's testimony has been pushed back due to yesterday's shootings.
  • Activity around North Korea's nuclear reactor has intelligence officials speculating the shutdown may be in progress.
  • The storms over New York dry up, leave behind scores of flooded basements and a mudslide in Staten Island.
  • The 2007 Pulitzer Prizes are announced; among the winners: Cormac McCarthy and the Wall Street Journal.
  • Thirty-four years after his death, JRR Tolkien's new novel hits the bookstores.
  • Cartoonist Brant Parker passes away eight days after his Wizard of Id collaborator, Johnny Hart.
  • U.S. coastal towns could face "weather-related extremes" from global warming; one environmentalist calls it "a recitation of biblical plagues."
  • Red meat raises breast cancer risk; bacon raises lung disease risk.
  • A man living in a home with a layer of animal feces between 2 and 3 inches deep and as many as 300 cats, both alive and dead, was arrested Friday.
  • Manhattan students, chaperoned by a teacher and two parents, go on a class trip to Cuba, miff city officials.