Takeouts: Olympics looks to skeleton event, IRS building hit in Austin, Texas
AUSTIN PLANE CRASH: Joseph Andrew Stack allegedly flew his small plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, after confessing on his website in a rambling screed against the U.S. government. Ian Crawford, news editor for KUT in Austin, Tex., brings us the latest.
OLYMPICS: We preview a sport that many people didn’t know existed: the Skeleton. New York Times Olympics editor Jason Stallman explains.
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