There’s a fascinating inside-blogger-baseball conflict currently playing out between ThinkProgress blogger Lee Fang and Levi Russell, Director of Public Affairs for Koch Brothers-funded Americans For Prosperity. Russell accused Fang of, among other things, misrepresenting himself as a student to gain access to AFP’s Defending The American Dream conference last weekend. Fang has audio that proves otherwise.

An attorney for former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announced earlier today that his client’s health has “suddenly deteriorated” and he has found himself in a coma, according to several news wires. While Reuters reports that sources say he is stable despite comas occurring “occasionally,” they also report that the attorney himself noted that his information only extended so far as to know Mubarak’s health was weakened.

Punch www.cnnrussia.ru into your browser, and you’ll end up with a page featuring the familiar red CNN logo, Russian-language posts featuring CNN’s “iReport” graphic, and a front page photo of American Morning co-hosts Kiran Chetry and John Roberts. Wait. Didn’t Roberts leave for Fox News? Atlanta, we’ve got a problem.

The hits just keep on coming for affable paranoid mad scientist Julian Assange. He’s been accused of putting countless informants’ lives on the line by releasing the Afghan War Diaries. He’s been accused of an act fitting the Swedish legal definition of the crime of rape. And now, a former employee is accusing him of abusing his cat in a “battle for dominance.”

An AFP story Tuesday ran with the headline, “Gulf focus shifts, but where is all the oil?” The story essentially states that while clean-up efforts are in full swing after the well was finally capped, the crews are not finding very much oil in the Gulf; they’re actually wondering where it has gone. Well, Mother Jones has a response: it hasn’t gone anywhere. In fact, MoJo is criticizing the media for its reporting on the situation.

Olivier Knox has covered the White House for AFP since December 2000, before which he covered Al Gore’s failed run for the presidency and Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, which were surely not related. Knox, the proudly bilingual offspring of a French mother and American dad, enjoys pointing out that the AFP is the world’s oldest [...]

News reporters like to catch readers’ attention with a few zingy lines at the start of an article. Sometimes, these so-called “ledes” go horribly wrong. In Today’s Worst News Ledes, we highlight some of the biggest offenders: 3. “From Starpulse, “Celebrities We’d Like to See in a Sex Tape:”