Happy Earth Day, Hippies!

• Holy crap the CFO of Freddie Mac is dead, apparently of a suicide. [ Fox News ]

• Great Britain's top tax rate will rise to 50 percent, if Chancellor Alistair Darling's budget proposal goes through. [ BBC News ]

• Police believe the accused "Craigslist Killer" was the world's most violent fundraiser, robbing and killing women in order to get money to pay off gambling debts at Foxwoods. [ ABC News ]

• One BILLION people are expected to celebrate Earth Day today, by parading around with puppets or maybe just by taking the bus to work. [ CNN ]

• The men hastily arrested after a British security official was photographed holding documents related to their case were freed on the grounds of insufficient evidence. [ Reuters ]

• A "perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm" led top Bush administration officials to approve torture tactics without knowing their gruesome historical origins. [ New York Times ]