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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
More European Papers Print Cartoons of Muhammad, Fueling Dispute With Muslims — COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1 — Broadening a debate that has set Europe against the Islamic world, several European newspapers on Wednesday reprinted cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an unflattering light …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lobbying Changes Divide House GOP — Just two weeks after House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledged to pass far-reaching changes to the rules of lobbying on Capitol Hill, House Republican members pushed back hard against those proposals yesterday, charging that their leaders are overreacting to a growing corruption scandal.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Budget Cuts Pass By a Slim Margin — Poor, Elderly and Students to Feel Pinch — The House yesterday narrowly approved a contentious budget-cutting package that would save nearly $40 billion over five years by imposing substantial changes on programs including Medicaid, welfare, child support and student lending.
New York Times:
House Approves Budget Cutbacks of $39.5 Billion — WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — House Republicans eked out a victory on a $39.5 billion budget-cutting package on Wednesday, with a handful of skittish Republicans switching their votes at the last minute in opposition to reductions in spending on health and education programs.
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
The Capitol's Tempest in a T-Shirt — Chief Apologizes for Ejections at State of Union — Two T-shirts — one black, the other heather gray — spotted in the House gallery the night of the president's State of the Union speech caused a major ruckus on Capitol Hill.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
When does the "self-correcting" blogosphere start to self-correct? — (updated below - twice) — Before the Capitol Police acknowledged yesterday that there was no legal basis for removing, let alone arresting, Cindy Sheehan — to the contrary, they admitted that they "screwed up" because …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Senate Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying — WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush's domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance …
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New York Times:
The March of the Straw Soldiers — President Bush is not giving up the battle over domestic spying. He's fighting it with an army of straw men and a fleet of red herrings. — In his State of the Union address and in a follow-up speech in Nashville yesterday, Mr. Bush threw out a dizzying array …
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Washington Post:
Republicans Were Masters In the Race to Paint Alito — Democrats' Portrayal Failed to Sway the Public — On the night of Sunday, Oct. 30, the White House team charged with getting Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s nomination through the Senate got a first look at the nominee.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Court Remade in the Reagan Era's Image — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. being sworn in Wednesday at the White House by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., right. Watching were President Bush, Martha-Ann Alito and the Alitos' children, Phil and Laura. — WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Joint Chiefs Fire At Toles Cartoon On Strained Army — In a protest with an unusual number of high-level signatures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each of its five members have fired off a letter assailing a Washington Post cartoon as "beyond tasteless."
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Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Evangelical Filmmakers Criticized for Hiring Gay Actor — WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Christian ministers were enthusiastic at the early private screenings of "End of the Spear," made by Every Tribe Entertainment, an evangelical film company. But days before the film's premiere …
CNN:
Jimmy Carter: Give Hamas a chance — Former president says U.S. should not cut off aid to Palestinians — (CNN) — Hamas deserves to be recognized by the international community, and despite the group's militant history, there is a chance the soon-to-be Palestinian leaders could turn away from violence …
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CBS News:
Nuke Tests In Iran? — (CBS/AP) Experiments with high explosives, possibly linked to future nuclear weapons tests, were carried out as recently as 2003 in Iran, sources tell CBS News. — International Atomic Energy Agency analysts said they suspect the experiments took place at a huge military complex south of Tehran.
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
'St. Jack' and the Bullies in the Pulpit — John Danforth Says It's Time the GOP Center Took On The Christian Right — Jack Danforth wishes the Republican right would step down from its pulpit. Instead, he sees a constant flow of religion into national politics.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Search engines challenged on 'theft' — A group of newspaper, magazine and book publishers is accusing Google and other aggregators of online news stories of unfairly exploiting their content. They are demanding compensation from search engines. — Gavin O'Reilly, the president …
MSNBC:
Scoring SCOTUS — Alito and the Democrats — Judge Sam Alito was confirmed today, as expected. The final vote was 58 to 42. The voting list is here. — This past weekend saw a unified effort in the blogosphere to engage readers in a call to action.
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