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Dubai Port Company to Divest Itself of American Holdings — The United Arab Emirates company that was attempting to take over management operations at six U.S. ports announced today that it will divest itself of all American interests. — The announcement appears to head off a major confrontation …
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Ports deal opens rift between Bush, House GOP — Committee votes 62-2 to block approval of UAE takeover — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The White House faced a major rupture with House Republicans on Thursday after a House committee overwhelmingly voted to block a deal that would allow …
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Michelle Malkin:
BREAKING PORT NEWS: DUBAI YIELDS — ***scroll for updates...230pm EST Dem Senators Schumer, Clinton, Reid scrambling to organize press conference...248pm EST. Harry Reid looks irked at being outmaneuvered: "We want an up-and-down vote...the devil is in the details."
Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
DP World and U.S. Trade: A Zero-Sum Game — DP World's decision yesterday to transfer a handful of American port terminals, rather than chilling interest in investing in the United States, may actually have made it safer for foreigners by relieving some of the political pressure that was building up against them.
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Online NewsHour:
Transfering U.S. operations to a U.S. company — MARGARET WARNER So, Simon Romero, let me just — for our viewers, I will re-read the operative sentence, because there has been a lot of debate about what it means. — The — Senator Warner said, D.P. World will transfer fully the U.S. operations to a United States entity.
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:Dubai threat to hit back
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Aleksander Boyd / vcrisis.com:
North American opinion Research Inc. replies to Vcrisis — Julio Makarem and Ricardo Valbuena have published today a two page communiqué in Venezuela's most read newspaper Ultimas Noticias (see below). In it they accuse me, among other things, of being part, together with Gustavo Coronel …
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Philip Shenon / New York Times:
$25,000 to Lobby Group Is Tied to Access to Bush — WASHINGTON, March 9 — The chief of an Indian tribe represented by the lobbyist Jack Abramoff was admitted to a meeting with President Bush in 2001 days after the tribe paid a prominent conservative lobbying group $25,000 at Mr. Abramoff's direction …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
In an Election Year, GOP Wary of Following Bush — When President Bush and senior adviser Karl Rove mapped out plans for a political comeback in 2006, this was nowhere on the script. Suddenly, the collapse of a port-management deal neither even knew about a month ago has devastated …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
REWRITING VERY RECENT HISTORY — This is basically a dog-bites-man story; the Washington Post reports on its poll showing that a growing number of Americans express disapproval of Islam, and a majority now say there are more violent extremists among Muslims than other religions.
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Teri Figueroa / nctimes.com:
Woman sues for alleged firing over talk show bumper sticker — VISTA — A San Diego County woman is suing her former employer, accusing her manager of firing her on the spot when she saw the woman's car had a bumper sticker advertising a progressive talk radio station.
Krempasky / RedState:
Kos/Krempasky to Congress: Pass HR 1606 — Markos and I have sent a letter to every Member of the House this morning - urging them to pass HR 1606 as soon as possible. While there is a promising proposal from the Center for Democracy & Technology floating about - it's imperative …
Sean Callebs / CNN:
No room at the inn for New Orleans dog search team — NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — One of three canine search-and-rescue teams trained to look for bodies left by Hurricane Katrina plans to leave New Orleans after just a few days on the job, because there won't be a hotel room to stay in, the men said Wednesday.
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Official Says Shiite Party Suppressed Body Count — BAGHDAD, March 8 — Days after the bombing of a Shiite shrine unleashed a wave of retaliatory killings of Sunnis, the leading Shiite party in Iraq's governing coalition directed the Health Ministry to stop tabulating execution-style shootings …
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Betty Parker / News Press:
Thieves hit Democrats' office — Lee County's Democratic headquarters had its second break-in in almost as many years this week. — Thieves ignored computer equipment and other valuables, and took the party's financial records and voter data, said Lyndia Bradley, Lee County's Democratic chairwoman.
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
South Dakota's Top Paper Refuses To Editorialize On Abortion Ban — NEW YORK Although the biggest abortion rights story in 33 years is taking place in its own backyard, South Dakota's largest newspaper will not editorialize on the controversial statewide abortion ban just recently approved by its legislature.
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Michael J. Totten:
Zarqawi Was Here — BIARA, IRAQ - The PUK's Minister of the Interior ordered 20 heavily armed Peshmerga soldiers to go with me to the borderland mountain village of Biara. For years the village was occupied by Ansar Al Islam, the Kurdish-Arab-Persian branch of Al Qaeda in Northern Iraq.
BREITBART.COM:
World box office dipped 7.9 pct to 23 billion dollars last year : study — Hollywood movie ticket sales around the world dropped by 7.9 percent last year to 23 billion dollars, with the US box office accounting for nearly 40 percent of the haul, a study showed.
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