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Haaretz:
Olmert, declaring victory, appeals to Abbas for peace talks — Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, declaring an election victory, appealed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas early Wednesday to enter into negotiations over the permanent borders of Israel, but added that Israel …
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Ravi Nessman / Associated Press:
Olmert Declares Victory in Israel Election — JERUSALEM - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory for his centrist Kadima party in Israel's elections Tuesday, vowing to act on his own if necessary to draw Israel's final borders and "painfully" uproot Jewish settlers if negotiations with the Palestinians are not possible.
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Pledge to 'Eliminate' Osama — WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats promise to "eliminate" Osama bin Laden and ensure a "responsible redeployment of U.S. forces" from Iraq in 2006 in an election-year national security policy statement. — In the position paper to be announced Wednesday …
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Tell Afghan court belief is no crime — Canadian troops have died in Afghanistan helping to oust the Taliban regime, to free 28 million people from tyranny and to restore democracy. And 2,300 Canadian troops are now policing Kandahar, one of the most violence-torn regions of the country …
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Crunch time again — Here are a couple of disturbing reports from Baghdad. Alaa the Mesopotamian says that its unclear which security forces are to be trusted. … Baghdad Burning reports a somewhat similar picture. She was watching television when a strange message was broadcast.
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Greg Levine / Forbes:
Bush Says Chief Of Staff Andrew Card Resigns — NEW YORK - — White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card has resigned. — President George W. Bush announced the resignation in a press conference Tuesday morning. — Card was not only a longtime friend of his boss, but had served …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program — WASHINGTON, March 28 — Five former judges on the nation's most secretive court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush's domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal role in overseeing the surveillance program.
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RNC Memo Warns GOPers Not To Distance Themselves From Bush — Republican pollster Jan van Lohuizen, in a memo written for RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, warns that if members of Congress try to drive a wedge between themselves and Pres. Bush, it'd be akin to adding weight to an anchor.
Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
Liberian Warlord Charles Taylor Arrested in Nigeria — FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, March 29 - A day after his evident escape, Nigerian police arrested former Liberian warlord and president Charles G. Taylor today as he tried to cross into Cameroon, according to Nigerian police officials.
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Rukmini Callimachi / Associated Press:
New Orleans to Sell Flooded Buses on EBay — Starved for cash, the New Orleans school district is taking a long shot and hoping to sell its flooded, unsalvageable school buses on eBay. — Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senate to Weigh Guest-Worker Proposal — With the Republican Party deeply divided, the Senate will take up a broad revision of the nation's immigration laws today amid signs that conservatives are ready to compromise on efforts to offer illegal immigrants new avenues to lawful employment.
Slate:
The Secret of George Mason — What its Final Four basketball team and its unusual economics department have in common. — Unlike his neighbors, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, founding father George Mason has rarely gotten his props from historians and the public.
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Sean Hannity, Alec Baldwin, WABC, New York City — WABC MELTDOWN — Alec Baldwin And Sean Hannity In Radio Cockfight — After an ugly on-air meltdown between actor/ guest host Alec Baldwin and caller Sean Hannity Sunday evening, New York radio fans are wondering: was this a planned stunt?
Tom Stuckey / Associated Press:
Attempt to revive gay marriage ban fails in Senate … An attempt to revive a constitutional amendment that would prohibit same-sex marriage failed in the Maryland Senate today, apparently leaving no further options this year for opponents of gay marriage. — With a proposal to amend …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justices Question Law on Detainee Trials — WASHINGTON, March 28 — As the justices of the Supreme Court took their seats Tuesday morning to hear Osama bin Laden's former driver challenge the Bush administration's plan to try him before a military commission, one question …
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Alastair Macdonald / Reuters:
US troops defend raid, say Iraqis faked "massacre" — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. commanders in Iraq on Monday accused powerful Shi'ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage accusations that U.S.-led troops massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Choosing Ignorance — THE NEW YORK TIMES today joined the debate about Iraqi documents with a front-page news article and an op-ed by Peter Bergen. It's been nearly two weeks since the first documents were released, but a belated acknowledgement of the news is better than nothing.
Brian / mediabistro.com:
Q1 '06: MSNBC's Olbermann Beats CNN's Zahn & HLN's Grace In The Demo — In the first quarter of 2006, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann beat CNN's Paula Zahn Now in the 25-54 demographic. "This marks MSNBC's first quarterly primetime victory over CNN in the demo in almost five years …
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