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12:00 PM ET, April 3, 2006

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court refuses to hear Padilla appeal  —  The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a military jail for more than three years as an "enemy combatant."  The Court, however, declined to dismiss the case as moot, as the Bush Administration had urged.
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Associated Press:
Justices, 6-3, Sidestep Ruling on Padilla Case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Jose Padilla, held as an enemy combatant without traditional legal rights for more than three years, sidestepping a challenge to Bush administration wartime detention powers.
Discussion: The Heretik
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Kennedy's Assault on Editorial Writers
Discussion: Poynter Online
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Carroll Reunites With Family  —  After 82 Days as a Hostage in Iraq, Freed Journalist Is Home  —  BOSTON, April 2 — Journalist Jill Carroll was back on U.S. soil Sunday, tearfully embracing her parents and twin sister after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq that she said gave her a deep appreciation for the myriad simple joys of freedom.
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Francis Harris / Telegraph:
Right-wing bloggers attack freed hostage for 'treason'  —  The freed American hostage Jill Carroll arrived home after 83 days of captivity in Iraq yesterday - to a barrage of criticism from Right-wingers who accused her of showing too much sympathy for her kidnappers.
John Noonan / The Officers' Club:
Carroll Release: What Can We learn?
Discussion: strategypage.com
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Ivory Tower Stonewall  —  A 9/11 survivor asks Yale to explain why it admitted the Taliban Man.  —  Katherine Bailey and her sister, Margaret Pothier, have a bone to pick with Yale President Richard Levin over his university's admission of a former Taliban official as a student.
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ClintTaylor / Townhall.com:   The Next Step: The Yale Corporation
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
White House shake-up to continue?  —  Sources: Press spokesman, treasury chief may be next  —  CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) — Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan and Treasury Secretary John Snow could be next in a shake-up in the Bush administration, according to White House and GOP sources.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Frist Is Treading a Perilous Path Leading to 2008  —  WASHINGTON, April 2 — History does not bode well for Bill Frist, and he knows it.  —  "Coming into this job, everybody said if you, in your future, ever want to consider running for president of the United States, people said, 'Do not do it …
New York Times:
Iraq's Premier Is Asked to Quit as Shiites Split  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 2 — Iraq's dominant Shiite political bloc fractured Sunday when its most powerful faction publicly demanded that the incumbent Shiite prime minister resign over his inability to form a unified government.
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters  —  Contractor Will Try to Finish 20 of 142 Sites  —  BAGHDAD — A reconstruction contract for the building of 142 primary health centers across Iraq is running out of money, after two years and roughly $200 million, with no more than 20 clinics …
Lowell Ponte / Front Page Magazine:
Cynthia McKinney: The New Face of the Left?  —  Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia made news last week when she allegedly, as WXIA-TV in Atlanta reported, "punched a Capitol police officer on Wednesday afternoon after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector."
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11alive.com:   McKinney Speaks Monday Morning
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Says It Test-Fired Underwater Missile  —  TEHRAN, April 2 — Iran said Sunday that it had test-fired what it described as a sonar-evading underwater missile just two days after it announced that it had fired a new missile that could carry multiple warheads and evade radar systems.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
WHAT'S THE PLAN?....Glenn Reynolds suggests today that George Bush's difficulties are not so much with the people who were fair weather supporters of the war from the start, but rather with the people who were its most fervent fans: … Like most slogan-driven hawks, however …
Discussion: Sadly, No!
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
MARK STEYN: … Read the whole thing, especially the last paragraph.
Discussion: Bookworm Room
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Prosecution of Midwife Casts Light on Home Births  —  BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 29 — Angela Hendrix-Petry gave birth to her daughter Chloe by candlelight in her bedroom here in the early morning of March 12, with a thunderstorm raging outside and her family and midwife huddled around her.
Daily Press Newspaper:
Schools punishing wavers of U.S. flag  —  Boy suspended after flap at Ranchero Middle School; incidents reported in Jurupa and Colorado  —  HESPERIA — While thousands of Hispanic students spent the week facing suspension for walking out of class, now Caucasian students around the country …
Niles Lathem / New York Post:
NYC'S TERROR BANK  —  April 3, 2006 — DA SHUTS $3B ACCT.  —  WASHINGTON - Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has shut down a massive terror-finance pipeline in which a whopping $3 billion in profits from drug deals and other crimes flowed through a major New York bank to Middle East fanatics, The Post has learned.
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT and CALIFORNIA YANKEE
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
Iraq Violence Kills at Least 50; 6 U.S. Personnel Reported Dead  —  BAGHDAD, April 2 — At least 50 people were killed Sunday in Iraq in a catalogue of violence that included a mortar attack, military firefights, roadside bombings and other explosions.  —  In addition, the U.S. military reported …
USA Today:
Some homeowners struggle to keep up with adjustable rates  —  For 45 years, Robert and Lorraine Brown have lived in their ranch-style home in Florissant, Mo. One of their four children was even born there.  But for the past eight months, the couple have been locked in a sleep-wrecking race to keep up with their rising mortgage bills.
 
 
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Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Head of Sorbonne attacks 'ignorant' student protesters
Discussion: QandO and The American Mind
Scotland Sunday Herald:
America's war on the web
Paul Marshall / Weekly Standard:
Apostates from Islam  —  THE NEWS THAT, DESPITE the Afghan parliament's …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
NY Daily News:
Gore gets 'Green' and mean with W
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The News Media  —  Let's say you were part of a group designing …
Newsweek:
A Dark Day Revisited  —  Five years later, Hollywood is betting …
USA Today:
Growth in federal spending unchecked
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Y is for Yahoo  —  THE HOUSE CAUCUS TO RETURN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY …
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and Power Line
 Earlier Items: 
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Sectarian Strife Fuels Gun Sales in Baghdad
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
New York City Losing Blacks, Census Shows
Christina Hoff Sommers / Weekly Standard:
Being a Man  —  Harvey Mansfield ponders the male of the species.
Discussion: Althouse and chicagoboyz.net
Ian Cobain / Guardian:
Revealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp
Agence France Presse:
Saudi king vows to annihilate Al-Qaeda
Discussion: TigerHawk and SpeakSpeak News
Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Poll: Most Open to Letting Immigrants Stay
Drudge Report:
LAURA BUSH SAYS HILLARY KEPT BAD HOUSE; WEST WING DECORATIONS WERE GAUDY, OUTDATED
Discussion: Iowa Voice and Norwegianity
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Let Cooler Heads Prevail
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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