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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.
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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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Matt Stoller / mydd.com:
Right-wing Racism and the Moderate Voice
Right-wing Racism and the Moderate Voice
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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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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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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 …
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.
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.
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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 …
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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 …
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Sectarian Strife Fuels Gun Sales in Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 — With chipped, painted fingernails, Nahrawan al-Janabi picked up a cartridge and slid it into the chamber. — "Like this," she said, loading her new Glock pistol with a loud, satisfying click. "You see, like this."
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.
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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