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Associated Press:
Lawyer: No DNA Match in Duke Gang Rape Case — DURHAM, N.C. — DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday. — Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police …
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Raleigh News & Observer:
Attorney: No DNA found on victim — From staff reports — DURHAM — Defense lawyers said Monday that DNA testing proves that Duke University lacrosse players did not rape a woman hired to strip at a team party, but the district attorney said he remains intent on building his case.
wral.com:
DA Plans To Proceed With Case Despite No DNA Matches — Defense Attorneys Hope 'Community Healing' Can Begin — RALEIGH, N.C. — Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said he plans to move forward with his case against three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team despite DNA results …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Wowie Zahawie — Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger. — In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie.
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National Review:
Sixteen Words, Again — In Sunday's Washington Post Dafna Linzer and Barton Gellman provide their gullible readers with a reprise of one of the great myths of the runup to the Iraq war: that President Bush used blatantly false information to justify the war.
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BBC:
Centre-left claims Italy victory — Italy's centre-left opposition has won a narrow victory in the lower house of parliament, official results say. — It won 49.8% of the vote against 49.7% for the centre-right, according to interior ministry figures. — The head of the centre-left coalition …
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Alessandra Rizzo / Associated Press:
Italian Election Remains Too Close to Call — ROME - Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving premier since World War II, was locked in a battle for power early Tuesday with center-left challenger Romano Prodi as vote projections from parliamentary election returns swung dramatically back and forth.
BBC:
Election cliffhanger grips Italy — Italy's general election is turning into an extremely close race, with early results pointing to a slender lead for PM Silvio Berlusconi. — Mr Berlusconi's centre-right coalition may narrowly retain control of both houses of parliament, according to projections from the Nexus pollsters.
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Immigration Advocates Rally Across U.S. — Crowds of immigrants and their supporters predicted to total in the hundreds of thousands marched today in more than 100 cities throughout the country, casting off the old fears of their illegal status to assert that they have a right to a humane life in this country.
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Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
Thousands Demonstrate Over Immigration — NEW YORK - Hundreds of thousands of people demanding U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants took to the streets in dozens of cities from New York to San Diego on Monday in some of the most widespread demonstrations since the mass protests began around the country last month.
Michelle Malkin:
LIVE FROM NEW YORK — Two correspondents who attended the New York anti-immigration enforcement demonstration have sent reports. — MacLachlan snapped photos posted over at his Flickr page and sends these comments: … Not yet, anyway. — Almighty Allah Pundit was also in attendance …
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
FRANCE SURRENDERS — France has scrapped its proposed youth jobs laws that allows workers in their first two years of employment to be fired at will. The idea behind the bill, backed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, was to give employers more incentive to hire the young by alleviating …
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Matthew Bigg / Reuters:France scraps youth job law
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House — WASHINGTON - Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Bush's Job Approval Rating Continues to Swoon — Forty-Seven Percent of Americans 'Strongly' Disapprove of Handling of the Presidency — Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low and boosted Democratic chances …
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CNN:
Bush: Talk of Iran attack 'wild speculation' — Reports suggest U.S. contemplating nuclear strike against Tehran — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Monday dismissed as "wild speculation" reports that his administration has considered nuclear strikes against sites in Iran to prevent the nation from building nuclear weapons.
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MSNBC:
Annex Mexico? — One difference between the demonstrations in France and the demonstrations in America: The French are demonstrating for the right not to work hard, while the demonstrators in America mostly want to work. — And most of them, I think, really want that.
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opinionatedbastard.com:
It's that Time of the Month — It's time for me to do my update on Iraq based on the Iraq Index from the Brookings Report. I was on vacation last week, so its one week late. — First off, US soldiers killed in Iraq continues to fall. This is the 5th straight month:
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