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10:50 AM ET, April 11, 2006

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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Pressure, Frustration Mount  —  The immigrant demonstrators who flooded the streets of America's cities yesterday ratcheted up pressure on lawmakers to complete an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, while raising Republicans' frustration with President Bush for what they see as a muddled stand on the issue.
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status  —  WASHINGTON, April 10 — Waving American flags and blue banners that read "We Are America," throngs of cheering, chanting immigrants and their supporters converged on the nation's capital and in scores of other cities on Monday calling …
Washington Post:
'We Decided Not to Be Invisible Anymore'  —  Pro-Immigration Rallies Are Held Across Country  —  Hundreds of thousands of pro-immigration demonstrators mobilized on the Mall and in scores of cities across the country yesterday in a powerful display of grass-roots muscle-flexing that organizers …
New York Times:
With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush in Spotlight  —  WASHINGTON, April 10 — From the early days of the C.I.A. leak investigation in 2003, the Bush White House has insisted there was no effort to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man who emerged as the most damaging critic of the administration's case …
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Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
Media Selectively Recycles Old News  —  We journalists are environmentally friendly.  We recycle.  We've been recycling old news all weekend, without, of course, telling you it's old news.  —  "A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President Bush …
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
On the Subject of Leaks, a Talkative President Runs Dry
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:   Bush Says He Declassified Pre-War Intel
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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Maria Sanminiatelli / Associated Press:
Prodi Declares Victory in Italian Election  —  ROME - Italy's parliamentary election hung in the balance Tuesday as the country counted ballots cast by Italians living abroad, including in the United States, for six new Senate seats.  —  Near final returns showed opposition leader Romano …
Discussion: TigerHawk, RedState and Atlas Shrugs
Independent:
Italy heads toward split parliament
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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 …
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Mark Steyn / City Journal:
Facing Down Iran  —  Our lives depend on it.  —  Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill—America, Britain, Europe, Russia—and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia.
Discussion: HolyCoast.com
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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Rich Lowry / The Corner on National Review Online:
WHAT BUSH SHOULD DO  —  When I talk to people about the sad state of the Bush administration lately, we always ask ourselves, "Well, what can he do now?"  And I never have an answer, nor does anyone I talk to.  Which is a pretty good reason to give way to the kind of despair George Conway expressed today.
Discussion: PunditGuy
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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.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order  —  SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Like many American teenagers, Julissa Vargas, 17, has a minimum-wage job in the fast-food industry — but hers has an unusual geographic reach.  —  "Would you like your Coke and orange juice medium or large?"
TimChapman / Townhall.com:
Kingston talks politics...1994  —  Congressman Jack Kingston this afternoon took questions from bloggers on a conference call.  The most talked about issue was immigration reform.  Kingston made it clear that the House of Representatives would hold the line against what he described as a …
Crooks and Liars:
Leaker in Chief can't answer the question  —  Leaker in Chief can't answer the question  —  In an outrageous attempt to avoid a very important question about the private military security that is running around in Iraq, President Bush-well starts panting out of desperation and then said he needed to ask Rumsfeld.
Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO/PHOTO ESSAY: VIVA LA RAZA IN D.C.  —  So, my Sony Handycam and I attended the illegal alien demonstration in D.C. yesterday.  Here are some of the more interesting moments captured on tape:  —  The goofy, out-of-place-looking, non-Spanish speaker on the right was standing on a street corner …
Katherine Zoepf / New York Times:
U.N. Finds That 25% of Married Syrian Women Have Been Beaten  —  DAMASCUS, Syria, April 10 — Syria's first comprehensive field study of violence against women has concluded that nearly one married woman in four surveyed had been beaten.  The study was released last week as part of a report …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Captain's Quarters
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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Mark Trumbull / Christian Science Monitor:
US economy's latest output: better jobs
Floyd Norris / New York Times:
In France, an Economic Bullet Goes Unbitten
Dglover / Beltway Blogroll:
Bloggers Beat The FEC, So Now What?
Discussion: Daily Kos
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
The West can't let Iran have the bomb
Haider Hamza / ABCNEWS:
Iraq's Beauty Queen Resigns After Four Days
William Yardley / New York Times:
Dean Is Mum, but Brother Backs a Lieberman Rival
rawstory.com:
Rove thanks Republican lawyers for their work on 'clean elections'
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Hal G.P. Colebatch / American Spectator:
Three Strikes and You're ... in Like Flint
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catholicexchange.com:
Mexican Constitution's Solution to US Immigration Policy
Anna Quindlen / Newsweek:
There She Was.  There She Goes.  —  Miss America was supplanted …
Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
Getting Numbers Right: An Essential Part of Good Reporting
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
The Egg Roll (Again!) Becomes a Stage for Controversy
Discussion: The Green Knight and Wampum
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Some Worries as San Francisco Goes Wireless
Michelle Malkin:
LIVE FROM NEW YORK
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Immigration Advocates Rally Across U.S.
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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