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Exclusive: Guard Who Saw Alleged Duke Victim Says No Sign or Mention of Rape — Sealed Indictments Handed Down by Grand Jury — April 17, 2006 — The grand jury considering the Duke lacrosse team rape allegations has adjourned for the day and has handed down indictments, all of which are sealed.
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Raleigh News & Observer:
No indictments in Duke lacrosse case — DURHAM — A Durham grand jury issued a list of indictments this afternoon that did not include members of the Duke University lacrosse team. — District Attorney Mike Nifong had been widely anticipated to seek charges today from the grand jury …
Tim Whitmire / Associated Press:
Lawyer: 2 Duke Lacrosse Players Indicted — DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury issued sealed indictments Monday against two members of the Duke University lacrosse team in connection with allegations that a stripper was raped last month at a team party, a defense attorney said.
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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
2 Duke Lacrosse Players Indicted in Rape Case — DURHAM, N.C., April 17 - A state grand jury issued sealed indictments against two Duke University lacrosse players Monday in a case involving a woman who has accused three team members of raping her at a party last month, Robert C. Ekstrand …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Washington Post Wins Four Pulitzers — The Washington Post won four Pulitzer Prizes today, including awards for breaking open the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and disclosing the existence of secret CIA prisons overseas, while two newspapers whose regions were devastated by Hurricane Katrina shared the prize for public service.
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James Barron / New York Times:
Media & Advertising … - TECHNOLOGY - SCIENCE - HEALTH - SPORTS - OPINION - ARTS - STYLE - TRAVEL - JOBS - REAL ESTATE - AUTOS — Gulf Coast Newspapers Share Pulitzer — The devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the continuing war on terror dominated the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes, announced today by Columbia University.
Ezra Klein:
Hunting Slugs — I know I'm not supposed to, but I pity Michelle Malkin. Really, I do. Punditry is a game of incentives, encouragement, luck. You write a hundred articles before striking paydirt with one. That zeitgeisty dispatch activates an eruption of applause and adulation, so you try to repeat it.
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Mark in Mexico, Hullabaloo, Riehl World View, Crooks and Liars, Flopping Aces, Pharyngula and In Search Of Utopia
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Clueless Joe Wilson — How did the CIA's special envoy miss Zahawie's trip to Niger? — Nobody appears to dispute what I wrote in last week's Slate to the effect that in February 1999, Saddam Hussein dispatched his former envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency …
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Chicago Tribune:
Ryan found guilty on all counts — Co-defendant Warner also guilty — A federal jury convicted former Gov. George Ryan today on all charges that as secretary of state he steered state business to cronies in return for vacations, gifts and other benefits for himself and his family.
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Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False — Eleven days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war …
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Changes to Bush Staff Expected Soon — Are heads rolling at the White House? Or just Easter eggs on the South Lawn? — President Bush's new chief of staff told White House aides this morning to expect a shakeup and asked anyone who was thinking of leaving to quit now, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Blame Builds More Barriers in Immigration Debate — Does chutzpah translate into Spanish? — It's a reasonable question after the joint statement House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) issued last week about the impasse blocking congressional action …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants three cases, acts on asylum issue — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether it is unconstitutional for a judge in a criminal trial to allow family members of a murder victim to wear buttons depicting the victim, when they are spectators in the courtroom.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
SADDAM'S ARCHIVES: WE'RE GETTING WARMER — As regular readers know, we've been cautious about drawing conclusions from the tiny number of Iraqi documents that have so far been made public under Project Harmony. But today, jveritas at Free Republic, whose translation efforts we linked to here …
George Moneo / Babalu Blog:
April 17, 1961 (Updated) — The invasion that could have saved Latin America — Introduction — My father in law was a member of La Brigada 2506 and fought in the Bay of Pigs in what was called Operation Mongoose by the US Government. He has a million stories to tell …
Michelle Malkin:
TERROR IN TEL AVIV — Don't turn away: — Source: Yahoo! News — Getty Images caption: Tel Aviv, ISRAEL: An Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Zaka volunteer picks out pieces of flesh from the scene where a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, in the southern Neveh Sha'anan district …
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Robert Dreyfuss / American Prospect:
Vice Squad — They terrorize other government officials, and they're so secretive that their names aren't even revealed to a harmless federal employee directory. And they've helped ruin the country. Meet Dick Cheney's staff. — Bad heart, errant shotgun, and Halliburton stock options in tow …
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