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Suicide Bomber Kills 8 in Tel Aviv — TEL AVIV, Israel - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside a fast-food restaurant in a bustling commercial area of Tel Aviv during the Passover holiday Monday, killing eight other people and wounding at least 49, police said.
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Nine killed, dozens hurt in Tel Aviv suicide bombing — A Palestinian suicide bomber killed nine people and wounded at least 40 others, six of them seriously, in an explosion near the old central bus station in southern Tel Aviv on Monday afternoon. — Two of the victims died after they had arrived at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
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Tel Aviv suicide bomb kills nine — A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed nine people along with himself and injured about 50 more in Tel Aviv. — The bombing, which came during the festival of Passover, was the first suicide attack in Israel since January.
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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 …
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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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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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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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Widen The Net — Jason Leopold, writing in TruthOut, and Josh Gerstein of the NY Sun both break news in the Plame investigation. Evidently the State Department was quite casual about Ms. Plame's CIA role, describing her in one set of notes as "CIA WMD managerial type and the wife of Amb.
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No Hint Seen in Memo that Plame's Role Was Secret — Contrary to published reports, a State Department memorandum at the center of the investigation into the leak of the name of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame, appears to offer no particular indication that Ms. Plame's role at the agency was classified or covert.
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Congress Approval at 12-Year Low — Rating slipped four percentage points since March — PRINCETON, NJ — Public approval of the job Congress is doing has dipped to its lowest level of 2006, and is now the worst Gallup has recorded since the closing days of the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
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Anger at Bush May Hurt GOP At Polls — Intense and widespread opposition to President Bush is likely to be a sharp spur driving voters to the polls in this fall's midterm elections, according to strategists in both parties, a phenomenon that could give Democrats a turnout advantage over Republicans for the first time in recent years.
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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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How to manage illegal immigration — Watching the furor over immigration policy during the past week, I felt strangely uninvolved. I heard the arguments on both sides, I saw the protesters, I read the commentary. But up here in Minnesota it's not a burning issue, so I've never had to resolve …
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Demonstrations on Immigration Harden a Divide
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Reporters In Glass Houses — From Washington, Page Six Is Just a Stone's Throw Away — They traffic in whispered gossip, charming the big shots, working the party circuit. They gravitate toward boldface names who make good copy. They reward sources who cooperate and can be rougher on those who don't play the game.
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Outrage at Funeral Protests Pushes Lawmakers to Act — Members of Westboro Baptist Church demonstrating in February in Anoka, Minn., near the funeral for Cpl. Andrew Kemple, who was killed in Iraq. People opposed to the church's views carried flags nearby.
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Generals, See Progress — The struggle to form a unity government in Iraq continues, but signs of hope are emerging. One of the sticking points continues to be Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, who has so far refused to resign; however, on Sunday the Iraqi Shia Alliance reported it was close to a deal to replace him.
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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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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 …
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Muslims outraged by new cartoon of Prophet in Hell — An Italian magazine has infuriated Muslims by publishing a cartoon showing the Prophet Mohammed cut in half and burning in Hell. — The drawing appears in Studi Cattolici, a monthly magazine with links to the ultra-conservative Roman Catholic group, Opus Dei.
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No One Is That Crazy. Right? Ummm...right? — One thing that strikes me as funny about this whole "let's invade Iran" thing...wait, did I actually just type that? I'm looking at the desk and I don't see any glass tube with burnt-up brillo pad in it, so I probably didn't just smoke a glittering rock of yeyo.