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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Grand Jury Gets Rove Testimony Over C.I.A. Leak — WASHINGTON, April 26 — Karl Rove, the senior counselor to President Bush, testified for several hours on Wednesday before the federal grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case, in an appearance that was a sign of renewed attention by the special prosecutor …
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Ari Fleischer / Washington Post:
Showtime at the White House — The Washington press corps — working in an industry that's been transformed by talk radio, 24-hour cable news and the Internet — still views the White House briefing room as it was back in the 1950s — or the '60s, '70s, '80s or even early '90s.
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship — WASHINGTON — President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans …
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Michelle Malkin:
OPEN-BORDERS BUSH: THE FINAL STRAW? — Not that this is a surprise to anyone who has actually listened to President Bush's open borders-sympathizing over the last five years, but here's the "news" from AP tonight: … A more accurate headline: Privately, Bush Says He Favors Amnesty — More:
New York Times:
Rice and Rumsfeld Express Confidence in Iraqi Leader — BAGHDAD, April 27 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld concluded a one-day visit to Iraq on Thursday morning with a declaration of confidence in the prime minister designate, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki …
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Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
New Iraqi Vice President's Sister Killed
New Iraqi Vice President's Sister Killed
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Projected Iraq War Costs Soar — Total Spending Is Likely to More Than Double, Analysis Finds — The cost of the war in Iraq will reach $320 billion after the expected passage next month of an emergency spending bill currently before the Senate, and that total is likely to more than double …
Scot J. Paltrow / Wall Street Journal:
Prosecutors May Widen Congressional-Bribe Case — Cunningham Is Suspected — Of Asking for Prostitutes; — Were Others Involved? — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Pain at Pumps May Be Felt at Polls — As Gas Prices Soar, Voters Want to Send a Message to Lawmakers — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 26 — One of the soaring bridges to the beach here is named for longtime Republican congressman E. Clay Shaw Jr., and at its foot is a gas station where drivers …
CBS News:
'We Know What's Best For You' — (CBS) This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer. — For several weeks in a row there have been headlines like "Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low." This week, it was CNN's turn to break the news, with a poll showing just 32 percent …
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Roger Friedman / Fox News:
Neil Young: Exclusive 'Impeach the President' Lyrics — 'Law & Order' | Odds 'n' Ends — Neil Young: Exlusive 'Impeach the President' Lyrics — Neil Young's new album, Living with War, is an incendiary, moving, totally American document of peaceful protest that is going to make a lot of people crazy one way or another.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
House Committee Vote Results: The Momentum Shifts in Our Favor — Ok, so the vote on the Markey amendment to protect the internet has happened, and it was voted down, 34-22. That is a big deal. It's too bad we lost the vote, but we expected that loss. What we did not expected was the narrow margin.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Senate Panel Urge FEMA Dismantling — WASHINGTON, April 26 —The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so fundamentally dysfunctional during Hurricane Katrina that Congress should abolish it and create a new disaster response agency from scratch, according to a draft of bipartisan recommendations proposed by a Senate committee.
New York Times:
Second Thoughts in Congress on Oil Tax Breaks — WASHINGTON, April 26 — As anxiety spread in Congress on Wednesday over soaring oil prices, lawmakers in both parties said they were ready to take a tough look at oil and gas incentives they passed as recently as eight months ago.
John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Sag in New Poll — Bush and Congress — Get Perilously Low Marks — As Gas Prices Rise — Rising gas prices have intensified discontent with Washington and handed Congress a frightening midterm election backdrop: a deeply pessimistic electorate, despite a robust economy.
Steve Quinn / Associated Press:
Oil Prices Drive Up Exxon Mobil 1Q Profit — DALLAS — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest oil company, said Thursday that higher oil prices drove first-quarter profit up 7 percent from the prior year. — Net income rose to $8.4 billion, or $1.37 per share, in the January-March period …