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Dave Wedge / Boston Herald:
Pat cites pills in car wreck — WASHINGTON -U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy insisted yesterday that he had consumed "no alcohol" before he slammed his Mustang convertible into a concrete barrier near his office, but a hostess at a popular Capitol Hill watering hole told the Herald she saw him drinking in the hours before the crash.
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Washington Post:
Rep. Kennedy's Car Crashes Near Capitol — Officers Accuse Supervisors of Preventing Thorough Investigation — Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy crashed his car into a security barrier near the Capitol early yesterday, and officers at the scene suspected that he might have been intoxicated, a police union official said.
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Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Kennedy Blames Accident on Sleep Medicine — WASHINGTON — Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness.
CNN:
Rep. Kennedy crashes car near Capitol — Rhode Island Democrat points to prescription medication — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rep. Patrick Kennedy, son of Sen. Ted Kennedy, said Thursday he was apparently disoriented by medication when he crashed his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill overnight.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Patrick Kennedy Crashes Car Into a Capitol Hill Barrier
Patrick Kennedy Crashes Car Into a Capitol Hill Barrier
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The Next Filibuster? — Republicans should welcome a judicial brawl. — It's merely taken three years, but Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to come for a vote before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Democrats are likely to oppose him in lock-step …
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Senate Defies Bush on Spending — $109 Billion Bill for Wars, Storm Relief Disdained in House — The Senate ignored President Bush's veto threat yesterday and easily passed a $109 billion emergency spending bill for war and hurricane recovery costs that also brimmed with favors for farmers …
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Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Unwanted Pregnancies Rise for Poor Women — Rate Drops for Those Well Above Poverty Level, Report Indicates — Poor women in America are increasingly likely to have unwanted pregnancies, whereas relatively affluent women are succeeding more and more in getting pregnant only when they want to …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Use of Contraception Drops, Slowing Decline of Abortion Rate — Contraception use has declined strikingly over the last decade, particularly among poor women, making them more likely to get pregnant unintentionally and to have abortions, according to a report released yesterday by the Guttmacher Institute.
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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Poll: Bush's Approval Falls to New Low — WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.
Tim Hames / Times of London:
Lucky for Blair that London results not reflected nationwide — THESE were not a set of local elections for those nervous of statistics. In many ways they have been the most complicated for years. In those parts of England outside of the capital, the appropriate comparison for 2006 …
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New York Times:
Memorial Cost at Ground Zero Nears $1 Billion — The projected cost of building the World Trade Center memorial complex at ground zero has soared to nearly $1 billion, according to the most authoritative estimate to date. — Rebuilding officials concede that the new price tag is breathtaking …
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Why Isn't Socialism Dead? — The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, celebrated May Day by ordering soldiers to occupy his country's natural gas fields. The purpose of this exercise was not military, but economic: Morales has demanded that all foreign companies currently operating …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Never Again? — When something happens for the first time in 1,871 years, it is worth noting. In A.D. 70, and again in 135, the Roman Empire brutally put down Jewish revolts in Judea, destroying Jerusalem, killing hundreds of thousands of Jews and sending hundreds of thousands more into slavery and exile.
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An Army of Climate Davids — Something stunningly sensible has just occurred in the field of climate change research. But what might actually induce gasps of amazement is that that something has been done by the US Government. And it is already causing shock and dismay among tree huggers …
B.A. / Connecticut Bob:
"Lieberman vs. the Day After Pill" — Joe Lieberman supports the approach of the Catholic hospitals when it comes to contraceptives for rape victims (as reported in The New Haven Register, by Gregory B. Hladky on 03/13/2006, via KissJoeGoodbye.Com). — Lieberman said he believes hospitals …