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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
For Clintons, Delicate Dance of Married and Public Lives — Bill and Hillary Clinton flew to Chicago together last month to deliver speeches a few hours and a few miles apart. And like any couple, they thought about having dinner at day's end. But life is not so simple when you are married to a Clinton.
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Brad / JUST CITIZENS. Not your Father's Political Party:
Nimrod of the Week — And now, for the Nimrod of the Week award. This week's award goes to a man named Jesse MacBeth. — Mr. MacBeth has done a print interview at the website SocialistAlternative.org in which he claims, among other things, that he was an Army "Special Forces Ranger" …
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James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak — WASHINGTON - Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors' charge that Vice President Cheney's chief aide lied to them, court papers show. — Prosecutors say disgraced Cheney chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby learned CIA spy Valerie Plame's identity from …
Mike Allen / Time:
Exclusive: A Rising Star Offers His Own Immigration Plan — Leading House Conservative Mike Pence offers a "no amnesty" solution in an effort to get House Republicans on board — With the Senate headed toward a final vote on an immigration bill this week, a leader of House conservatives …
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Immigration Bill Expected To Pass Senate This Week — Hastert May Block Version That Divides House GOP — Backers of President Bush's bid to revamp immigration laws scored another small victory in the Senate yesterday, but they are increasingly concerned about a House Republican policy …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
For Democrats, a Scandal of Their Own — WASHINGTON, May 22 — Democrats' plans to make Republican corruption a theme of their election strategy this year have been complicated by accusations of wrongdoing in their own ranks, leading the party to try on Monday to blunt the political effects …
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Washington Post:
FBI Raid on Lawmaker's Office Is Questioned
FBI Raid on Lawmaker's Office Is Questioned
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Peter Wehner / Opinion Journal:
Revisionist History — Antiwar myths about Iraq, debunked. — Iraqis can participate in three historic elections, pass the most liberal constitution in the Arab world, and form a unity government despite terrorist attacks and provocations. Yet for some critics of the president, these are minor matters.
Washington Post:
Personal Data on Veterans Is Stolen — Burglary Leaves Millions at Risk Of Identity Theft — As many as 26.5 million veterans were placed at risk of identity theft after an intruder stole an electronic data file this month containing their names, birth dates and Social Security numbers …
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Haaretz:
IDF arrests most-wanted Hamas bomb mastermind in West Bank — After an eight-year manhunt, Israeli security forces early Tuesday seized the Ramallah-area commander of Hamas' military wing, Israel's most wanted man in the West Bank. — Sheikh Ibrahim Hamed, 41, has been wanted since 1998 …
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ABCNEWS:
Charles Gibson Named Sole Anchor of 'World News Tonight' — Elizabeth Vargas to Step Down to Take Maternity Leave and Return to Co-Anchor '20/20' and Anchor ABC News Specials in the Fall — May 23, 2006 — ABC News has named Charles Gibson to be sole anchor of "World News Tonight."
Cragg Hines / Houston Chronicle:
Former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen dies — Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr., a Texas patrician who made a sizable fortune in private business and an even bigger name in national government as a U.S. senator and Treasury secretary, has died, family members said today. He was 85.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Is Left-Leaning Google Censoring Right-Leaning Websites? — Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
VOA's Baghdad Bureau Still Closed After Six Months — The Voice of America's bureau in Baghdad has been closed for the past six months, ever since the government-funded agency withdrew its only reporter in Iraq after she was fired upon in an ambush and her security guard was later killed.
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Lou Dolinar / Real Clear Politics:
Katrina: What the Media Missed — Remember the dozens, maybe hundreds, of rapes, murders, stabbings and deaths resulting from official neglect at the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina? The ones that never happened, as even the national media later admitted?
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Foes Clash Over Cash — Lieberman Plays Up Lamont's Fortune — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman left no doubt Monday he will make anti-war challenger Ned Lamont's personal fortune an issue with voters, now that Lamont has upped his personal investment in the campaign to $1 million.
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Architect of New War on the West — Writings Lay Out Post-9/11 Strategy of Isolated Cells Joined in Jihad — MADRID — From secret hideouts in South Asia, the Spanish-Syrian al-Qaeda strategist published thousands of pages of Internet tracts on how small teams of Islamic extremists …