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3:00 PM ET, May 24, 2006

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Washington Post:
Officials Defend Raid on Lawmaker's Office  —  Amid Uproar on Capitol Hill, Gonzales Says Jefferson Search Was Done Carefully  —  Justice Department and FBI officials yesterday vigorously defended a weekend raid on the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson (La.) …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House  —  WASHINGTON, May 23 — After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration's assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend.  —  Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Hastert Demands FBI Return Documents
Edwin Meese Iii / New York Times:
An Amnesty by Any Other Name ...  IN the debate over immigration, "amnesty" has become something of a dirty word.  Some opponents of the immigration bill being debated in the Senate assert that it would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.  Supporters claim it would do no such thing.
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Michelle Malkin:
MEESE: IT IS AMNESTY  —  ***scroll for updates...958am EDT: Senate voting on whether to kill the McConnell amendment to the immig bill, which would require voting identification (hat tip: Nighthaven)...motion to table is not agreed to...1000am EDT: Here we go on cloture vote …
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Senate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Any differences between Democrats in 2003 and today?  —  Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday essentially assured that President Bush's nominee to head the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, would not only be confirmed by the full Senate, but confirmed overwhelmingly.
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Oliver Willis
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Laura Blumenfeld / Washington Post:
Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart  —  The houses were dark on Bill Frist's street.  A morning bird chirped; the others were waiting for dawn.  But Frist was awake, and his bedroom light was on.  "I'm going to take a shower," the Senate majority leader said brightly.  Ten minutes later, the blow dryer roared.
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
In need of moral clarity  —  "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role-models, Muhammad Atta." … Do you remember Taheri-azar?  The 25-year-old Iranian graduate of the University of North Carolina rented an SUV in March and drove it into The Pit, a campus gathering place for UNC students.
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Durham Herald-Sun:
Defense's beefs with accuser's story cited
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
Washington Post:
Iran Requests Direct Talks on Nuclear Program  —  TEHRAN, May 23 — Iran has followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent letter to President Bush with explicit requests for direct talks on its nuclear program, according to U.S. officials, Iranian analysts and foreign diplomats.
The Raw Story:
Pelosi asks congressman snared in bribery probe to resign post  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has formally asked Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) to resign from the powerful Ways and Means Committee.  —  Jefferson wrote Pelosi quickly in reply, refusing to surrender his seat.
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Senator McCain Worked Blue  —  On New York Stage  —  Behind Closed Doors, Republican Works in Material: 'I'd Tell Shiites and Sunnis, "Stop the Bulls**t"'; Fresh From Falwell, Attacks Right-Wing Nativism  —  For all the national attention surrounding John McCain's two highly anticipated …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Gonzales Defends Phone-Data Collection  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday that the government can obtain domestic telephone records without court approval under a 1979 Supreme Court ruling that authorized the collection of business records.
Michael Warren / Detroit News:
Keep 'America' in Michigan schools  —  State bureaucrats want to do what Stalin, Osama could only dream about  —  C ensoring the word "America" from our own schools is something Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden would never have thought possible.  Michigan has done it without a whimper.
CNN:
Blaze engulfs Istanbul airport  —  ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) — A massive fire has engulfed part of Istanbul airport, injuring three people but not causing major air traffic delays, Turkish officials said.  —  A transport ministry official said the blaze, which broke out in the cargo section …
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Proponents Press Senate on Stem Cell Research Measure  —  A full year after the House passed legislation that would loosen President Bush's restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, the Senate is coming under intense pressure to tackle the controversial bill — in the awkward new context of an election year.
David E. Rosenbaum / New York Times:
Lloyd Bentsen Dies at 85; Senator Ran With Dukakis  —  Lloyd Bentsen, former congressman and senator from Texas, onetime secretary of the Treasury and the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1988, died yesterday at his home in Houston.  He was 85.  The cause was complications of a stroke he suffered in 1998, his family said.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
It Was Just A Matter of Time  —  ... before Lou Dobbs went full-on racist on the immigration question.  Liberal Oasis has the story: … The CCC is a well known neo-confederate group that is the direct heir to the White Citizens Councils of the Jim Crow south.
Dawn Kopecki / Business Week:
Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules  —  Now, the White House's top spymaster can cite national security to exempt businesses from reporting requirements  —  President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security …
Discussion: Daily Kos and KnoxViews
 
 
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MSNBC:
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for May 23
Discussion: TalkLeft and Crooks and Liars
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Pentagon Finds China Fortifying Its Long-Range Military Arsenal
Rich Miller / Bloomberg:
Stagflation Lite, Central Banking Nightmare, May Await Bernanke
Brett Martel / Associated Press:
Hurricane Drill in Louisiana Canceled
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Lou Dobbs / CNN:
Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell
Bloomberg:
Zoellick Would Leave State If Passed Over for Top Treasury Job
StrategyPage:
Taliban Offensive Shot to Pieces
Discussion: COUNTERCOLUMN
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Opinion Journal:
The Parent Trap  —  How safety fanatics help drive down birthrates.
Discussion: alicublog and Althouse
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. Urged to Stop Paying Iraqi Reporters
Discussion: Air America Radio
New York Times:
West Bank Pullout Gets a Nod From Bush
Wall Street Journal:
Should the Net Be Neutral?
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC News Experiment Ends With Return to Solo Anchor
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Demagogue
Martin Samuel / Times of London:
Turn 9/11 rubble into a killing machine? Hello?
Discussion: Samizdata.net, normblog and lgf
Zogby:
U.S. Public Widely Distrusts Its Leaders
Dania Saadi / Bloomberg:
Al-Zarqawi Aide, Arrested in Jordan, Confesses to Iraq Killings
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Apple News adds a Live Activity widget to track the results of the US elections in real time on iPhone, iPad, and Watch

 
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