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5:10 PM ET, June 2, 2006

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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Iraqi Accuses U.S. of 'Daily' Attacks Against Civilians  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 1 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians.  —  As outrage over reports …
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Officials Concluded Troops Followed Rules of Engagement  —  June 2, 2006 — Horrific images of Iraqi adults and children have fueled new allegations that U.S. troops killed civilians in the Iraqi town of Ishaqi.  But ABC News has learned military officials have completed their investigation …
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Troops Respect Iraqis' Rights, Rumsfeld Says  —  SINGAPORE, June 2 — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today defended the training of American troops and insisted that the overwhelming majority respect the rights of Iraqi civilians.  —  "We know that 99.9 per cent of our forces conduct themselves …
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
U.S. accused in more Iraq civilian deaths
Discussion: Dohiyi Mir
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Payroll Growth Stalls in May  —  The nation's economy generated 75,000 new jobs last month, the Labor Department reported today, about half the growth anticipated by economists.  —  Job creation was revised downward in the survey for the months of March and April as well.
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Payroll Growth Stalls With 75,000 New Jobs  —  Job growth faltered in May, with employers boosting payrolls by just 75,000.  Yet the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 4.6 percent, the lowest since the summer of 2001.  —  The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department on Friday, offered a mixed picture of the jobs climate.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Jobs Report Signals Cooling Economy  —  The American economy added a surprisingly weak number of jobs in May, a sign that nervousness over a cooling economy may be spreading among the nation's employers.  —  The net increase in nonfarm payrolls in May — 75,000 — is a significant falloff from April …
New York Times:
City Has Itself to Blame for Terror Cuts, U.S. Says  —  The federal agency distributing $711 million in antiterrorism money to cities around the nation found numerous flaws in New York City's application and gave poor grades to many of its proposals.  —  Its criticism extended to some of the city's …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Flash: DHS Disputes Al-Qaeda's 5-Star Rating of Two U.S. Cities  —  Homeland Security Undersecretary George Foresman was leaving the Chamber of Commerce on H Street yesterday morning when he met one of his subordinates, Tracy Henke, arriving to deliver a speech.  —  "It's gonna get better," Foresman told Henke, consolingly.
Washington Post:
D.C. at Low Risk Of Attack, Says Federal Agency
Caitlin Rother / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Documents show issues with wives, child support  —  Republican Jim Galley, who is running for Congress as a "pro-traditional family" candidate, was married to two women at the same time, defaulted on his child support payments and has been accused of abuse by one of his ex-wives.
Sky News:
Police Shoot Bomb Suspect  —  A man has been shot by police in an anti-terror raid in London on a suspected chemical bomb factory, Sky News has learnt.  —  The 20-year-old, who has not been identified, was shot in the shoulder and was arrested in hospital - his life is not in danger.
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Times of London:
Man shot in raid on suspected London bomb factory
New York Times:
U.S. Wants Companies to Keep Web Usage Records  —  The Justice Department is asking Internet companies to keep records on the Web-surfing activities of their customers to aid law enforcement, and may propose legislation to force them to do so.  —  The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation …
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Joseph Menn / Los Angeles Times:
Online Privacy Again at Issue
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The Raw Story:
Graphic photographs show bodies of civilians killed in Ishaqi, Iraq  —  Photographs taken by Agence France Presse but not distributed by major US media outlets show the bodies of Iraqi civilians killed in March in a home in Ishaqi, Iraq.  Those photographs — may of which are graphic and show …
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Associated Press:
Bush to back gay marriage ban amendment  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush will promote a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday, the eve of a scheduled Senate vote on the cause that is dear to his conservative backers.  —  The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages.
Brian C. Anderson / Opinion Journal:
The Brain Workout  —  In praise of video games.  —  A few weeks ago, Sony and Nintendo both revealed their newest video-game systems to great fanfare, complete with slicker graphics and motion sensors.  But not everyone was pleased.  An increasingly noisy chorus of critics charge …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
AP Replies to TPMmuckraker Criticisms on Reid Story  —  Wednesday evening I received a lengthy reply from the Associated Press responding to my criticisms of John Solomon's initial piece on Harry Reid - I called Solomon, who passed me off to AP's corporate media relations.
Charles R. Morris / New York Times:
Freakoutonomics  —  LAST month saw one of the sharpest drops in consumer confidence since the recessions of 1979-1982.  But those were truly dreadful times.  Oil prices tripled, rates on home mortgages shot into the mid-teens, the stock market was a disaster area and unemployment rates reached double digits.
Associated Press:
LA reporter allegedly attacked for investigating charter school  —  LOS ANGELES - Police were investigating a KABC-AM reporter's accusations that a man assaulted him and grabbed his tape recorder after he attempted to interview the principal of a charter school that a host at his radio station said was "openly segregationist."
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
State G.O.P. Convention Rebuffs Weld and Backs Faso for Governor  —  HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., June 1 — William F. Weld, the former Massachusetts governor, suffered a major rebuke from his own party on Thursday when he lost his bid to win Republicans' backing in the race for governor of New York …
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Dishonor  —  A major new magazine has been launched in the US and Canada by one of the worlds largest magazine publishing empires.  HFM is a French company that also publishes such well known periodicals as: American Photo, Boating, Car and Driver, Cycle World, ELLE, ELLE Decor, ELLEgirl …
Associated Press:
Federal judge allows lawsuit against NSA  —  DETROIT —A federal judge will go ahead with hearings in a legal challenge to a warrantless domestic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency.  —  U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor also criticized the Justice Department …
 
 
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