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Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
17 Terror Suspects Arrested in Toronto — Seventeen Canadian residents were in custody Saturday on terrorism- related charges, including plots to use explosives in attacks on Canadian soil, authorities said. — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they arrested 12 male adults and five youth …
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Timothy Appleby / Globe and Mail:
Terrorism raids sweep Toronto — Police across the Greater Toronto Area launched counterterrorism raids yesterday, arresting at least eight people in a roundup expected to continue overnight and beyond. — "We anticipate more arrests, but not necessarily tonight," an RCMP source said of the arrests …
Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS investigation into a suspected homegrown terror cell — Last night's dramatic police raid and arrest of as many as a dozen men — with more to come — marks the culmination of Canada's largest ever terrorism investigation into an alleged homegrown cell.
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Sasha Nagy / Globe and Mail:
Massive terror attack averted: RCMP — A terror attack potentially three times more devastating than the Oklahoma City bombing has been averted, the RCMP alleged Saturday. — A counterterrorism sweep Friday resulted in the largest arrest ever made by the nation's anti-terrorism forces and raised …
White House:
President's Radio Address — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Next week, the United States Senate will begin debate on a constitutional amendment that defines marriage in the United States as the union of a man and woman. On Monday, I will meet with a coalition of community leaders …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush to Press for U.S. Ban on Same-Sex Marriage — WASHINGTON, June 2 — President Bush is beginning a major push for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, part of a new campaign to appease cultural conservatives who say he and his party abandoned their issues after the 2004 elections.
Los Angeles Times:
Gay Marriage Amendment Getting a Presidential Push — Conservatives who think Bush has buried the issue denounce the planned event as a ruse. — WASHINGTON — The campaign against gay marriage is scheduled to get the full White House treatment on Monday — words from President Bush in front …
Michelle Malkin:
UK TIMES SMEARS OUR MARINES (UPDATED WITH RESPONSE) — Look very carefully at the photo featured in the UK Times's report from June 1, 2006 titled "Massacre Marines blinded by hate:" (big hat tip - Joe G.) — If you are left with the impression that the dead bodies on the ground were massacred …
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Times of London:
Police hunt for lethal chemical suicide vest — A DESPERATE search is under way for a "chemical vest" that a British suicide bomber was ready to deploy in a terror attack on London. — Police fear that the strike, using a home-made chemical device, was imminent after an informant told MI5 …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Opens Door To Dissenters — Aversion to Criticism Appears to Be Fading — When retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey criticized the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war three years ago, he was lambasted as an armchair general and deemed an adversary by the Pentagon.
Dani Dodge / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Busby on defense, says she misspoke — If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: "You don't need papers for voting." — On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words.
New York Times:
Initial Response to Marine Raid Draws Scrutiny — WASHINGTON, June 2 — Marine commanders in Iraq learned within two days of the killings in Haditha last November that Iraqi civilians had died from gunfire, not a roadside bomb as initially reported, but the officers involved saw no reason …
Edmund Blair / Reuters:
Iran says won't stop nuclear work — TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president insisted on his country's right to nuclear technology on Friday despite facing what Washington called a "moment of truth" over a program that could produce atomic weapons. — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments suggested Tehran …
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Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser — Murtha, Reid, and Hillary Clinton are just the latest progressive leaders to face deeply flawed media coverage — but they won't be the last — Last week, we wrote: … The recent media treatment of Sen. John P. Murtha (D-PA), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Rise of Lobbyist Shines a Light on House Ties — WASHINGTON, June 2 — Letitia Hoadley White arrived on Capitol Hill 25 years ago as a 22-year-old receptionist with a bachelor's degree in fashion design, fresh from a job at Women's Wear Daily. — When her boss, Representative Jerry Lewis …
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