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USA Today:
'New Direction' is new theme for Democratic plan — WASHINGTON — Democratic House and Senate leaders are planning to reduce the cost of student loans and prescription drugs, raise the minimum wage and launch an effort to develop alternative fuels if they win back control of Congress.
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Agence France Presse:
Democrats in disarray as Bush basks in glow of Iraq trip — US President George W. Bush's triumphant return from his unannounced visit in Iraq found opposition Democrats more divided than ever on US policy in the wartorn country, and how best to capitalize on administration missteps there.
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kerry demands US troop pullout — Regrets his vote for war resolution — WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Liberal Activists Boo Clinton
Liberal Activists Boo Clinton
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Schumer: Dems Have Their 8th — At a briefing for the Washington, D.C. political press corps today, DSCC chair Chuck Schumer was in a mood to marvel and brag. Last night, with the victory of Jim Webb, Democrats finally found their eighth competitive Senate contest.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
In Connecticut, Lamont Closes the Gap
In Connecticut, Lamont Closes the Gap
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Editor and Publisher:
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Orders U.S. Reporters to Exit Guantanamo — NEW YORK In the aftermath of the three suicides at the notorious Guantanamo prison facility in Cuba last Saturday, reporters with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald were ordered by the office of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to leave the island today.
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Mourad Benchellali / New York Times:
Detainees in Despair — I WAS released from the United States military's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in July 2004. As I was about to board a plane that would take me home to France, the last detainee I saw was a young Yemeni. He was overwhelmed by emotion.
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Bombing kills 4 amid Baghdad crackdown — BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed four people and clashes broke out in two Sunni Arab strongholds Wednesday after tens of thousands of Iraqi troops fanned out across Baghdad in a major security crackdown aimed at ending the violence that has devastated the capital.
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Michelle Malkin:
THE CAMP PENDLETON 8 — ***update: We've captured and posted the video of Hillary getting booed as she asks progressives to support the troops. Guess they won't be helping out the Camp Pendleton 8...LGF asks: What's wrong with Marine brass? My column this week calls attention to the Camp Pendleton 8 …
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NY Daily News:
It's 'Putdown With Keith Olbermann' — Now that Dan Abrams has given up his MSNBC show to run the third-place cable news outlet, he might want to focus on the rising tensions between two of his prime-time personalities: Keith Olbermann and Rita Cosby. — Olbermann, whose …
White House:
Press Conference of the President — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Thank you. I've just returned from Baghdad, and I was inspired to be able to visit the capital of a free and democratic Iraq. — It was a pleasure to meet face-to-face with the Prime Minister.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Top Bush Adviser to Step Down — Michael J. Gerson, one of President Bush's most trusted advisers and author of nearly all of his most famous public words during the past seven years, plans to step down in the next couple weeks in a decision that colleagues believe will leave a huge hole in the White House at a critical period.
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New York Post:
RUDY GOES NUCLEAR — FORMULA FOR '08 SUCCESS — June 14, 2006 — A small gathering in Mid town yesterday got a sneak peek at Rudy Giuliani's formula as he gears up for a likely 2008 presidential run. That formula: one-third leadership, one-third technocratic centrist and one-third radical conservative reformer.
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Boehner On The Contrasts GOPers Will Try To Draw With Dems — House Maj. Leader John Boehner (R-OH), in a "confidential" memo to his caucus, previews the distinctions GOPers will draw with Dems as the debate over Iraq gets underway. The House will consider a resolution equating the war in Iraq with the broader war on terror.
David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times:
An English-Only Beef in a Cheesesteak Joint? Comin' Right Up — PHILADELPHIA — The sign contains just eight words and is hardly big enough to wrap around a cheesesteak. But here in South Philadelphia, home of the cheesesteak, the sign that Joey Vento posted at Geno's Steaks speaks volumes.
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
FEMA funds spent on divorce, sex change — WASHINGTON - Houston divorce lawyer Mark Lipkin says he can't recall anyone paying for his services with a FEMA debit card, but congressional investigators say one of his clients did just that. — The $1,000 payment was just one example cited …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Prison We Need to Escape — When I hear U.S. officials describe the suicides of three Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay last Saturday as "asymmetric warfare" and "a good PR move," I know it's time to close that camp — not just because of what it's doing to the prisoners but because of how it is dehumanizing the American captors.
Tom Harris / canadafreepress.com:
Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe — "The Inconvenient Truth" is indeed inconvenient to alarmists — "Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth" …