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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
U.S. weighs shootdown of N. Korea missile — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is weighing responses to a possible North Korean missile test that include attempting to shoot it down in flight over the Pacific, defense officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Agence France Presse:
US troops kill Zarqawi's 'right-hand man' — The US military says it has killed the "right-hand man" of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. — Major General William Caldwell says Iraqi Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad.
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Nikolas K. Gvosdev / The Washington Realist:
New Details on Al Masri — Guest post by Alexis Debat, terrorism consultant for ABC News, a senior fellow at The Nixon Center and a contributing editor to The National Interest — The mystery man named again today by US authorities as a successor to Abu Musab al Zarqawi is an Egyptian …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
On Iraq, Kerry Again Leaves Democrats Fuming — WASHINGTON, June 20 — When Senator John Kerry was their presidential nominee in 2004, Democrats fervently wished he would express himself firmly about the Iraq war. — Mr. Kerry has found his resolve. But it has not made his fellow Democrats any happier.
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kerry extends troop withdrawal date — Pushes 2007 deadline in proposal to remove US soldiers from Iraq — WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry is pushing back by six months the deadline he wants to set for removing combat troops from Iraq, as he seeks to build support in the Senate for his plan for troop withdrawal.
David Espo / Associated Press:
GOP leaders: No immigration bill this year — WASHINGTON - In a defeat for President Bush, Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday that broad immigration legislation is all but doomed for the year, a victim of election-year concerns in the House and conservatives' implacable opposition …
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Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:GOP's Call for Hearings Puts Immigration Overhaul in Limbo
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Houston Chronicle:
Bodies of U.S. soldiers show signs of torture — The U.S. military recovered the booby-trapped bodies of two missing soldiers today, and Iraqi officials said the Americans were tortured and killed in a "barbaric" way. An insurgent group claimed the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq executed the men personally.
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Christine Olley / Philadelphia Daily News:
In plain English, Rick backs Vento — INJECTING HIMSELF in the middle of a South Philly controversy as burning- hot as a stainless-steel grill, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (left) made an unscheduled stop at Geno's Steaks last night to wolf down a cheesesteak and stand behind its owner.
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Adam Sage / Times of London:
Soldiers of fortune go free as judge denounces Chirac over island coup — COVERT attempts by President Chirac to exert influence over Africa were exposed by a French court yesterday, when it denounced his secret services for conniving with a band of mercenaries in a coup in the tiny Comoros Islands.
Eric Rich / Washington Post:
Merrill Apparently Shot Himself On the Bay — Philip Merrill, the prominent publisher and former diplomat whose body was found floating in the Chesapeake Bay on Monday, suffered from a heart condition and apparently took his own life, his family said last night.
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Lawyer Representing Saddam Hussein Killed — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - One of Saddam Hussein's lawyers was shot to death Wednesday after he was abducted from his home by men wearing police uniforms in Baghdad, court and police officials said. — Khamis al-Obeidi, who represented Saddam …
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
An A-to-Z Book of Conservatism Now Weighs In — WASHINGTON, June 20 — It has red states and blond pundits; home schoolers and The Human Life Review; originalists, monetarists, federalists and evangelists; and no shortage of people named Kristol. — Now American conservatism can claim another mark …
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Army Cancels Contract for Iraqi Prison — BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 19 — The Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that it had canceled a $99.1 million contract with Parsons, one of the largest companies working in Iraq, to build a prison north of Baghdad after the firm fell more than two years behind schedule …
White House:
Vice President's Remarks at the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon Followed by Q&A — Washington, D.C. — THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you all very much. I appreciate the warm welcome. It's good to be here this afternoon.
Washington Post:
New Yorkers Don't Let a Few Laws Get in the Way — NEW YORK — Banker Ernest Aning has grabbed a sandwich and he's in a hurry to get back to his office and — what? He should walk to the corner and wait at the light? — Right. — Aning cuts across the middle of 34th Street (four lanes …
Sigfrid Rydquist / ABCNEWS:
National Guard Called In to Fight Big Easy Crime — City Has Seen 53 Killings This Year — NEW ORLEANS, June 20, 2006 — Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco has pledged to dispatch the National Guard and state police to the beleaguered city. — The move answers a plea from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin …
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