memeorandum: FBI Shadowed Playwright Arthur Miller (Hillel Italie/Associated Press)

9:05 AM ET, June 21, 2006

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House Plan May Delay Immigration Overhaul — WASHINGTON, June 20 — In a decision that puts an overhaul of immigration laws in serious doubt, House Republican leaders said Tuesday that they would hold summer hearings around the nation on the politically volatile subject before trying …

Washington Post:

GOP Plans Hearings on Issue of Immigrants — In a move that could bury President Bush's high-profile effort to overhaul immigration law until after the midterm elections, House GOP leaders yesterday announced a series of field hearings during the August recess, pushing off final negotiations on a bill until fall at the earliest.

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Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:
GOP's Call for Hearings Puts Immigration Overhaul in Limbo

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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

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Associated Press:
Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Killed in Airstrike Near Where U.S. Troops Went Missing

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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

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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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Alan W. Dowd / TCS Daily:
Star Wars: The Sequel

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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.

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters: French Imperialism — A Paris Criminal Tribunal ruling …

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 …

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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mcall.com:
Santorum plays catch-up, tries to woo female voters

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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:

Al-Qaida video shows alleged 20th hijacker — WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida has identified a would-be 20th hijacker for the Sept. 11 attacks as a Saudi operative who was killed in a 2004 shootout with his country's security forces. — In a statement accompanying a new video …

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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:

Lieberman Vs. the Democrats — Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman is as seasoned a pol as anyone can find, but he seems to have forgotten the very purpose of elections. — In a remarkable interview he recently gave to The Post's David S. Broder [op-ed, June 18], the Democrats' 2000 vice …

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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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Diana Jean Schemo / New York Times:

Dartmouth Alumni Battles Become a Spectator Sport — HANOVER, N.H. — Back when Daniel Webster, class of 1801, defeated an attempt by the governor to take control of the Dartmouth College board, his argument before the Supreme Court gave rise to a line famous among Dartmouth students: "It is, sir, as I have said, a small college.

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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:

FBI Shadowed Playwright Arthur Miller — NEW YORK — In the summer of 1956, playwright Arthur Miller married screen idol Marilyn Monroe in a Jewish ceremony, an event of high-level gossip for much of the world and of high-level curiosity for the U.S. government.