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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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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
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 …
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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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush Accuses Iran of Dragging Its Feet — President Bush on Wednesday accused Iran of dragging its feet on a Western incentive package aimed at getting Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment activity. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said earlier in the day that his country will respond …
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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.
William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
North Korea to Washington: Love Us — The South Korea government now says it not see a North Korean missile launch as being imminent. The North itself hints that it is just looking for attention and dialogue with Washington. Experts in the region agree that Pyongyang has everything to lose …
Associated Press:
Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Killed in Airstrike Near Where U.S. Troops Went Missing — BAGHDAD, Iraq — A key Al Qaeda in Iraq leader described as the group's "religious emir" was killed in a U.S. airstrike hours before two American soldiers went missing and in the same area, the military said Tuesday.
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AKA GayPatriotWest / Gay Patriot:
Murder & Media Manipulation: Al-Qaeda's Strategy in Iraq — Since I first learned of the murder of the two U.S. soldiers whose booby-trapped bodies were recovered earlier today, I've ben trying to find words to express my outrage at this atrocity. Simply put, it shows the barbarity of our adversary …
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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.
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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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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
Kim Zetter / Salon:
Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic? — Salon exclusive: Two former AT&T employees say the telecom giant has maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002. Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation.
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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 …
Daniel McGrory / Times of London:
British suicide bomber 'in link to New York mosque' — AN AMERICAN al-Qaeda operative who was a close associate of the leader of the July 7 bombers was recruited at a New York mosque that British militants helped to run. — British radicals regularly travelled to the Masjid Fatima Islamic Centre …
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