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1:15 PM ET, July 3, 2006

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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Mexican Presidential Rivals Both Claim Win in Tight Vote  —  MEXICO CITY, July 2 — Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Felipe Calderón each claimed victory in Mexico's presidential election late Sunday night, even though the country's electoral commission said the race …
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James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Electoral Crisis in Mexico as Top 2 Declare Victory  —  Mexicans voted Sunday in Candelaria Tlapala, near Mexico City.  The election capped the most competitive political race in the nation's history.  —  MEXICO CITY, July 2 — Election officials declared Sunday that they could not immediately determine …
Discussion: Publius Pundit and QandO
Lisa J. Adams / Associated Press:
Mexican candidates each declare victory
Discussion: BBC and The All Spin Zone
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
War on terror ruling worries GOP lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON - Two Republican senators said Sunday that Congress must rein in the Supreme Court ruling that international law applies to the Bush administration's conduct in the war on terror.  —  Thursday's Supreme Court decision embracing Article 3 …
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister, TPMCafe and PSoTD
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Associated Press:
Statement demands prisoner release by 6:00 a.m. Tuesday  —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially rejected on Monday an ultimatum released Monday morning by the kidnappers of IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit that set a 6:00 a.m. Tuesday deadline for the release of Palestinian prisoners.
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Jerusalem Post:
IDF tanks, bulldozers enter N. Gaza
Discussion: Yourish.com and Captain's Quarters
Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
We Need Fewer Secrets  —  The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) turns 40 tomorrow, the day we celebrate our independence.  But this anniversary will not be a day of celebration for the right to information in our country.  Our government leaders have become increasingly obsessed with secrecy.
Associated Press:
Al-Zarqawi's cell phone reportedly yields surprises  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had the phone numbers of senior Iraqi officials stored in his cell phone, according to an Iraqi legislator.  —  Waiel Abdul-Latif, a member of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's party …
Warren E. Leary / New York Times:
Crack Is Found in Shuttle's Foam Insulation  —  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 3 —Inspectors found a crack in the foam insulation of the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank early today.  NASA managers are meeting to determine whether it will affect a planned liftoff Tuesday afternoon, according to the space agency.
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CBS News:
Crack Found In Shuttle Tank's Foam  —  NASA Managers Ponder Scrubbing Planned July 4 Launch  —  (CBS/AP) Inspectors found a 5-inch-long crack in the foam insulation covering the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, and NASA managers were deciding Monday whether to call off the scheduled Fourth of July launch.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Agence France Presse:
Britons tire of cruel, vulgar US: poll  —  LONDON (AFP) - People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.  —  The United States is no longer a symbol …
Discussion: The Glittering Eye and AMERICAblog
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Jason DeParle / New York Times:
On Right and Left, a Push for Government Openness  —  WASHINGTON, July 2 — Exasperated by his party's failure to cut government spending, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, is seeking cyberhelp.  —  Mr. Coburn wants to create a public database, searchable over the Internet …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THEY ALREADY KNEW THE COLONISTS WERE FED UP  —  (Courtesy of reader Les Baitzer.)
Spengler / Asia Times:
The fraud of primitive authenticity  —  Two billion war deaths would have occurred in the 20th century if modern societies suffered the same casualty rate as primitive peoples, according to anthropologist Lawrence H Keeley, who calculates that two-thirds of them were at war continuously …
Discussion: One Hand Clapping
Associated Press:
Preteen mag accused of military pitching  —  PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - Parents and teachers are complaining that the latest issue of a popular magazine for preteens amounts to little more than an early recruitment pitch for the Army.  —  Cobblestone magazine, which is put out by Carus Publishing in Peterborough …
Washington Post:
The Unstoppable Cuban Spring  —  By Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas  —  HAVANA — In March 2003 dozens of leaders of Cuba's Varela Project and other human rights defenders were detained, subjected to summary trials, condemned to many years in prison, and confined in the most inhumane and cruel conditions.
Discussion: Babalu Blog and jameshudnall.com
Christopher Mason / New York Times:
Canada to Upgrade the Military and Its Mobility  —  TORONTO, July 1 — Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government has announced the most aggressive upgrade of Canada's military equipment in decades, laying out new expenditures of $15.3 billion to improve transportation capacities.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
 
 
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
West sets new deadline for Iran: July 12
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Nadav Shragai / Haaretz:
PA television airs clip encouraging children to become shaheeds
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Telegraph:
Reid accused of burying bad news by blocking research
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A Terror Strike, Choreographed on a Computer
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