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9:10 AM ET, July 5, 2006

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Associated Press:
North Korea tests 7th missile amid furor  —  SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea test-fired another missile Wednesday, intensifying the furor ignited when the reclusive regime launched at least six missiles, including a long-range Taepodong, earlier in the day.
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Joseph Coleman / Associated Press:
World condemns North Korean missile tests  —  SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea test-fired a seventh missile Wednesday, intensifying the furor that began when the reclusive regime defied international protests by launching a long-range missile and at least five shorter-range rockets earlier in the day.
StrategyPage:
Forget the Missiles, This is Even More Bizarre  —  July 5, 2006: While everyone's attention was focused on North Korean missiles, the real story is the North Korean economy.  It continues to fall apart, and more North Koreans are unhappy about that.  Worse yet, more North Koreans are finding …
New York Times:
6 Missiles Fired by North Korea; Tests Protested  —  TOKYO, Wednesday, July 5 — North Korea test-fired at least six missiles over the Sea of Japan on Wednesday morning, including an intercontinental ballistic missile that apparently failed or was aborted 42 seconds after it was launched, White House and Pentagon officials said.
Washington Post:
North Korea Test-Fires Seventh Missile  —  Launch Comes After Controversial Long-Range Rocket Fails; U.N. Session Set After U.S., Japan Condemn Action  —  North Korea test-fired another missile today, at least its seventh such launch in 48 hours, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters in Tokyo.
New York Times:
North Korea Test-Fires Several Missiles  —  North Korea test-fired several missiles in the early hours of Wednesday, July 5 (Tuesday afternoon Eastern time), apparently including the Taepodong-2, the long-range missile at the heart of diplomatic tensions with the United States and its allies …
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:   U.S. chides N. Korea on missile testing
CNN:
Sources: North Korea tests missiles
Washington Post:
N. Korea Test-Fires Long-Range Missile
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:   North Korea Fires at Least 3 Missiles
Bloomberg:   Yen Falls to Record Low Against Euro on North Korean Missiles
BBC:
Heightened alert  —  According to US officials, the North fired …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Signaling Shift in Stance on Immigration  —  WASHINGTON, July 4 — On the eve of nationwide hearings that could determine the fate of his immigration bill, President Bush is signaling a new willingness to negotiate with House Republicans in an effort to revise the stalled legislation before Election Day.
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lieberman Tries to Reassert Commitment to Democrats  —  WILLIMANTIC, Conn., July 4 — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman tried to reassert his commitment to the Democratic Party today, after announcing on Monday that he would run independently for reelection if he loses the state Democratic primary next month.
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Matt Wells / BBC:
Lieberman fights for political life
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
In Ramadi, Fetid Quarters and Unrelenting Battles  —  RAMADI, Iraq, July 4 — The Government Center in the middle of this devastated town resembles a fortress on the wild edge of some frontier: it is sandbagged, barricaded, full of men ready to shoot, surrounded by rubble and enemies eager to get inside.
Discussion: Mia Culpa and Needlenose
Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Olmert Issues Veiled Threat Against Syria  —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday ignored a deadline to begin releasing Palestinian prisoners and instead issued a veiled threat against Syria, vowing to strike "those who sponsor" the militants in the Gaza Strip who seized a young Israeli soldier.
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Reuters:   Israel warns of "long war" over soldier
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Addressing Soldiers, Bush Denounces Early Pullout in Iraq  —  FORT BRAGG, N.C., July 4 — In a rousing Independence Day speech to hundreds of soldiers and their families, President Bush warned on Tuesday that setting an artificial timetable for withdrawal of Iraq would be "a terrible mistake" …
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth  —  "Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the next century, but — regardless of whether it is or isn't — we won't do much about it.  We will (I am sure) argue ferociously over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it.
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
Former regime said at core of insurgency  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government's list of the 41 most wanted fugitives suggests that former members of Saddam Hussein's regime form the backbone of the insurgency despite attention paid to the role of religious extremists such as al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Judicial nominee asked about club  —  Just six months after quitting the all-male social club to which he belonged for 50 years, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is questioning one of President Bush's nominees to the federal bench about his membership in an all-male dining club.
Chantal Valery / Agence France Presse:
US 'flag epidemic' reaches peak on Fourth of July  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - It's a true epidemic: the red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes banners are everywhere in the United States - on house facades, front lawns, cars and clothes.  —  Hitting an high point on the July 4 US Independence Day holiday …
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