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11:50 AM ET, July 6, 2006

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MSNBC:
NBC: N. Korea prepares 2nd missile test  —  The revelations from South Korean media follow Wednesday's confirmation by the United States that it had prepared its missile interceptors to meet a specific threat - North Korea's launch of a long-range missile said to be capable of reaching Alaska.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
NEWS ANALYSIS  —  Few Good Choices in Standoff  —  The Bush administration has tried to ignore North Korea, then, reluctantly, to engage it, and then to squeeze its bankers in a manner intended to make the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, personally feel the pinch.  —  Yet none of these steps in the past six years has worked.
Examiner:
Where are 'Star Wars' critics now?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - North Korea's threatening spate of missile launches — including an unsuccessful try with an advanced version of its Taepodong 2 Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that is capable …
Washington Post:
A Driven President Faces a World of Crises  —  From deteriorating security in Afghanistan and Somalia to mayhem in the Middle East, confrontation with Iran and eroding relations with Russia, the White House suddenly sees crisis in every direction.  —  North Korea's long-range missile test Tuesday …
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
Behind the Iron Curtain
Discussion: TigerHawk and Dean's World
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Decision reached on Yale Taliban; Update: Talibanned  —  Just got an e-mail from Clinton Watson Taylor of the "Nail Yale" blog, which is currently offline while Town Hall works out the bugs.  A reporter from the New York Times called him this afternoon for reaction to the news …
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Alan Finder / New York Times:
A Taliban Past, and a Cloudy Yale Future  —  A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student's financial supporters said yesterday.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
N.Y. Court Says Lawmakers Should Consider Gay Marriage  —  The New York Court of Appeals ruled this morning that the state Constitution does not guarantee a right to marriage for same-sex couples, and that state lawmakers, not the courts, are better suited to consider the issue.
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Newsday:
NY court rules against gay marriage
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Mexican See-Saw Tips Towards Calderón  —  Trailing by 100th of a Percent, Obrador Stirs Fears of Violence  —  MEXICO CITY, July 5 — It took all night, but Felipe Calderón is back on top in Mexico's see-saw of a presidential race.  —  Calderón, a free-trade booster …
Discussion: Majikthise and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Henry Allen / Washington Post:
Ken Lay's Last Evasion  —  To Some, CEO Is Cheating Them One More Time  —  Ah, Kenneth Lay of Enron: America hardly knew you before your trial, but learned after your big-hammer jury conviction that you had left countless suckers broke, employees cheated and stockholders betrayed.
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Eric M. Weiss / Washington Post:
Consultant Breached FBI's Computers  —  Frustrated by Bureaucracy, Hacker Says Agents Approved and Aided Break-Ins  —  A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees …
Washington Post:
Splits Over Immigration Reform On Display From Coast to Coast  —  PHILADELPHIA, July 5 — House and Senate Republicans sparred over immigration in hearings on opposite coasts Wednesday, holding firm to their starkly different viewpoints on what has become one of the most intractable and divisive issues to confront the GOP in years.
Discussion: PostWatch and Daily Pundit
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Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
NYC Mayor Says U.S. Depends on Immigrants
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Senate Colleagues to Help Lieberman  —  WASHINGTON — Embattled Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman is getting a little help from his Senate friends as he tries to fend off an anti-Iraq war challenger in an intraparty fight.  —  Sens. Joe Biden of Delaware, Barbara Boxer of California and Ken Salazar …
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Brian Lockhart / Hartford Courant:
Farrell Vows To Support Winner Of Primary
Ray Robison / Fox News:
Iraq How-to Manual Directed Arab Military Operatives In Afghanistan  —  An Arab regime, possibly Iraq, supplied how-to manuals for Arab operatives working throughout Afghanistan before 9/11, and provided military assistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.  —  That's the most likely conclusion drawn …
Discussion: Confederate Yankee and Iowa Voice
Michael M. Grynbaum / Boston Globe:
Bloggers battle old-school media for political clout  —  Online journals gaining greater influence, scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON — When a writer for The New Republic, the 92-year-old doyen of elite Washington opinion journals, accused the nation's most prominent political blogger of using …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Eschaton
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Touchy Topic: Boomer in Chief Hits the Big 6-0  —  WASHINGTON, July 5 — Let us now peek into the psyche of America's most powerful baby boomer, George W. Bush.  —  He is not given to self-analysis — "George is not an overly introspective person," his wife, Laura, once said with dry understatement …
Discussion: Wizbang and Outside The Beltway
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Fallen Soldier Gets a Bronze Star but No Pagan Star  —  At the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the small town of Fernley, Nev., there is a wall of brass plaques for local heroes.  But one space is blank.  There is no memorial for Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart.  —  That's because Stewart was a Wiccan …
Editor and Publisher:
'Stars and Stripes' Lands Exclusive, and Revealing, Bush Interview  —  NEW YORK When Stars and Stripes nabbed anexclusive interview with President Bush on July 4 — aboard Air Force One — it devoted most of the questions to ones submitted by service members.
Discussion: MyDD, Blue Crab Boulevard and Truthdig
 
 
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John J. Fialka / Wall Street Journal:
Energy Independence: A Dry Hole?
Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog:
al-Qaeda releases tape commemorating the 7/7 London bombings (UPDATED)
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Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
House wants Abu Ghraib Whistleblower info
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Italian Intelligence Agents Arrested in CIA Kidnapping Case
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Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
New York Fails at Finding Evidence to Help the Wrongfully Convicted
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