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Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
Gaza groups ready to deal on cease-fire, release of Shalit — All groups in Gaza, including Hamas, would now accept a cease-fire deal with Israel which would include releasing Gilad Shalit, according to the Palestinian Agriculture Minister, who also heads the coordinating committee of Palestinian organizations there.
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Rice meeting with Olmert in Israel — JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, leading the first high-level U.S. diplomatic mission since war broke out in Lebanon, said Tuesday the time has come for a new Middle East and an urgent end to the violence hanging over the region.
Haaretz:
Lebanese parliament speaker rejects Rice cease-fire proposal — Nabih Beri, Lebanon's parliament speaker and Hezbollah's de facto negotiator, rejected proposals brought by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, inisisting a cease-fire must precede any talks about resolving Hezbollah's presence …
Rich Noyes / NewsBusters.org:
CNN's Robertson Now Admits: Hezbollah 'Had Control' of His Anti-Israel Piece — Better late than never? On CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday, CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson added all of the caveats and disclaimers that he should have included in his story last week …
New York Times:
Nations Reluctant to Commit Troops to Lebanon — PARIS, July 24 — Support is building quickly for an international military force to be placed in southern Lebanon, but there remains a small problem: where will the troops come from? — The United States has ruled out its soldiers participating …
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
Democratic candidates concerned about fate if Lieberman loses — WATERBURY, Conn. —As U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman tried to rally his supporters with a campaign visit from former President Bill Clinton Monday, some Democrats acknowledged they're worried a Lieberman primary loss could hurt other Democratic candidates on the November ballot.
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Peter Brown / Real Clear Politics:
Democrats Lose if Lieberman is Defeated — The most interesting question about the possibility that Connecticut Democrats could deny Joseph Lieberman renomination is whether that would help or hurt the senator's political prospects. Or, for that matter, the Democratic Party's.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Former President Joins Rally for Lieberman — WATERBURY, Conn., July 24 — Former president Bill Clinton joined a stage full of Connecticut officials Monday night in testifying to the Democratic credentials of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, whose 18-year tenure is threatened by the primary challenge of antiwar insurgent Ned Lamont.
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Firedoglake, The Left Coaster, Ned Lamont for Senate, The Right Angle, LamontBlog and DownWithTyranny!
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
U.S. Says It Knew of Pakistani Reactor Plan — Congress Learned of Nation's Nuclear Expansion From Independent Analysts — The Bush administration acknowledged yesterday that it had long known about Pakistan's plans to build a large plutonium-production reactor, but it said the White House …
Tristero / Hullabaloo:
ABA Report On Signing Statements — Here's a link to a PDF of the American Bar Association's report on Bush's use of signing statments. Anyone who doubts we are living under an early American form of fascism need only read this little excerpt and ponder how far we have moved from the quaint notion …
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Jeff Douglas / Associated Press:
Massive blackout continues in St. Louis — AP — _ ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Nearly a quarter-million homes and businesses still had no electricity Monday as the city struggled to recover from last week's devastating thunderstorms. — The blackout has kept air conditioners from cooling homes since Wednesday …
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Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
From Planning to Warfare to Occupation, How Iraq Went Wrong — The title of this devastating new book about the American war in Iraq says it all: "Fiasco." That is the judgment that Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, passes on the Bush administration's decision …
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Billmon / Whiskey Bar:Pity Party — Washington Post reporter Tom Ricks thinks …
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Reuters:
Talks on WTO's Doha round collapse — U.S. presidential 'fast track' trade authority to expire in 2007. — GENEVA (Reuters) — Talks by major trade powers to save the World Trade Organization's Doha Round collapsed on Monday, leaving the future of negotiations on a global free trade deal in doubt.
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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
HILLARY GATHERS AN ARMY — INCLUDES 3G FOR STYLIST — July 24, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign army has increased its ranks to 50 staffers and more than 20 consultants, specialists in everything from fund-raising to speech-writing to hairstyling and makeup.
Associated Press:
UN official accuses Hezbollah of 'cowardly blending' among civilians — LARNACA, Cyprus - The UN humanitarian chief accused Hezbollah late Monday of "cowardly blending" among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds during two weeks of cross-border violence with Israel.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The New King of Big TV's Is Queen-Size — Will buying a TV set one day involve choosing between full, queen and king sizes? — Panasonic said last week that it would begin selling a 103-inch flat-panel plasma television in the United States in time for the holiday season.
New York Times:
Raise Wages, Not Walls — THERE are two approaches to illegal immigration currently being debated in Congress. One, supported by the House, emphasizes border control and law enforcement, including a wall along the Mexican border and increased border patrols.
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