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TMZ.com:
Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade — Alleged Cover Up — TMZ has learned that Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps.
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Michelle Caruso / NY Daily News:
Mel gives cops hell — Report: Drunken Gibson threatens officer in rant — LOS ANGELES - A blitzed Mel Gibson launched into an obscenity-laced tirade when he was busted on suspicion of drunken driving early yesterday, threatening an officer and making anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks, according to a police report.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Mel Gibson Self-Destructs? — Here's a page from what looks like a police report about Mel Gibson's alleged rants about "the Jews" after an arrest for drunk-driving, cited by the New York Daily News (click on the image below for a larger version) and originally reported by the celebrity news site, TMZ.com.
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CNN:
Gibson apologizes for behavior — 'I disgraced myself,' star says after 'horrific relapse' and arrest — LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Actor and director Mel Gibson issued a statement on Saturday, apologizing to deputies for his "belligerent behavior" when he was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Malibu the day before.
Sandy Cohen / Associated Press:Mel Gibson apologizes for DUI arrest
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
After Sluggish Start, Lieberman Heeded Warnings of Trouble — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman commissioned a poll in January as he prepared for his fourth campaign for the Senate, and the results were sobering. Mr. Lieberman was tied against a hypothetical primary opponent …
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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Big List Of Big Givers Bolsters Lieberman — Lamont Far Back In Fundraising — WASHINGTON — Every day a fax machine in a Senate office spits out lists of the latest big donors to the Democratic primary campaigns of Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont. — The Lieberman list is long …
White House:
President Bush and Prime Minister Blair of the United Kingdom Participate in Press Availability — PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you all. Prime Minister Tony Blair, welcome back to the White House. As you know, we've got a close relationship. You tell me what you think.
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Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Bush submits new terror detainee bill — WASHINGTON - U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill.
James Glanz / New York Times:
Audit Finds U.S. Hid Actual Cost of Iraq Projects — The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Minimum Wage Hike Passed By House — The House last night voted to boost the minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade while also permanently slashing the estate tax, a coupling that GOP leaders calculated might garner enough Senate support to become law.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Grand Jury Probes News Leaks at NSA — A federal grand jury in Alexandria is investigating unauthorized leaks of classified information and has issued a subpoena to a fired National Security Agency officer who has acknowledged talking with journalists about the agency's warrantless surveillance program …
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Associated Press:
Iranian Leader Bans Usage of Foreign Words — TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
2008 May Test Clinton's Bond With McCain — Two summers ago, on a Congressional trip to Estonia, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting that the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest. — Delighted, the leader …
Editor and Publisher:
Gallup: Current Negativism on Iraq Echoes View of Vietnam War in 1970 — NEW YORK An analysis released today by Frank Newport, director of The Gallup Poll, shows that current public wishes for U.S. policy in the Iraq war eerily echo attitudes about the Vietnam war in 1970.
Alison Espach / CNSNews:
Ramsey Clark Plans 'Emergency March' to Stop Israel — (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, alongside various anti-war and Muslim groups, announced plans this week for a "National Emergency March on Washington" to stop what he said was U.S. funding of the "Israeli war machine."
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