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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
34 youths among 56 dead in Israeli attack — QANA, Lebanon - An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. It was the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Israeli air strike kills 54 — An Israeli air strike killed at least 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, in the southern village of Qana today, police said. It was the bloodiest single attack during Israel's 19-day-old war on Hezbollah. — The attack prompted the Lebanese government …
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Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
60 killed in IAF strike on Qana in southern Lebanon — At least 60 civilians were killed on Sunday after the IAF fired missiles at buildings in the southern Lebanse twon of Qana. — Some 35 bodies have been recovered from a building that collapsed, but more were still stuck under the rubble, Lebanon's official news agency reported.
BBC:
Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid — More than 54 civilians, at least 34 of them children, have been killed in a town in south Lebanon in the deadliest Israeli strike of the conflict so far. — Displaced families had been sheltering in the basement of a house in Qana, which was crushed after a direct hit.
Chris Tinkler / NEWS.com.au:
These are the pictures that damn Hezbollah — Graphic images smuggled out from Lebanon show how Hezbollah is waging war amid suburban homes. — A stream of images, obtained exclusively by the News Ltd, depicts how the extremists are using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy calibre weapons.
Ronny Sofer / Ynetnews:
France, Lebanon to deploy to border with Israel — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at his Jerusalem residence Saturday night; Rice reveals initial plans for international peacekeeping force: France, Lebanese army to take part, and will also guard Syria-Lebanon border.
Chris Link / NEWS.com.au:
Photos that damn Hezbollah — THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia. — The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas …
Haaretz:WORLD REACTIONS: U.K. brands Qana deaths 'quite appalling'
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New York Times:
A Senate Race in Connecticut — Earlier this year, Senator Joseph Lieberman's seat seemed so secure that — legend has it — some people at the Republican nominating convention in Connecticut started making bleating noises when the party picked a presumed sacrificial lamb to run …
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Curt Woodward / Associated Press:
Seattle suspect allegedly ambushed girl — SEATTLE - The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity's foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, the police chief said Saturday.
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William Yardley / New York Times:Police Describe Seattle Shooting as a Hate Crime
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock — MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — Like most pastors who lead thriving evangelical megachurches, the Rev. Gregory A. Boyd was asked frequently to give his blessing — and the church's — to conservative political candidates and causes.
NEWS.com.au:
Lebanon protesters mob PM — VIOLENT scuffles have broken out between police and Lebanese protesters who mobbed Prime Minister John Howard's car as he left the WA Liberal Party conference in Perth. — Mr Howard was leaving the WA Liberal Party state conference when about 200 protesters …
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Edward M. Kennedy / Washington Post:
Roberts and Alito Misled Us — I have had the honor of serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee for 43 years, during which I've participated in confirmation hearings for all the justices who now sit on the Supreme Court. Over that time, my colleagues and I have asked probing questions …
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Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:SENATOR KENNEDY ASSAILS ALITO AND ROBERTS: Senator Ted Kennedy …
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Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
Is housing finally on the way down? — It's sure starting to look that way. — The Chicago Mercantile Exchange now has housing futures contracts, one each for ten cities plus a national average. The May 2007 composite (the furthest-out contract) is 5% below the August 2006 composite.
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn't Even Know You — The 21st-century Keller family. Craig and Sandy are seated at center, with their daughters Kristy Harden, left, and Rachel. In the rear from left are Kim Werk, Craig's sister; Dennis, his brother; and Priscilla Keller Reynolds, his mother.
MSNBC:
Slacker Friday — I've got a new "Think Again" column here called "Bush Bounced, Reporters Follow." — Does Jerusalem Have a Plan For What Comes Afterward? Here. — In "Degrading Behavior," Tom Engelhardt takes up the Israeli air campaign against Lebanon and puts it into the context …
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Families Challenging Religious Influence in Delaware Schools — GEORGETOWN, Del. — After her family moved to this small town 30 years ago, Mona Dobrich grew up as the only Jew in school. Mrs. Dobrich, 39, married a local man, bought the house behind her parents' home and brought up her two children as Jews.
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New York Times:
Partisan Divide on Iraq Exceeds Split on Vietnam — Steve Hart for The New York Times, left; Rod Sanford/Lansing State Journal, via Associated Press — Left, supporters of the Iraq war sang "God Bless America" at a Brooklyn rally in April 2003. A poll shows attitudes dividing starkly on party lines.
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