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Yahoo! News:
Number of Republicans declines to 32-month low — The number of Americans calling themselves Republican has fallen to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half years. Just 31.9% of American adults now say they're affiliated with the GOP. That's down from 37.2% in October 2004 and 34.5% at the beginning of 2006.
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USA Today:
GOP lags in key races for Senate — As the Labor Day weekend launches a final nine weeks of campaigning, USA TODAY/Gallup Polls in five key states show Democrats poised to gain Senate seats but facing an uphill battle to regain control. — Democrats seem more likely to carry the House …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Minnesota Senate: In Competitive Race, Klobuchar Still Leads — Klobuchar 47% Kennedy (R) 40% — Though the Kennedy campaign has been throwing everything they've got at the DFL candidate, county attorney Amy Klobuchar is maintaining her edge in the race for U.S. Senate, now besting Republican Mark Kennedy 47% to 40% (see crosstabs).
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Pentagon Releases Grim Report on Iraq — Iraqi casualties soared by more than 50 percent during the roughly three-month period ending in early August, the product of spiraling sectarian clashes and a Sunni-based insurgency that remains "potent and viable," the Pentagon noted today in an comprehensive assessment of security in Iraq.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Pentagon Cites Spike In Violence in Iraq
Pentagon Cites Spike In Violence in Iraq
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Washington Post:
End of an Affair — WE'RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years.
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abc.go.com:
The Path to 9/11 — Starring Harvey Keitel, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Benyaer, Shirley Douglas, Patricia Heaton — The miniseries will take viewers behind closed doors at the CIA, the FBI and the White House and into the world of Richard Clarke, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice …
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Bill Allison / Sunlight Foundation:
Catalog of Ted Stevens' Actions That Have Benefitted Clients of Ben Stevens — From the miracle of Nexis comes this list compiled by Chuck Neubauer, Judy Pasternak and Richard T. Cooper of the Los Angeles Times in June 2003 of Sen. Ted Stevens official actions in the U.S. Senate that have benefited …
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Perfect Storm for the Poor — In Income Data, Something More Damaging Than Katrina — After a week of remembering the horrors of Hurricane Katrina, the most depressing realization is how easily our leaders forgot their fervent promises to lift up our nation's poorest citizens.
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Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
Where's Mao? Chinese Revise History Books — When high school students in Shanghai crack their history textbooks this fall they may be in for a surprise. The new standard world history text drops wars, dynasties and Communist revolutions in favor of colorful tutorials on economics, technology, social customs and globalization.
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Jim Wolf / Reuters:
Interceptor downs missile in test over Pacific — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military shot down a target ballistic missile over the Pacific on Friday in the widest test of its emerging antimissile shield in 18 months, the Defense Department announced. — The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency …
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
A Younger India Is Flexing Its Industrial Brawn — Rolls of steel weighing up to 30 metric tons are loaded onto ships at Hazira, India. Steel shipped by the Essar Group to the United States is put to a variety of uses like construction projects and mountings for car engines.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrats Target Rumsfeld — Lawmakers to Seek a Vote of No Confidence in Defense Secretary — Under assault from Republicans on issues of national security, congressional Democrats are planning to push for a vote of no confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this month as part …
John Dickerson / Slate:
Rudy Hits the Campaign Trail — IS GIULIANI VICIOUS ENOUGH TO WIN THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION? — With the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to check up on Rudy Giuliani. He is the last remaining political action figure from that tragedy …
Felix Doligosa Jr. / Rocky Mountain News:
Saudi gets long sentence — Man was convicted of sexual assaults on housekeeper — CENTENNIAL - Sniffles and sobs resonated in a packed courtroom Thursday as a Saudi man convicted of sexually assaulting his Indonesian housekeeper was sentenced Thursday to 20 years to life in prison.
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Jobless Rate Dips in August — Hiring perked up in August as employers added 128,000 jobs, pulling down the unemployment rate to 4.7 percent, sending a Labor Day message that the economic expansion still has staying power. — The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department Friday …
Business Week:
Nightmare Mortgages — They promise the American Dream: A home of your own — with ultra-low rates and payments anyone can afford. Now, the trap has sprung — For cash-strapped homeowners, it was a pitch they couldn't refuse: Refinance your mortgage at a bargain rate and cut your payments in half.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Friday Line: U.S. House Races — The silly season is upon us. Television ads are hitting the airwaves, mailboxes are stuffed with direct mail appeals and average voters are beginning to pay attention to the campaign. — Volatility is the rule in these finals two months …
Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Annan: Syria to enforce arms embargo — DAMASCUS, Syria - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday that Syria has pledged to step up border patrols and work with the Lebanese army to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah. — Annan also said that he had asked Syrian President Bashar Assad …
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