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Tim Shipman / Daily Mail:
Army chief declares war on Blair: 'We must quit Iraq soon' — The head of the Army is calling for British troops to withdraw from Iraq "soon" or risk catastophic consequences for both Iraq and British society. — In a devastating broadside at Tony Blair's foreign policy …
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BBC:
General seeks UK Iraq withdrawal — The head of the British Army has said the presence of UK armed forces in Iraq "exacerbates the security problems". — In an interview in the Daily Mail, Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff, is quoted as saying the British should "get out some time soon".
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Warner's Statement: "I Have Decided Not To Run For President" — Nine months ago, I left the office of Governor in Virginia. I was immensely proud of what we had accomplished. We faced historic challenges and got real results. — Upon leaving office, I committed all my time and energy …
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Michael Barone / US News:
Mark Warner Bows Out — Mark Warner announced this morning that he's not running for president. As Prince Metternich asked when informed that the Russian ambassador had suddenly dropped dead, "What can have been his motive?" I suppose it was a calculation that he was just not going to overtake Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Warner Won't Run for Presidency in '08 — Former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) announced this morning that he will not seek the presidency in 2008, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. — In a statement released shortly before his 11 a.m. press conference here, Warner said …
Larry J. Sabato / centerforpolitics.org:
A "Deep Blue Sea" in the 2006 Midterms? — Small Craft Advisory becomes Gale Warning for GOP — Just a few weeks ago, President Bush and the GOP appeared to be staging a remarkable comeback that would have enabled the Republicans to retain their congressional majorities.
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
BREAKING—New House polls will show looming Democratic landslide — I usually despise blog posts with the word "BREAKING" in the title, in all caps, but in this rare case I actually am the person breaking the story, so I think it is justiifed. — The new Majority Watch from Constituent Dynamics will be released in a few minutes.
Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Russia, China Oppose N. Korea Sanctions — UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia and China on Thursday opposed tough sanctions the U.S. wants to impose against North Korea this week for its claimed nuclear test, saying they want more time to work out a more moderate response to Pyongyang's nuclear brinkmanship.
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James Vicini / Reuters:
U.S. brings first treason case in over 50 years — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California-born convert to Islam, accused of making a series of al Qaeda propaganda videos, became on Wednesday the first American charged with treason since the World War Two era, U.S. Justice Department officials said.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
A Newspaper Investigates Its Future — Newspapers are all looking for ways to gain readers, and many have hired consultants to help them. In an unusual twist, The Los Angeles Times is looking to chart its future by using its own reporters and editors, who rank among the best investigators in the business.
Washington Post:
Senate Report: Five Nonprofit Groups Sold Clout to Abramoff — Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, "perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a report issued today.
Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The Coming Gay Republican Purge — Immediately after the Mark Foley scandal broke, some anti-Republican gay-rights activists composed a memo containing the names of closeted gay Republican Congressional staffers and sent it to leading Christian-right advocacy groups.
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Allen's Advisers Try Mute-Button Strategy — RICHMOND — Weeks after George Allen 's mouth got him into serious trouble, the senator's advisers have apparently decided that he should shut up. — At least when it comes to talking directly to the media, that is.
NY Daily News:
Where I stand on Iraq — Sen. Clinton says how Bush went wrong and offers her prescription for the war — We have to deal with the Iraq we have, not the Iraq we wish we had. And the Iraq we have is a deteriorating, violent conflict that, if not technically a civil war, is about as close as you can get.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Ponder Relationship of Federal and State Courts — Whether a murder defendant's right to a fair trial was violated when the judge permitted the victim's relatives to sit behind the prosecutor, wearing buttons with the victim's picture on them, was a question in a case argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
WKYC-TV:
Poll: Brown increases lead over DeWine in Senate race — A SurveyUSA poll finds Democrat Sherrod Brown leading incumbent Republican Mike DeWine. — In an election for United States Senator from Ohio today, 10/12/2006, Brown defeats DeWine, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WCPO-TV Cincinnati …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Times Editorial Page Editor Steps Down — Gail Collins, the first woman to run the editorial page of The New York Times, is stepping down Jan. 1 and will be succeeded by Andrew Rosenthal, the deputy editor of the page. Ms. Collins is taking a leave of absence from the paper to write a book …