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Clinton reaches out to Iowans about 2008 — The senator is calling Democrats to gauge support for a possible White House run. — Sen. Hillary Clinton began making calls Monday to Iowa Democrats about the state's political landscape with an eye toward its 2008 presidential nominating caucuses, aides to Clinton said.
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Obama Meets Party Donors in New York — Senator Barack Obama treaded onto Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's home turf last night to meet with prominent Democratic donors and feel out those who might prefer the sound of President Obama to President Clinton (as in Hillary, not Bill).
Bloomberg:
U.S. Envoy Khalilzad to Leave Iraq, Officials Say (Update1) — Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, plans to leave his post and will be replaced by Ryan Crocker, the current ambassador to Pakistan, according to two officials familiar with the matter.
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Paul D. Colford / Kansas City Star:Trump criticizes cost of U.N. headquarters renovation
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Warren Hoge / New York Times:At the U.N., a Mixed View of Bolton's Tenure
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
NASA Says It Will Set Up Polar Moon Camp — NASA announced Monday it will establish an international base camp on one of the moon's poles, permanently staffing it by 2024, four years after astronauts return to the moon. — It is a sweeping departure from the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s …
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Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
NASA Plans Lunar Outpost — Permanent Base at Moon's South Pole Envisioned by 2024 — NASA unveiled plans yesterday to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts at the south pole of the moon sometime around 2020 — the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court Reviews Race as Factor in School Plans — By the time the Supreme Court finished hearing arguments on Monday on the student-assignment plans that two urban school systems use to maintain racial integration, the only question was how far the court would go in ruling such plans unconstitutional.
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Justin Webb / BBC:
UN envoy a victim of Bush weakness — President Bush's UN ambassador is resigning his post because he cannot get Senate backing to stay in the job. — If Mr Bush's Republican Party had kept control of the Senate in last month's elections, they might have been able to get John Bolton confirmed.
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Saddam May Escape Hangman's Noose — Saddam Hussein waited until the last minute before filing an appeal to his death sentence, and frequently delayed his trial with verbal tirades. — It all makes sense considering a little-reported Iraqi law, which bars the execution of anyone age 70 and above.
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Escape From Wall Street — How Congress put Hong Kong and London in a position to surpass New York as a financial capital. — HONG KONG—If you want to look for reasons why New York's status as the world's financial center is in serious jeopardy, you need only come here to gaze at this booming city and tour its markets.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Islamic Group Demands U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council Appointee Be Ousted — An Islamic group is demanding that a conservative talk show host and columnist, Dennis Prager, be ousted from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council because of his statement that a Muslim just elected to Congress …
George Russell / Fox News:
NORTH KOREA SUSPECTED OF COLLECTING MILLIONS IN REINSURANCE FRAUD — NEW YORK — The cash-strapped regime of North Korea, which has a worldwide reputation for its criminal dealings in weapons sales, drugs and near-perfect counterfeit U.S. $100 bills, may have found a new illicit source …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Meets With Rival of Iraqi Leader — President Bush met today with one of the most powerful Shiite leaders in Iraq — a political rival of Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki — and urged him to "reject the extremists that are trying to stop the advance of this young democracy."
jules crittenden:
A Dream of Mature Nations — A number of Canadians took offense recently to a Boston Herald column in which I slammed Canada and Europe in general for failing to hold up its end in this war for democracy, freedom and security. Specificially, I slammed them for being smug democracies …
Telegraph:
Growing tension with Russia over spy death — The Government moved yesterday to head off criticism that it was giving in to pressure from Moscow over the apparent murder of Alexander Litvinenko. — Tension between the two countries seemed certain to escalate as up to nine Scotland Yard detectives prepared …
MSNBC:
Is the FBI doing its best to combat terrorism? — Highest-ranking Arab-American agent says no, sues for discrimination — WASHINGTON - Bassem Youssef is the FBI's highest-ranking Arab-American agent. He's fluent in Arabic, ran the FBI's offices in Saudi Arabia and is a terrorism expert.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Black Lawmakers Set to Take Crucial Posts Face Pressure — The impending Democratic takeover of Congress will elevate more blacks to positions of power in the Capitol than ever: 4 major House committee chairmen, as many as 16 subcommittee chairmen, the third-ranking House Democratic leader …
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Taylor Marsh on Politics Now:
Locked Out in Las Vegas — updated below— I want you to meet Chris Moore. Universal Health Services has locked out SEIU nurses at Desert Spring and Valley Hospitals in Las Vegas. He is one of those nurses. I began reporting on this story this morning. — Today I had a chat with Chris on my radio show.
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