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9:35 AM ET, January 2, 2007

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Reuters:
Iraq govt to probe filming of Saddam hanging  —  BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government launched an inquiry on Monday into how guards filmed and taunted Saddam Hussein on the gallows, turning his execution into a televised spectacle that has inflamed sectarian anger.
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Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:
Sunnis protest over Saddam execution  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunnis Muslims, angered by the execution of Saddam Hussein and the way his hanging was carried out, took to the streets in mainly peaceful demonstrations in Sunni enclaves across the country.  —  A crowd of Sunni mourners in Samarra marched …
Discussion: Truthdig
Associated Press:
16, 273 Deaths Reported in Iraq in 2006  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — As enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's Sunni heartland Monday, government officials reported that 16,273 Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police died violent deaths in 2006, a figure larger …
Discussion: HACKED
Nir Rosen / iraqslogger.com:
Hijacking Eid and Hanging Saddam
CNN:
Top Iraqi source: U.S. tried to delay execution
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Democrats To Start Without GOP Input  —  As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking.  —  House Democrats intend to pass …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
As New Congress Nears, House Democrats Could Be Headed for Own Divide  —  Representative John D. Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who with more than 50 years' tenure is the senior member of the House, is not so sure about the idea of creating an independent group to enforce ethics rules.
New York Times:
Chaos Overran Iraq Plan in '06, Bush Team Says  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 — President Bush began 2006 assuring the country that he had a "strategy for victory in Iraq."  He ended the year closeted with his war cabinet on his ranch trying to devise a new strategy, because the existing one had collapsed.
Editor and Publisher:
AP Asks: Why So Many Upset by Iraq Death Toll?  —  PHILADELPHIA The country largely kept the faith during World War II, even as about 400,000 U.S. forces died - 20,000 just in the month long Battle of the Bulge.  Before turning against the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Americans tolerated thousands more deaths than in Iraq.
NY Daily News:
Revealed: Rudy's '08 battle plans  —  It's clearly laid out in 140 pages of printed text, handwriting and spreadsheets: The top-secret plan for Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House.  —  The remarkably detailed dossier sets out the budgets, schedules and fund-raising plans that will underpin …
New York Times:
Few Iraqis Are Gaining U.S. Sanctuary  —  With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States.  —  Until recently the Bush administration …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and CorrenteWire
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Our World: The longest-running big lie  —  Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Yasser Arafat was a master of the big lie.  Since he invented global terrorism with the founding of the Fatah terror organization in 1959, Arafat successfully portrayed himself as a freedom fighter while introducing the world …
Justin Webb / BBC:
Bush 'to reveal Iraq troop boost'  —  US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days, the BBC has learnt.  —  The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
The Private Arm of the Law  —  Some Question the Granting of Police Power to Security Firms  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Kevin Watt crouched down to search the rusted Cadillac he had stopped for cruising the parking lot of a Raleigh apartment complex with a broken light.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Power-Sipping Bulbs Get Backing From Wal-Mart  —  As a way to cut energy use, it could not be simpler.  Unscrew a light bulb that uses a lot of electricity and replace it with one that uses much less.  —  While it sounds like a promising idea, it turns out that the long-lasting …
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
NRA Sounds Alarm of Not-So-Imminent Threat  —  In lobbying, a threat is good for business, whether it's genuine or not.  —  This might help to explain the dire warnings being issued by the National Rifle Association as the Democrats prepare to take control of Congress this week.
Discussion: MyDD, Scobleizer and NewsBusters.org
Lindsay Murdoch / Sydney Morning Herald:
Corby fears jail transfer  —  WHAT Schapelle Corby calls her living hell in Bali's Kerobokan prison is about to get worse.  —  Indonesian authorities are set to transfer the 29-year-old Brisbane woman to a prison in the East Java city of Malang, hundreds of kilometres from Kerobokan …
Discussion: TalkLeft and NEWS.com.au
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Hello, Grisham — So Long, Hemingway?  —  With Shelf Space Prized, Fairfax Libraries Cull Collections  —  You can't find "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" at the Fairfax City Regional Library anymore.  Or "The Education of Henry Adams" at Sherwood Regional.  Want Emily Dickinson's "Final Harvest"?
 
 
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Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

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Ad software company Mediaocean buys Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20

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