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Lara Setrakian / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: DA in Duke Rape Case Asks to Be Taken off Case — After Weeks of Criticism, District Attorney Mike Nifong Asked to Be Recused — ABC News Law & Justice Unit — District Attorney Mike Nifong has requested that he have himself removed from prosecuting the Duke Lacrosse rape investigation, ABC News has learned.
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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Prosecutor Asks State to Take Over Duke Case — The district attorney has asked the state attorney general to take over prosecution of the sexual offense and kidnapping case against three Duke University lacrosse players, an official involved in the case said today.
Raleigh News & Observer:
Nifong asks to be removed from case — THE LATEST: Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has asked to be removed from the Duke University lacrosse case. — Nifong made the request in a letter delivered to the office of N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper. — The attorney general's office could take over the case.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Duke prof resigns committee posts over defendants' return to campus; Update: Nifong asks to be recused (Bumped) — Innocent until proven guilty, unless you're a cog in the patriarchy's institutionalized frat-boy rape machine. … We must not judge by adjudging them presumptively not guilty.
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Associated Press:
Duke prof. quits committees in protest — DURHAM, N.C. - A Duke University professor resigned from her committee assignments, saying she was upset by the administration's decision to invite two lacrosse players accused of sexual assault back to campus. — "The decision by the university …
New York Times:
Bush Authorized Iranians' Arrest in Iraq, Rice Says — A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
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Fox News:
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN BLASTS SEN. BOXER'S EXCHANGE WITH SECRETARY RICE — Jan. 11: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses U.S. policy in Iraq while testifying on Capitol Hill. — WASHINGTON — The White House fired back Friday at Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's verbal slap …
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Amir Taheri / New York Post:
HOW IRAQIS SEE W'S NEW PLAN — GREAT RELIEF - AND SOME CONCERNS — 'A SIGH of relief! So one resident of Haifa Street, in the heart of Baghdad's badlands, reacted to the new plan to secure the Iraqi capital with the help of thousands of additional American troops.
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Murray Waas / National Journal:
CIA Leak Probe: Inside The Grand Jury — Late in the morning of July 12, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney stood atop a pier at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia awaiting the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, a ship 20 stories high that took eight years to construct.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Boneless Wonders — Meet the spineless members of Congress. … Today, Boneless Wonders sit on the benches of both parties in Congress. More are to be found on the Democratic side of the aisle than the Republican. But the herd of Boneless Wonders these days is a bipartisan one.
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Washington Post:
Unveiled Threats — A Bush appointee's crude gambit on detainees' legal rights — MOST AMERICANS understand that legal representation for the accused is one of the core principles of the American way. Not, it seems, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.
WKMG-TV:
African Lion Kisses, Hugs Woman Who Saved It — People Shocked To See Affection Between Pair — People in Cali, Colombia, are shocked to see the bond between a large African lion and a woman who saved it from abuse, involving long, affectionate kisses and hugs between the pair.
Reuters:
Scientists prepare to move Doomsday Clock forward — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" plan to move its hands forward next Wednesday to reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world. — The symbolic clock, maintained by the Bulletin …
Robert Parry / Consortiumnews.com:
The U.S.-Iran-Iraq-Israeli-Syrian War — At a not-for-quotation pre-speech briefing on Jan. 10, George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming.
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Media Matters for America:
Media Matters implores ABC not to air violent hate speech and racist fearmongering — President and CEO, The Walt Disney Company — Dear Messrs. Iger, McPherson, and Westin: — We are writing to urge ABC/Disney to stop airing the violent hate speech and racist fearmongering …