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4:10 AM ET, January 25, 2007

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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Kerry won't run for president in '08  —  WASHINGTON —Senator John F. Kerry plans to announce today that he will not run in the 2008 presidential race, and will instead remain in Congress and seek reelection to his Senate seat next year, according to senior Democratic officials.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Kerry Bows Out of 2008 Race  —  Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost the presidency to George Bush in 2004, stepped away today from what he had described as an almost all-but-certain second bid for the White House, bowing to a Democratic Party that was clearly unreceptive …
CNN:
Source: Kerry decides against 2008 presidential run … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, won't make a second bid for the White House, sources familiar with Kerry's thinking said Wednesday.  —  A source close to Kerry …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Kerry bows out of '08 presidential race  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democrats' losing presidential candidate in 2004, said Wednesday that he won't run for the White House again in 2008.  —  "I've concluded this isn't the time for me to mount a presidential campaign," Kerry said.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Kerry Rules Out 2008 Run for President
Discussion: The Caucus and TPMCafe blogs
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Two Vets Passing in the Night
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Transcript: CNN Interview with Cheney  —  We've just received the transcript for Vice President Cheney's interview with Wolf Blitzer this morning.  It's posted in full below the fold.  —  Q And joining us now, the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.  Mr. Vice President, thanks very much for doing this.
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Drudge Report:
CHENEY CALLS BLITZER QUESTION ON DAUGHTER'S PREGNANCY 'OUT OF LINE'  —  In an interview taped to air for today's 'Situation Room' on CNN, Vice President Cheney responded sharply to anchor Woilf Blitzer's line of questioning regarding the pregancy of Cheney's lesbian daughter:
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Cheney Spars with Blitzer Over Criticism of Iraq, Mary's Pregnancy
Discussion: The Agonist and Hullabaloo
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Defending Iraq War, Defiant Cheney Cites 'Enormous Successes'
Huffington Post:
CRITICISM OF ME IS "HOGWASH"...  Vice President Dick Cheney …
Discussion: Attytood
Washington Post:
Senate Panel Votes Against Bush on Iraq  —  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today passed a nonbinding resolution opposing a troop surge in Iraq, rebuffing the key element of President Bush's new strategy to end the 46-month-old war, which has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. service members.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Minimum Wage Bill Suffers Setback in Senate  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — Prospects for an increase in the minimum wage suffered a setback today in the Senate, where a move fell short, at least for now, to raise the minimum by $2.10 an hour without tax breaks for small businesses
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Tax break talks slow minimum wage hike
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Take The Pledge  —  Take the pledge.  This is the temporary site.  The full-service site will be up soon.  —  If you are a blogger who has taken the pledge and linked to the site, please send me a note so I can add your support here.  —  I interviewed Tony Snow at the top of the program today …
Nico / Think Progress:
Fox's Gibson: CNN Reporter Who Debunked Obama Smear Probably Went To The Same Madrassa  —  Last week, Fox News highlighted a right-wing report alleging that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic "madrassa" school as a 6-year-old child.  In a memo released today, Obama's office specifically called …
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
OBAMA TAKES ON FOX NEWS.  If this is a sign of how Barack Obama intends to deal with the right-wing media during his Presidential campaign, then I'm all for it.  —  Obama is aggressively going after Fox News today for pushing that smear-job report claiming that he went to an Islamic "madrassa" school as a child.
Reuters:
China's Hu vows to "purify" Internet  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country's sprawling, unruly online population.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Redstate:
They all suck.  Let's just admit it.  Every one of the thus far announced Republican candidates for President sucks.  From the lecherous adulterer to the egomaniacal nut job to the flip-flopping opportunist with the perfect hair to the guy who hates brown people to the guy we've never heard …
 
 
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USA Today:
Media outlets battle it out over free-speech rights
David Corn:
Libby Trial Continues with Memory Attacks
Discussion: The Nation and Firedoglake
Anne Gearan / Houston Chronicle:
Rice: U.S. to pledge $770M to Lebanon
WRAL-TV:
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Operation Baghdad — A Special Report from the Streets of the City
Discussion: Don Surber
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Critics See Too Little Significant Change
CNN:
Poll: Viewers have positive reaction to Bush speech
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
4 Americans in Iraq crash shot in head
Rick Perlstein / Salon:
Why Democrats can stop the war
Michael J. Gerson / Newsweek:
Exceeding Expectations  —  Bush's former speechwriter …
Discussion: The Reaction, TIME and The RBC
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Senators eye rejection of Bush war plan
KSTP-TV:
MN congresswoman can't keep her hand off President
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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