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Jerusalem Post:
Eleven Palestinians killed in ferocious Gaza fighting — Eleven Palestinians were killed, including two children - aged eight and five - in ferocious fighting Friday between Hamas and Fatah gunmen. — Also among the dead were a Palestinian Authority intelligence commander, his bodyguard …
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Ali Waked / Ynetnews:
Iranian agents nabbed in Gaza, 1 commits suicide — Palestinian security forces arrest sat least five Iranians at Hamas-linked university in Strip, say men sent by Iran to train Islamic group. Hamas commander believed to have orchestrated kidnapping of Israeli soldier Shalit injured in raid, report says
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Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Gaza erupts in fatal clashes after truce
Gaza erupts in fatal clashes after truce
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Associated Press:
FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney — WASHINGTON The "CIA leak" trial resumed today, after two critical days of testimony from reporters Judith Miller and Matt Cooper. As in past days, E&P will provide running updates here. — After a long day or legal wrangling …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Failed Cover-Up — Why was the White House so nervous in the summer of 2003 about the CIA's reporting on alleged Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Niger to build a nuclear bomb? That's the big question that runs through the many little details that have emerged in the perjury trial …
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Tom Lasseter / Real Cities:
Mahdi Army gains strength through unwitting aid of U.S. — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military drive to train and equip Iraq's security forces has unwittingly strengthened anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has been battling to take over much of the capital city …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Must read: U.S. troops say Iraqi army in Baghdad is filthy with JAM
Must read: U.S. troops say Iraqi army in Baghdad is filthy with JAM
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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study — Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. — Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute …
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Washington Post:
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns — A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control …
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Senate Adds Tax Breaks To Minimum Wage Bill — Raise Passes, but House Leaders Refuse to Accept Amendments — The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade, but added small-business tax breaks that are unacceptable to House leaders …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support — A revised Senate resolution criticizing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq drew new support Thursday as two authors of a sterner resolution of disapproval said they would accept the compromise, fashioned by Senator John W. Warner.
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Senators Challenge Gen. Casey On Iraq War — Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Bush administration's nominee to be the Army chief of staff, got an unusually harsh reception yesterday from some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee for his performance as the top U.S. commander in Iraq …
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Maya Angelou / Washington Post:
Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call — The walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking. — That Jericho voice is stilled now. — Molly Ivins has been quieted. — The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many …
New York Times:
Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail — Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida's counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted …
U.S. Newswire:
Landmark Legal Foundation Nominates Rush Limbaugh for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize — Contact: Eric Christensen of Landmark Legal Foundation, +1-703-554-6100, +1-703-554-6119 (fax), eric@landmarklegal.org — LEESBURG, Va., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Landmark Legal Foundation today nominated …
Wikinews:
Cartoon promotion goes awry and causes bomb scare in Boston — From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! — Two men alleged to have placed the boxes have been charged, and Turner Broadcast Systems apologized. Boston's mayor will pursue compensation to the city for the cost of the scare.
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Brady Averill / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Pawlenty drawing more national interest — After a prayer breakfast in the Capitol, he fielded questions about his work with Sen. John McCain. — WASHINGTON - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty delivered the prayer for world leaders at the 55th annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday …