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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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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Global warming man-made, will continue — PARIS - Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution.
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
Iranian agents nabbed in Gaza, 1 commits suicide
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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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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
An Inarticulate Kickoff — What is it, exactly, that white people mean when they call a black person "articulate"? — I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.
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Morning Call:
Gore ex-campaign chief wishes on her star — 'Wait till Oscar night,' Donna Brazile says of a possible 2008 run. — By Daryl Nerl Of The Morning Call — Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are the hot early front-runners, while 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry has already bowed out.
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
So Far, Obama Can't Take Black Vote for Granted
So Far, Obama Can't Take Black Vote for Granted
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Captain's Quarters
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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Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Exxon and Shell Report Record Profits for 2006 — Oil prices have fallen, but Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell left their smaller competitors in the dust and reported record annual profits Thursday. — By making $180 million a day between them, the two largest publicly traded oil companies displayed …
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John Porretto / Associated Press:
Exxon Mobil Posts Record Annual Profit
Exxon Mobil Posts Record Annual Profit
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coburn.senate.gov:
Dr. Coburn Votes to Protect Salaries of Low-Income Families from Flawed Wage Bill — (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding his vote against, H.R. 2, the Minimum Wage Act: — "This bill is unfair to workers and …
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Majority in Senate support 'stay the course' resolution — A bipartisan majority in the Senate yesterday united behind a firm "stay the course" resolution on the war in Iraq, despite searing public criticism from both sides in Congress over President Bush's handling of the war.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support
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Bradford Plumer
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 …
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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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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Associated Press:
Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring — PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction. — Phil did not see his shadow on Friday, which, according to German folklore …
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 …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain, Giuliani Skipping Some Conservative Events — A speech given by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before a National Review-sponsored conference last week may have been panned as unfocused, but in the eyes of those who attended, he at least had one thing going for him: He showed up.
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Washington Post:
Border Policy's Success Strains Resources — Tent City in Texas Among Immigrant Holding Sites Drawing Criticism — RAYMONDVILLE, Tex. — Ringed by barbed wire, a futuristic tent city rises from the Rio Grande Valley in the remote southern tip of Texas, the largest camp …
Denise Grady / New York Times:
U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given — Statistics on a Pentagon Web site have been reorganized in a way that lowers the published totals of American nonfatal casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. — Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, deputy director of force health protection and readiness …
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