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Court rules against Guantanamo detainees — Big win for administration although appeal to Supreme Court is likely — WASHINGTON - Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision in President Bush's anti-terrorism law.
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Campos: The right's Ward Churchill — Murder is the premeditated unlawful killing of a human being. Glenn Reynolds, the well-known University of Tennessee law professor who authors one of the Internet's most popular blogs, recently advocated the murder of Iranian scientists and clerics.
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Paul Kane / Capitol Briefing:
Obama, McCaskill Plan Military Hospitals Bill — Seizing on an investigative report by The Washington Post's Dana Priest and Anne Hull, Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) will introduce legislation next week to require more frequent inspections of hospitals providing treatment to active-duty military personnel.
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Online NewsHour:
Army Hospital Struggles to Provide Iraq Veterans Adequate Care — Some Iraq war veterans returning to the United States for medical treatment have found that Washington, D.C.'s Walter Reed Army Hospital has failed to provide them with adequate care. Dana Priest, a Washington Post reporter who broke the story, describes the problems.
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Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
Clinton Objects to Confederate Flag — ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.
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GOP donor hit with terror charges — WASHINGTON - A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to the House Republicans' campaign committee over three years. — Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court …
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Mary Jane Park / St. Petersburg Times:
Tormented first by hiccups, now by media … ST. PETERSBURG - The notes under the door. The incessant phone calls. The impassioned pleas, all begging for a piece of the story. — It wasn't reporters in search of secret intelligence involving the war in Iraq.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Trial Spotlights Cheney's Power as an Infighter — A picture taking shape from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. shatters any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion throughout President Bush's first term.
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Cheney's Influence Lessens in Second Term
Cheney's Influence Lessens in Second Term
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Geoff Mulvihill / Associated Press:
Gay couples get licenses in N.J. — TEANECK, N.J. - Hundreds of gay couples were granted the same legal rights, if not the title, as married couples Monday as New Jersey became the third state to offer civil unions. — More than a dozen other couples applied for licenses for ceremonies later in the week.
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Keith Epps / Free Lance-Star:
Police say political dispute with stranger got physical — Man's Republican beliefs irritate suspect — A Fredericksburg man was arrested Saturday on charges he assaulted three strangers at their home during a dispute over politics, police said. — According to a Fredericksburg police report …
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USA Today:
Media cited for showing girls as sex objects — Advertising and media images that encourage girls to focus on looks and sexuality are harmful to their emotional and physical health, a new report by the American Psychological Association says. — The report, released Monday, analyzed some 300 studies over the past 18 months.
Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
North Africa Feared as Staging Ground for Terror — TUNIS — The plan, hatched for months in the arid mountains of North Africa, was to attack the American and British Embassies here. It ended in a series of gun battles in January that killed a dozen militants and left two Tunisian security officers dead.
CNN:
Scores choke in poison gas attack … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A cloud of deadly toxic gas engulfed an Iraqi town Tuesday, killing six people and leaving dozens of others choking on fumes after a tanker carrying chlorine exploded outside a restaurant. — An Iraqi Interior Ministry official …
Think Progress:
Right-Wing Radio Host: Teachers Unions Are 'Much More Dangerous' Than Al Qaeda — Last night on Fox News's Hannity and Colmes, right-wing radio host Neal Boortz claimed that teachers unions are "destroying a generation" and are "much more dangerous than al Qaeda."
Cernig / NewsHog:
Breaking - Al Sadr's Office Attacked — This is fresh from KUNA, the Kuwaiti News Agency: … This could easily backfire, turning Sadrists who have so far hidden from "surge" forces over into attack mode. It could also be a cusp moment for the surge and for the Iraqi government …
Bill / INDCJournal:
"Tell the American people we need the U.S. Army here:" An Interview with the Jundi — An Interview with the Jundi — (L to R) Iraqi Army soldiers Jabbar, Mohaned F, Mohaned N and Mohammed sit in their room at Forward Operating Base Castle in NE Fallujah.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court limits punitive damages — The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that it is unconstitutional for a jury to award punitive damages out of a desire to punish a company for harming individuals other than those directly involved in the lawsuit — that is, "strangers to the litigation."
The Politico:
Conservatives Target GOP War Critics in Congress — House Republican leaders and conservative activists are targeting critics of President Bush's plan to send more combat forces into Iraq — and some GOP lawmakers are on the hit list. — Amid a mounting campaign in Congress …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The Talented Mr. Romney — I have been following the zigs and zags of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and now Republican presidential candidate, watching him grow progressively less progressive, sort of making himself up as he goes along. As a result, I surf the Web with trepidation …
David Brody / The Politico:
CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK — What do you think the pro-life community will make of John McCain this weekend? The Associated Press is running a national article with the headline: — "McCain: Abortion ruling should be overturned." — This is what he said in Iowa this weekend:
Srosenfeld / TAPPED:
BLACK VELVET. I know this may generate a storm of "cat-hater" invective directed at me, but frankly, I don't care: My name is Tom Schaller, and I'm a Dog Person. — My wife and I have a gorgeous, 90-pound black lab named Max. He was rescued by the Silver Spring's (MD) Lab Rescue after being found roaming the streets in Delaware.
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