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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton Shatters Record for Fundraising — Edwards Also Passes 1st-Quarter Benchmark — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, almost three times as much as any politician has previously raised at this point in a presidential election …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Clinton Campaign Shows Fund-Raising Edge — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination said Sunday that it had raised $26 million during the first quarter of this year, about three times as much as the previous record at this stage of a presidential race.
Faiz / Think Progress:
McCain Strolls Through Baghdad Market, Accompanied By 100 Soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, 2 Apache Gunships — Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are "not getting the full picture" of what's going on in Iraq.
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
4 G.I.'s Among Dead in Iraq; McCain Cites Progress
4 G.I.'s Among Dead in Iraq; McCain Cites Progress
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
New Generation of Qaeda Chiefs Is Seen on Rise — As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan's tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network's operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court Denies Appeal From Gitmo Detainees — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court denies detainees' habeas cases — The Supreme Court on Monday denied review in two new Guantanamo detainee cases. Three Justices dissented, and two others wrote separately about the denial. Had all five of those Justices voted for review, of course, the cases would have been granted.
New York Times:
Crime Intensifies Debate Over Taping of Suspects — The account, buried in a mountain of documents assembled for a Congressional investigation, describes a decidedly local yet brutal crime: a Navajo man charged with beating his girlfriend nearly to death and then hanging her by a rope outside …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrats To Widen Conflict With Bush — Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues — such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders …
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Laura Clark / Daily Mail:
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims — Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed. — It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Free for All — The group of young intellectuals who often gathered at Ayn Rand's Manhattan home in the early 1950s had a couple of different names for themselves. One was the "Class of '43," after the year that Rand published her first successful novel, "The Fountainhead."
Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
Balking at the First Pitch — Bush's Skipping of Opening Day May Perpetuate a Ritual's Slow Decline — This is a baseball story, so let's get right to the stats. — Today is Washington's 65th Opening Day since 1910, when William H. Taft gave us a tradition: the ceremonial first pitch by the president.
feingold.senate.gov:
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER COSPONSORS FEINGOLD BILL TO REDEPLOY TROOPS FROM IRAQ — Washington D.C. - U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission …
Washington Post:
The Once and Future Republic of Vermont — The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State. — Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big …
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
The Decoy Effect, or How to Win an Election — If Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ever took a break from fundraising to bone up on psychology, they might realize the need to talk up . . . John Edwards. — The same goes for front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the race …
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Tim Montgomerie / Britain and America:
It's a long way from Port Stanley to the Shatt-al-Arab waterway — Today is the 25th anniversary of Argentina's invasion of the Falklands. The recapture of the Falklands became the defining event of the Thatcher years. A nation that had been in decline since WWII found a new confidence.
Nick Bunkley / New York Times:
Seeking a Car That Gets 100 Miles a Gallon — The race is on to develop a commercially viable car that can travel 100 miles on a gallon of gasoline. — The same group that awarded $10 million to a team that built the first private spacecraft to leave the earth's atmosphere is expected …