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CNN reporter slams Drudge's charge that he 'heckled' McCain; Exclusive video confirms his claim — CNN reporter Michael Ware this morning hit back at news aggregator Matt Drudge who accused him on Sunday of 'heckling' Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham in a Baghdad press conference.
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Media Matters for America:
UPDATE: CNN's Ware flatly denies report that he "heckled" McCain, but right-wing media flog it anyway — On April 1, Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted an "exclusive" alert on his website, the Drudge Report, claiming that CNN international correspondent Michael Ware, during a press conference in Baghdad …
Mussab Al-Khairalla / Reuters:
Snipers back at Baghdad market after McCain visit
Snipers back at Baghdad market after McCain visit
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Agence France Presse:
Government must deal with greenhouse gases: US Supreme Court — The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must consider greenhouse gases as pollutants, in a blow to the White House. — "Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act's capacious definition …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
EPA must consider global warming again
EPA must consider global warming again
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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 …
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
GOP '08 fundraising totals mark new high — BOSTON - Republican Mitt Romney reported raising $23 million for his presidential campaign during the first three months of the year, shaking up the GOP field and rivaling the total reported a day earlier by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Quinnipiac University News and Events:
April 2, 2007 - Giuliani Widens Lead Over Clinton In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Gore Squeaks Past Obama In Democratic Primary — Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has opened double-digit leads over top 2008 Democratic presidential contenders in Florida …
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Thompson Is for Real — In just three weeks, Fred Thompson …
Thompson Is for Real — In just three weeks, Fred Thompson …
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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.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Beltway Journamalism and the Public — I don't know why, but when Jonathan Weisman's reporting at the Washington Post is bad, it's really irritating. I think it's because he more than most 'straight' journalists is obvious about what he wants to say and fishing for quotes and sources to help him say it.
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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq — TOKYO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible.
The Blotter:
Exclusive: Iran Nuclear Bomb Could Be Possible by 2009 — Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report: — Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.
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Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis — A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.
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Dan Mangan / New York Post:
JUDI'S JOB WITH PUP-KILLER FIRM — Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Rightist Indignation — GOP Insider Vic Gold Launches a Broadside at the State of the Party — Vic Gold heard from Lynne Cheney a few weeks before George W. Bush was sworn in as president in January 2001. Cheney had an assignment for her old friend: She wanted Gold to write the profiles …
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Linton Weeks / Washington Post:
Stand-Up Comity, One Night Only — At the Gridiron Dinner, a Splitting And Joining of Sides — Once again there was the usual air of palsy-walsyness between politicians and journalists at the annual Gridiron Club dinner Saturday night. These anachronistic affairs are like fairy tales told at bedtime …
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.