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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush aides' use of GOP e-mail probed — WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.
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Washington Post:
White House E-Mail Lost in Private Accounts — Messages May Have Included Discussions About Firing of Eight Prosecutors — The White House acknowledged yesterday that e-mails dealing with official government business may have been lost because they were improperly sent through private accounts intended …
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USA Today:
Clinton: Attacks won't scare me off — FORT DRUM, N.Y. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says the pain and turmoil of her White House years don't discourage her in the least as she wages a campaign she hopes will bring her back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. — "I've decided this country …
Dinitia Smith / New York Times:
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84 — Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan.
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Sky News:
Green Zone Bomb Blast — An explosion has rocked the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad killing at least two people and injuring many others. — One of the victims is said to be Mohammed Awad, a member of parliament for the Sunni National Dialogue Front. — A Shia MP also died in the blast.
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Bombing at Iraqi parliament kills 2 — BAGHDAD - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in the Iraqi parliament's cafeteria in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, U.S.-protected Green Zone, killing at least two lawmakers and wounding 10 other people.
Pajamas Media:
BLAST IN THE GREEN ZONE: EXPLOSION AT IRAQI PARLIAMENT KILLS 3 MPS — 3rd victim unofficially confirmed. (Sky News) — It was a suicide bomber. (al-Jazeera) — Sunnis targeted? the list of wounded in local media show that most of the wounded were Sunnis, PJM Baghdad editor Mohammed Fadhil reports.
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Fester / NewsHog:
Symbolic vs. Systemic Attacks — The BBC is reporting that a bomb went off in a Green Zone cafeteria that is commonly used by Iraqi members of Parliament. At least one person was killed and several more wounded. — Canadian CTV is reporting the same attack and also a large truck bombing attack …
Katherine Coble / Just Another Pretty Farce:
This Entry For A Limited Time Only — The doorbell rang 5 minutes ago. — It was delivery of a certified letter. — I am being ordered to take down all of my blog entries pertaining to JL Kirk & Associates. If I don't, they will so me for tortuous interference and other damages.
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Bill Hobbs:
Suing a Blogger — Big, powerful law firms like Nashville's King & Ballow really ought to hire someone with journalistic and new media experience to advise them on how to handle clients who complain about things published by bloggers. Then they wouldn't do stupid things like issue threats …
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Brittney / Nashville is Talking:A Play-By-Play: The JL Kirk & Associates Saga
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain Calls War 'Necessary and Just' — Sinking in polls and struggling to reinvigorate his foundering presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered a robust defense of the war in Iraq on Wednesday, declaring that President Bush and the conflict's supporters are on the right side …
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New York Times:
In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
New York Times:
Civilian Claims on U.S. Suggest the Toll of War — In February 2006, nervous American soldiers in Tikrit killed an Iraqi fisherman on the Tigris River after he leaned over to switch off his engine. A year earlier, a civilian filling his car and an Iraqi Army officer directing traffic …
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Guardian:
Blair blames spate of murders on black culture — Patrick Wintour and Vikram Dodd — Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance …
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Benjamin Niolet / Raleigh News & Observer:
All lacrosse charges dropped — RALEIGH - State Attorney General Roy Cooper said today he would dismiss sexual assault and kidnapping charges against three former Duke University lacrosse players, declaring them "innocent of these charges" and accusing Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong of overreaching.
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