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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas Dies at 74 — WASHINGTON (AP) - Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas, a three-term conservative Republican who stayed clear of the Washington limelight and political catfights, died Monday. He was 74. — The senator's family issued a statement saying he died Monday evening …
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Susan Jo Keller / New York Times:
Senator Craig Thomas of Wyoming Dies at 74 — Senator Craig Thomas, a three-term Republican from Wyoming, died Monday evening, just hours after his staff reported that the treatment he was receiving for leukemia was no longer working. He was 74. — Under Wyoming's election laws …
CNN:
Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas dies … (CNN) — Republican Sen. Craig Thomas of Wyoming, who had been battling leukemia since November, died Monday night at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, a family spokesperson told CNN. He was 74. — Reacting to the news of Thomas' death …
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Wyoming Sen. Thomas dead at 74
Wyoming Sen. Thomas dead at 74
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USA Today:
Obama now virtually tied with Clinton, poll shows — WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are essentially tied for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the first time that the New York senator hasn't clearly led the field.
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Broadcasters Win Appeal Of FCC's Profanity Ruling — A federal appeals court tossed out an indecency ruling against Rupert Murdoch's Fox television network yesterday and broadly questioned whether the Federal Communications Commission has the right to police the airwaves for offensive language.
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. Rebuffed by Court on Indecency Fines
F.C.C. Rebuffed by Court on Indecency Fines
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Lose Their Edge — Poll Shows Congressional Approval Ratings Have Returned to Pre-Election Levels — The Democrats in Congress have lost much of the leadership edge they carried out of the 2006 midterm election, with the lack of progress in Iraq being the leading cause.
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Washington Post:
Discontent Over Iraq Increasing, Poll Finds — Growing frustration with the performance of the Democratic Congress, combined with widespread public pessimism over President Bush's temporary troop buildup in Iraq, has left satisfaction with the overall direction of the country at its lowest point …
Washington Times:
CBO: Bill would only reduce illegals by 25% — The Senate's immigration bill will only reduce illegal immigration by about 25 percent a year, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report, Stephen Dinan will report Tuesday in The Washington Times. — The bill's new guest-worker program …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
CBO: Immigration Bill Wll Fail On Most Counts
CBO: Immigration Bill Wll Fail On Most Counts
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Bella Thomas / Prospect Magazine:
A Cuban death rehearsal — 135 » Witness » A Cuban death rehearsal — With Fidel Castro apparently on the verge of death, I returned to Cuba to visit old friends. Little has changed over recent years and life for most Cubans remains harsh. Yet western visitors continue to romanticise the place
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New York Times:
An Unacceptable Nominee — President Bush's latest appeals court nominee, Leslie Southwick, has a disturbing history of insensitivity to blacks and other minority groups. The Senate should reject this nomination and make clear to the White House that it will reject all future nominees …
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Judge Throws Out Charges in Guantánamo Prisoner Case — A military judge here dismissed the war crimes charges against a Canadian detainee today, saying there was a flaw in the procedure the military has used to file such charges against Guantánamo detainees.
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Richard Chesnoff / NY Daily News:
A war that never ends — Forty years ago tomorrow, Israel wielded its terrible swift sword against the attack-poised armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan - and saved the Jewish state from destruction. — It was the Six-Day War, and the fledgling state's stunning victory over enemies determined …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
GOP to push for Jefferson expulsion — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) moved quickly to force the expulsion of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) from Congress following his indictment Monday on federal corruption charges. — The Republican leader will ask members of the House …
Brendan Carlin / Telegraph:
London unveils 2012 Olympics logo — Bosses of the 2012 Olympics were plunged into a fresh row last night after spending £400,000 on a controversial new logo for the London Games.. — In a move billed as the most significant event since London beat Paris in 2005 in the race to host the Games …
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Kelley Beaucar Vlahos / Fox News:
U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Not Yet Finished But Ready to Grow — WASHINGTON — It's as big as Vatican City and makes the foreign embassies dotting the tree-lined streets of Washington, D.C., look like carriage houses, but the barely-finished U.S. embassy in Baghdad is already primed for expansion.
Margery Eagan / Boston Herald:
GOP wives are a pol's breast friend: Front-runners get ample attention on the front lines — Does the heaving bosom play well among Bible Belt Republicans? Among New Hampshire primary voters? — How else to explain, as debate week begins, the bursting out all over by GOP front-runners' wives?
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