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9:25 AM ET, June 5, 2007

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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 …
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Wyoming Sen. Thomas dead at 74
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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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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 …
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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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
CBO: Immigration Bill Wll Fail On Most Counts
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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Libby Faces Sentencing Tuesday  —  WASHINGTON — Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby arrived Tuesday at a federal courthouse to learn his sentence in the CIA leak case.  —  Libby said nothing, only smiling to reporters on his way in the door.  He will have the opportunity …
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USA Today:
Court advisers lean to leniency in Libby's sentencing
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WBZ-TV:
Retired Officer Subdues Unruly Plane Passengers  —  (WBZ) BOSTON A former police officer is being called a hero after he helped subdue two unruly passengers on a plane over the weekend.  —  Retired police officer Bob Hayden, who served in Boston and Lawrence for several years …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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
Discussion: Redstate
Greg Gordon / Real Cities:
Justice Department actions expected to draw congressional scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON - Saying it was out to combat widespread voter fraud, the Justice Department in recent years has stepped up enforcement of election laws to ease the purging of ineligible voters from state registration rolls.
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William Glaberson / New York Times:
Military Judges Dismiss Charges for 2 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 …
Discussion: Power Line
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.
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Cheated of Future, Iraqi Graduates Want to Flee  —  They started college just before or after the American invasion with dreams of new friends and parties, brilliant teachers and advanced degrees that would lead to stellar jobs, marriage and children.  Success seemed well within their grasp.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
New York Times:
Congressman Sought Bribes, Indictment Says  —  Representative William J. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat at the center of an investigation that included an F.B.I. raid at his Congressional office and accusations that he hid $90,000 in bribe money in his home freezer, was indicted Monday …
 
 
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