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Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:
Turkish officials say troops enter Iraq — ANKARA, Turkey - Hundreds of Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq on Wednesday pursuing Kurdish guerrillas who stage attacks on Turkey from hideouts there, Turkish security officials and an Iraqi Kurd official said.
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Officials: Turkey troops hunting Kurds in Iraq — The last major Turkish incursion into northern Iraq was in 1997, when about 50,000 troops were sent to the region. — The officials did not say where the Turkish force was operating in northern Iraq, nor did he say how long they would be there.
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Associated Press:
Sources: Thousands of Turkish troops enter Iraq
Sources: Thousands of Turkish troops enter Iraq
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New York Times:
Transcript: Third G.O.P. Debate — The following is a transcript of the 2008 Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, WMUR-TV and The New Hampshire Union Leader. The participants were Senator Sam Brownback, the former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, the former …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
NULL SET....I tuned in too late to hear Mitt Romney's "null set" answer last night, but apparently his algebraic illiteracy is nothing compared to his ignorance of actual events from four years ago. Here's his answer to a question about whether it was a mistake to invade Iraq: … WTF?
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo to change direction of his campaign
Tancredo to change direction of his campaign
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Des Moines Register:
Giuliani will skip August straw poll — New Yorker plans "non-traditional" caucus run — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani plans to skip the Ames straw poll in August, but compete to win the leadoff Iowa caucuses, a gamble by the former New York Mayor on a "non-traditional" caucus campaign and a first for Iowa.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Giuliani, McCain say no to straw poll
Giuliani, McCain say no to straw poll
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Michael Calderone / New York Observer:
Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards — "I'm sworn to secrecy," Rupert Murdoch told The Observer as he was leaving the New-York Historical Society's auditorium last night. But: "We're making progress," the News Corp. chief added. — Mr. Murdoch hosted …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Can He Unleash the Force? — Like all young superheroes, Barack Obama has to learn to harness his powers.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Democrats Hope to Expand Rights at Guantánamo — A day after two military judges ruled against the Bush administration's system for trying terrorism detainees, Democrats seized on the rulings on Tuesday as evidence that Congress should restore the right of those held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detentions.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Senate Immigration Bill Falls, 49% Prefer No Bill At All — Public support for the Senate immigration reform bill has slipped a bit over the past week. A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Monday and Tuesday night found that just 23% of voters now support the bill while 50% are opposed.
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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
GOP Lawmakers Demand Probe of ABC News Story — Justin Rood Reports: — A group of House Republicans are calling for an investigation into "the release of sensitive information" in a recent ABC News report on CIA covert activities against Iran. — In a carefully worded request …
Agence France Presse:
Mohammed likely to top British boys' names list by year-end — Mohammed will likely become the most popular name for baby boys in Britain by the end of the year, The Times reported on Wednesday, citing government data. — Though official records from the Office for National Statistics list …
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David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Rudy: No on Medical Marijuana — Just finished my reporting trip with a Rudy Giuliani town hall in New Castle, New Hampshire, a tiny island luxuryville a few miles from Portsmouth. Don Murphy from Republicans for Compassionate Access, the pro-medical marijuana group, got to ask Rudy …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Crushes — I honestly don't know what to make of all these men in the political establishment who insist on using their mancrushes as some sort of guideline for who is and is not "presidential." Honestly, even Kathryn Jean Lopez's famous drooling over Mitt Romney isn't as embarrassing.
Megan K. Stack / Los Angeles Times:
In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil — As a woman in the male-dominated kingdom, Times reporter Megan Stack quietly fumed beneath her abaya. Even beyond its borders, her experience taints her perception of the sexes. — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — The hem of my heavy Islamic cloak trailed over floors that glistened like ice.
Carol Eisenberg / Newsday:
Credibility of JFK terror case questioned — When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as "one of the most chilling plots imaginable," which might have caused "unthinkable" devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed.
Robert Haddick / TCS Daily:
Journalists, You're in the Army Now — The days of the independent, neutral war correspondent, objectively reporting from a war's front lines, are quickly coming to an end. In the future, a war correspondent will either effectively be a soldier for one faction of a conflict, or he will literally not survive in the war zone.