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10:20 AM ET, June 29, 2007

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Telegraph:
Car bomb found in London's West End  —  Police have defused a car bomb found near Piccadilly Circus in London's West End.  —  The "explosive device", discovered at 2am, posed a real and substantial threat to the surrounding area, according to a police source.
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Associated Press:
Police Discover, Defuse Bomb in London  —  LONDON — Police defused an explosive device found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack.
New York Times:
Explosive Device Found in London, Police Say  —  British police said they discovered an explosive device in a car abandoned outside a nightclub in the West End theater and entertainment district of central London early today and began a terrorism investigation.
Guardian:
London car bomb 'could have killed many'  —  A bomb made from gas cylinders, petrol and nails was found in an abandoned car in central London today, sparking a major terrorism alert.  —  Peter Clarke, Scotland Yard head of counter-terrorism, said the device, discovered in Haymarket …
Sky News:
Terror Car Packed With Petrol And Nails
David Stringer / Associated Press:
Explosives-packed car defused in London
Telegraph:
Car bomb would have caused 'carnage'
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Times of London:
London car bomb 'packed with nails and gas'
Discussion: Daily Mail
BBC:   Police avert car bomb 'carnage'
Sky News:   Bomb Designed To Cause Devastation
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Debate winners at the latest panderfest!  —  Who won the Democratic debate at Howard University Thursday night?  —  The American people.  As always.  —  But if you want a more reckless, immature and irresponsible view, you have come to the right place!  —  Once again, here are the winners …
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New York Times:
Domestic Issues Frame Democratic Debate  —  For 90 minutes Thursday night, eight Democratic candidates debated before an audience made up largely of one of their party's most reliable and liberal constituencies, African-American voters, and used the stage to urge a revitalization of domestic programs …
New York Times:
Fund-Raising for Clinton and Obama Nears Records  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign announced yesterday that it would raise "in the range of $27 million" for the second quarter of 2007, which ends Saturday night, and also warned supporters to prepare for a similarly dazzling result …
Discussion: MSNBC
Washington Post:
Democrats Address Race Issues In Debate
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration  —  With competing blocs of justices claiming the mantle of Brown v. Board of Education, a bitterly divided Supreme Court declared Thursday that public school systems cannot seek to achieve or maintain integration through measures …
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Not One More Roberts or Alito  —  The Senate's Democratic majority …
Discussion: Firedoglake and TalkLeft
New York Times:
Immigrant Bill Dies in Senate; Defeat for Bush  —  President Bush's effort to overhaul the nation's immigration policy, a cornerstone of his domestic agenda, collapsed Thursday in the Senate, with little prospect that it can be revived before Mr. Bush leaves office in 19 months.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
Do Idiots Run Washington?  —  I don't blame any American for wondering.  Did you see the NYTimes picture of the illegal immigrants immigration-bill proponents brought to the Senate??  —  As a Senate friend said to me about it: "all they did was remind people what the problem is.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:   Bush May Be Out of Chances For a Lasting Domestic Victory
Tapscott's Copy Desk:
An Incredible Week on the Long March to Right America  —  Winston Churchill once remarked that God takes care of drunks and the United States of America and so it seems to be as we approach the end of a remarkable week in which milestones of success for the conservative movement have come one after another.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Fairness Doctrine hammered 309-115
Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:
Bush Faces `No-Win' Pressures to Pardon Convicted Cheney Aide  —  President George W. Bush is likely to pay a political price if he decides to pardon convicted vice presidential aide Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby — or if he decides not to pardon him.  —  With the start of Libby's 2 1/2-year prison term looming …
Discussion: MSNBC
David Brown / Washington Post:
Why Do Cats Hang Around Us?  (Hint: They Can't Open Cans)  —  Genetic Research Suggests Felines 'Domesticated Themselves'  —  Your hunch is correct.  Your cat decided to live with you, not the other way around.  The sad truth is, it may not be a final decision.  —  But don't take this feline diffidence personally.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Pelosi, Reid plan new push to end war  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are expected tomorrow to announce a new coordinated effort to force votes in July to end the Iraq war, according to Democratic insiders.
 
 
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