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John Solomon / Washington Post:
Obama Takes Lead In Money Raised — Pressure on Clinton Is Expected to Grow — Sen. Barack Obama raised $31 million for his presidential primary campaign over the past three months, surging past Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine by nearly $10 million for the quarter …
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Kristin Jensen / Bloomberg:
Obama Taps Internet, Small Donors to Top Clinton's Fundraising — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is dominating presidential fundraising, raising the most money and bringing in far more contributors than rivals such as Hillary Clinton, who leads in national polls.
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Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned — Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11 — A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer …
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John O'Callaghan / Reuters:
U.S. plays down report of imminent al Qaeda attack — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday played down a report that al Qaeda was planning a spectacular attack on the United States, saying there was no credible information about an imminent threat.
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s — Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today. — Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran's …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran — The Bush administration's most reliable pro-surge "reporter," Michael Gordon of The New York Times, this morning filed an article — headlined: "U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s" — that might be the most war-fueling article yet with regard to Iran.
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Daily Mail:
Two doctors held over bomb attacks — While police swoop on motorway to arrest woman in a veil — Two doctors were among five people being held as terror suspects last night after the bomb plots in London and Glasgow. — One was one of two men who tried to drive a blazing Jeep packed with petrol …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease — Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute — At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers. One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians …
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Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Al Gore's Top-Secret Access for the Final 'Sopranos' Episode — Who knew that tree-hugging ex-politicians loved "The Sopranos"? It turns out that Al Gore is a die-hard fan, but when the series finale loomed in early June, he and his wife, Tipper, had to be on a plane for an appearance in Istanbul.
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Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
More London bombings on way, warns Muslim — UK Islamist leader claims Brits ready to carry out 'many attacks' — JERUSALEM - The thwarted car bombings in London last week and the terror attack this weekend against Scotland's busiest airport were "completely justified" …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
As Senator Rose, Lobbying Became Family Affair — On Christmas Eve 1994, Fred D. Thompson Jr. was out of a job. A 34-year-old self-described late bloomer, Mr. Thompson had graduated from law school just two years before and practiced law only for his father, Fred D. Thompson Sr. …
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Don Kaplan / New York Post:
TALKING UP IMUS — RADIO SIGNALS OF A WFAN COMEBACK — Imus may be hitting the FAN again. — The radio rumor mill has turned the volume way up on reports that the return of Don Imus to WFAN is just around the corner. — And WFAN itself is fueling the reports.
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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey; Commanded Submarine Attacks on Japanese Shipping — Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey, one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II who was awarded the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses for his daring submarine attacks on Japanese shipping, died June 28 at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Mitt Romney Loves His "Family Pets" — I'd be happy to make this my last word on the subject, but Romney can't seem to shut up about it: … You have fun with those "family pets," Mitt. We're moving on... Also, full disclosure: — UPDATE: Okay, we're not moving on, clearly.
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Angelo M. Codevilla / New York Post:
THE REAL SINS OF THE CIA — THE CIA last week released a heavily redacted version of a 1973 report what it considers its fathers' sins. There was nothing new: In the '70s and '80s, agency employees on all sides of the quarrels over what the CIA should do shopped their versions of the report …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Victory For Free Speech — If you believe most of the newspaper editorials and the outraged complaints from self-styled reform groups last week, the Supreme Court opened a huge "loophole" in campaign finance law that will enable corporations and unions to pollute the political process with their ads.
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