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2:20 PM ET, July 6, 2007

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Lisa Cornwell / Associated Press:
Court Rejects Domestic Spying Suit  —  CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.  —  The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated …
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Associated Press:
Court nixes suit against spying program  —  CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.  —  The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel …
Discussion: Corrente and Left in the West
Deacon / Power Line:
REVERSAL IN THE NSA SURVEILLANCE CASE
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Munir Ahmad / Associated Press:
Pakistani leader escapes attempt on life  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gunners fired after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's plane took off from a military base on Friday in what one official described as a failed assassination attempt.  —  Security forces quickly raided a nearby home …
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Gateway Pundit:
Pakistani President Musharraf Survives Assassination Attempt
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Reuters:
FACTBOX-Assassination attempts against Pakistan's Musharraf
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
"Miscreants" Attack Musharraf's Plane
Discussion: Reuters
Joseph Lieberman / Opinion Journal:
Iran's Proxy War  —  Tehran is on the offensive against us throughout the Middle East.  Will Congress respond?  —  Earlier this week, the U.S. military made public new and disturbing information about the proxy war that Iran is waging against American soldiers and our allies in Iraq.
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Jules Crittenden:
A Greater Iranosphere  —  Joe Lieberman lays out the case on Iran …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Global Business News Online:
exclusive: rupert murdoch buys dow jones, owners of the wall street journal  —  Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his $5 billion bid for Dow Jones.  Negotiations are now complete and a formal announcement is expected next week.  —  Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his $5 billion bid for Dow Jones …
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CNN:
Dow Jones: Report On Completed News Corp Deal 'False'
Discussion: Guardian
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
G.I.'s Forge Sunni Tie in Bid to Squeeze Militants
Discussion: The Corner and The Strata-Sphere
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
2008 Candidates Vow to Overhaul U.S. Health Care  —  There is no better measure of the power of the health care issue than this: Sixteen months before Election Day, presidential candidates in both parties are promising to overhaul the system and cover more — if not all — of the 44.8 million people without insurance.
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Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
SiCKO: Ask The Right Question First
Discussion: Eschaton
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
White House questions Dems' zeal for oversight  —  The White House Thursday raised questions about the level of Democratic oversight, saying that the time the majority spends on investigating the Bush administration could be used to pass bills.  —  Bush spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters during …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Ron Paul Tops McCain in Cash on Hand  —  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Though often regarded as a longshot candidate for president, Republican Ron Paul tells ABC News that he has an impressive $2.4 million in cash on hand after raising an equal amount during the second quarter …
zombietime:
Anti-American July 4th  —  July 4th in San Francisco.  So many things to do!  —  After attending the AK Press "F**k the Fourth" party as a pre-holiday warm-up, I was hungry for some more Independence Day patriotism — San Francisco style.  —  I was tempted at first by a public event celebrating the …
J. Freedom Du Lac / Washington Post:
Live Earth Concert to Be Held in Washington on Saturday  —  Live Earth will be live in Washington, after all.  —  Al Gore's global-warming concert series — previously given the cold shoulder here — will touch down for a satellite show at the National Museum of the American Indian tomorrow morning …
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Republican enters race for ill senator's seat  —  South Dakota state Rep. Joel Dykstra (R) has officially entered the race for the Republican nomination to face Sen. Tim Johnson (D) in 2008.  —  Dykstra filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday and declared himself a "candidate for U.S. Senate."
Amina Luqman / Washington Post:
Obama's Tightrope  —  The world felt topsy-turvy as I watched the presidential debate held at Howard University last week.  Up seemed down and everything was out of sync as the front-runners for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, spoke.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Washington Talk Radio Station Drops Bill O'Reilly  —  Washington DC FM talk radio station 106.7 WJFK yesterday announced it was dropping Bill O'Reilly's nationally syndicated show, and replacing it with a sports-talk program.  The Washington Post reports today that O'Reilly's cancellation is a …
Discussion: Washington Post and QandO
 
 
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Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Obstruction of Justice Merits More Punishment than Censure
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
My Challenge to GE: Time for Cable News That Respects the American People
William Booth / Washington Post:
Sex and City Hall
Discussion: Romenesko
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
War Costs Soar by a Third; Total Could Top $1.4 Trillion
Theo Spark:
Friday Islamic Nursery Rhyme Contest.
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Laura King / Los Angeles Times:
Errant Afghan civilian deaths surge
Discussion: INTEL DUMP
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Burn, baby, burn: GOP contenders' worry
Discussion: New York Times
Reuters:
Polish official says to sue CIA jail report author
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NATIONAL HEALTHCARE = TERRORISM....Conservatives want Americans …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Hamas won the propaganda war this week
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Ellen Goodman: The segregationist
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Where the Avatars Roam  —  I am not usually found at bars during …
Discussion: The Corner and FRAMESHOP
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Sacrifice Is for Suckers
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Simon Barnes / Times of London:
Fresh terror raids on Australian hospitals
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
With Bloomberg on Stage, Harsher Light on Giuliani
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls

 
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