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Mike Flannery / WBBM-TV:
CBS 2 Exclusive: Hastert Leaving Congress — News Conference Scheduled For Friday — (CBS) CHICAGO Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is in Asia, but he's scheduled a news conference in Kendall County for Friday. — CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports exclusively sources …
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Jonathan Allen / CQPolitics.com:
Hastert Planning to Retire at End of 2008, GOP Sources Say — After less than a year as a rank-and-file House member, former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert is expected to call an end to a political career that made him the longest serving Republican Speaker in the history of the House of Representatives.
CNN:
Dozens killed in multiple suicide attacks in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Suicide bombings in a northern Iraqi town Tuesday targeted a religious minority and left at least 120 people dead and 150 wounded, according to police officials, who said there were three bombings in three locations.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Fact Check: Obama on Afghanistan — WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama said it, the Republican Party pointed out in a screaming headline Tuesday that highlighted the presidential candidate's comments on Afghanistan and the killing of civilians. — Behind the scenes, Obama's rival campaigns buzzed …
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Kevin Landrigan / Nashuatelegraph.com:
Obama leaves some wanting a little more
Obama leaves some wanting a little more
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Karl Rove: Bush's Napoleon — Like the French emperor in Russia, Rove's villainy is caused mostly by his failure to quit after his high note in 2004. — There's an old maxim that if Napoleon had been struck by a cannon ball on his way toward Moscow, he would be remembered as an unrivaled military genius and liberator.
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Matthew Felling / CBS News:
Picking Bush's Brain
Picking Bush's Brain
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Pat Milton / Associated Press:
Imus Settles With CBS, May Make Comeback — NEW YORK — Don Imus has reached a settlement with CBS over his multimillion-dollar contract and is negotiating to resume his broadcasting career. — Imus and CBS Radio "have mutually agreed to settle claims that each had against the other regarding …
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Rule Change Shifts Death Penalty Responsibilities to Gonzales — Overwhelming evidence shows that Alberto Gonzales isn't fit to be attorney general. But despite that, his office continues to accrue important powers. Recently, the FISA bill took oversight powers from the Foreign Intelligence …
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Rudolph Giuliani / Foreign Affairs:
Toward a Realistic Peace — Summary: The next U.S. president will face three key foreign policy challenges: setting a course for victory in the terrorists' war on global order, strengthening the international system the terrorists seek to destroy, and extending the system's benefits.
Chris / TVNewser:
Half Hour News Hour Shelved — First on TVNewser: In a memo to senior producers this afternoon, FNC's SVP of programming, Bill Shine announced the network "will not continue the Half Hour News Hour beyond its current 15 episode run." Shine did leave the door open, however …
Dion Nissenbaum / Yahoo! News:
Hamas TV's child star says she's ready for martyrdom — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bellbottom jeans as she twisted on a chair inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters. The afternoon light bounced off the sparkly outlines of butterflies …
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton's first-lady records locked up — Archivists say the documents at her husband's presidential library won't be released until after the '08 vote. — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president …
John Borland / Wired News:
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign — On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically …
onpointradio.org:
Report Card on Iraq — Michael O'Hanlon and Anthony Cordesman, two big Middle East watchers just back from Iraq, give us their differing takes on what lies ahead for the country. — Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
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John Tierney / New York Times:
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch — Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby. I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version …
Frank Franklin II / ABCNEWS:
Giuliani Vows to End Illegal Immigration — Mayor's Campaign Hits Romney Back on Issue, Defends Record — A week after being assailed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for being soft on illegal immigration as mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani today unveiled the details of his plan …