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Des Moines Register:
The Register's caucus endorsements: McCain, Clinton — The Des Moines Register's editorial board has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa caucuses. — The Register, Iowa's statewide newspaper, calls McCain and Clinton the candidates …
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Democratic endorsement editorial: Why Clinton — THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL BOARD — A deep, talented field in the Democratic caucus race offers both good and difficult choices. — No fewer than three candidates would, by their very identity, usher the nation to the doorstep of history.
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Boston Globe:
Globe endorses McCain, Obama — Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have been endorsed by The Boston Globe editorial board ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Jan. 8 in New Hampshire. — The board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for …
Des Moines Register:
Republican endorsement editorial: Why McCain — THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL BOARD — The leading candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president present an intriguing mix of priorities, personalities and life stories. — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani inspired the city …
Boston Globe:
For the Democrats: Barack Obama — From the endorsement editorial: — The most sobering challenges that face this country — terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics — are global. America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Spotlight on John Edwards — John Edwards makes the cover of Newsweek and is the subject of a five page article. He's also on several of the Sunday morning shows today. — He's still fighting hard in Iowa, touting his willingness to fight for Democrats.
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Newsweek:
The Road Warrior — Even if he loses in Iowa's bigger cities, Edwards can still win by wrapping up smaller, far-flung precincts. — Jonathan Torgovnik for Newsweek — Conceit or Conviction? Edwards (in Iowa last week with actor Tim Robbins aboard the candidate's campaign bus) is running hard to pull off a come-from-behind win
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John Cochran / ABCNEWS:
Congress Defies Bush on CIA Tape Probe — House Will Continue Investigation Despite White House Request to Drop It — House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes told ABC News today that he will ignore the Bush administration's request to drop its investigation of why CIA interrogation tapes were destroyed.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Destruction of CIA Tapes Defended — The Bush administration has told a federal judge that its 2005 destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes did not violate a court order because the captives in question were being kept in secret prisons at the time, not at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Helena DeMoura / CNN:
Four Bolivian regions declare autonomy from government — (CNN) — Tensions were rising in Bolivia on Saturday as members of the country's four highest natural gas-producing regions declared autonomy from the central government. — Thousands waved the Santa Cruz region's green-and-white flags …
PBS:
Bill Moyers talks with MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. — BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the journal. We have a lot of ground to cover in this hour - from journalism and media merger mania to politics and race. First, despite the clutter and conglomeration in commercial broadcasting …
Michael Leahy / Washington Post:
Pledging Allegiance — New York was warm on that spring day in 1961, remembers Jack O'Leary, a teacher and role model for 17-year-old Rudy Giuliani, and a confidant for the boy's father, Harold Giuliani. Harold had asked O'Leary, then a member of the De La Salle Christian Brothers …
Bryan Walsh / Time:
Who Won and Lost at Bali — In the nearly a decade since the U.S. rejected the landmark climate change agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol, the U.S. has become accustomed to being attacked at U.N. environmental gatherings. But the pounding it took in the tortured all-night negotiations …
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Charles Moore / Telegraph:
Newsnight told a small story over a big one — It is a weakness, no doubt, in a journalist, but I normally do not watch Newsnight, the BBC's "flagship" current affairs programme. — The programme's strange menu of preachy reports followed by all-in wrestling with Jeremy Paxman, does not, for me, round off the day pleasantly.