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Split threatens to rupture Republican ranks — Conservative vs. moderate divide plays out across the airwaves on Sunday — WASHINGTON - The conservative vs. moderate split threatening to rupture the Republican Party played out across the airwaves Sunday, with Colin Powell …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:Powell Jousts With Cheney on Path of Republican Party
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CNN:STATE OF THE UNION WITH JOHN KING
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Claims to Conduct 2nd Nuclear Test — SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea announced on Monday it had successfully conducted its second nuclear test, defying international warnings and drastically raising the stakes in a global effort to get the recalcitrant Communist state to give up its nuclear weapons program.
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Announces 2nd Test of Nuclear Device — SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea announced on Monday that it had successfully conducted its second nuclear test, defying international warnings and dramatically raising the stakes in a global effort to persuade the recalcitrant Communist state to give up its weapons program.
Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Tests Second Nuclear Device, Fires Short-Range Missiles — North Korea made its second test of a nuclear explosive on Monday and declared it was more destructive than the first, an advance that is likely to further embolden Kim Jong Il's regime in its standoff with the U.S …
BBC:
North Korea conducts nuclear test — North Korea has staged a “successful” underground nuclear test, the state-run KCNA agency reports. — The agency says it was more powerful than the previous one in October 2006. — A number of external agencies have confirmed a powerful explosion took place …
Adm. Mike Mullen / ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen — Exclusive Interview with President Barack Obama's Top Military Official — ABC'S “THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS” SPEAKERS: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST — STEPHANOPOULOS (voice-over): Good morning, and welcome to THIS WEEK.
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:They May Not Want The Bomb
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Court Officials Turn to Guards, Identity Shields, Weapons to Handle New Threats — Worried Court Personnel Resort To Guards, Identity Shields, Weapons — Threats against the nation's judges and prosecutors have sharply increased, prompting hundreds to get 24-hour protection from armed U.S. marshals.
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The Politico:
Conservatives itching for SCOTUS fight — As Barack Obama prepares to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, conservative activists have three words for Senate Republicans: Lock and load. — While conservatives know that they can't defeat Obama's nominee without massive Democratic defections …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Justice Department Investigates Mountaintop Technologies Over Murtha Earmarks — In tiny, cash-strapped Monongahela, Pa., the city clerk was stunned when federal investigators arrived this fall with a subpoena seeking information on a crime-fighting grant she'd never heard of.
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New York Times:
Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure — As job losses rise, growing numbers of American homeowners with once solid credit are falling behind on their mortgages, amplifying a wave of foreclosures. — In the latest phase of the nation's real estate disaster, the locus of trouble …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Clinton to Announce Benefits for Partners of Gay U.S. Diplomats — Draft Memo Outlines New Foreign Service Policies for All Unmarried Couples — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that the partners of gay U.S. diplomats are eligible for many benefits currently denied …
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Scott Curkin / ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Explosion outside UES Starbucks — NEW YORK (WABC) — An explosive device blew out the windows of a Starbucks coffee shop in a blast that rocked an Upper East Side neighborhood. — The loud blast was heard at the intersection of Third Avenue and East 92nd Street just before 4 a.m.
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Annie Karni / New York Post:
DE'TAT'CHED ATTITUDE — JOB SEEKERS ERASING BODY ART TO COMPETE — When the Dow is low, the “tramp stamp” has to go. — Dermatologists across the city are reporting a boom in tattoo laser removals, as body-art fanatics fretting over their professional image rush to erase their inky mistakes.
Reza Sayah / CNN:
Thousands gather to hear, cheer Iran's Michelle Obama — TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Dancing in public is not allowed in Iran, but thousands could hardly contain themselves at a recent presidential campaign rally in the capital city, Tehran. — On this day, the deafening cheers …
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Michelle Malkin:
Memorial Day 2009: Giving thanks for those who made the ultimate sacrifice — Engraved on the Korean War Memorial: — Pearl Harbor: — The Blue Angels' missing man formation: — Words and men I'll never forget: — “He felt that what we were doing was just and right.”
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