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New York Times:
Text: Obama's Speech in Cairo — The following is a text of President Obama's prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House. — I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions.
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New York Times:
Obama Calls for Alliances With Muslims — CAIRO — President Obama pledged on Thursday to “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world,” imploring America and the Islamic world to drop their suspicions of one another and forge new alliances to confront violent extremism and heal religious divides.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama seeks Islam ‘common ground’ — CAIRO - In remarks being translated live for broadcasts and Webcasts in every major language, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States wants “common ground” and “a new beginning” with the Muslim world, where America's image plummeted …
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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech — I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives. But reading the transcript, I was struck by two things:
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Associated Press:
Text of Obama's speech at Cairo University in Egypt — Text of President Barack Obama's speech at Cairo University, as provided by CQ Transcriptions. — Good afternoon. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions.
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Obama Calls for New Beginning With World's Muslims
Obama Calls for New Beginning With World's Muslims
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The Politico:
Gay groups grow impatient with Obama — President Barack Obama's promises of change are falling short for one core Democratic constituency: gays and lesbians, whose leaders say Obama's administration isn't keeping up with the times. — Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
A sheep in Wolffe's clothing? — It was Barack Obama himself who first proposed that Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe make a play to be this generation's Theodore White—the legendary journalist whose insider account of the 1960 election painted John F. Kennedy in heroic light.
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
RED ALERT: Did White House order FBI to “back off” anti-terror investigations of radicalized Muslim converts? — Today's update from Stratfor Research describes the background of a recent attack on U.S. soldiers in Little Rock, Arkansas. One soldier was killed and another critically wounded …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Liberals Are Taken Aback by Obama's Take-Back of America — President Obama is just killing the progressive movement. — For the past few years, liberal activists have gathered in Washington each spring for the Take Back America conference, where speaker after speaker …
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Police Swarm Tiananmen Square to Bar Protests — BEIJING — China blanketed Tiananmen Square with police officers Thursday, determined to prevent any commemoration of the 20th anniversary of a military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that left hundreds dead.
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Claudia Rosett / Wall Street Journal:
What I Saw at Tiananmen — China will be a modern country …
What I Saw at Tiananmen — China will be a modern country …
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Rush and Newt Are Winning — A media environment that tilts to the right is obscuring what President Obama stands for and closing off political options that should be part of the public discussion. — Yes, you read that correctly: If you doubt that there is a conservative inclination in the media …
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Paul Demko / Minnesota Independent:
Experts: Prognosis grim as Coleman runs out of legal options — Al Franken Photo: Paul Demko, Minnesota Independent — The end is near in the U.S. Senate contest. That might seem difficult to believe given that the fight has now dragged on for nearly seven months, but the bottom line …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Pawlenty: I'll Certify Franken's Election …
Pawlenty: I'll Certify Franken's Election …
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Minnesota Independent
Boston Globe:
N.H. becomes sixth state where gays can marry — Governor Lynch makes history with the stroke of a pen. — By Eric Moskowitz and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff — Traditionally conservative New Hampshire today became the sixth state in the nation — and the fifth state in New England …
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Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
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Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:
Internet Radio Host Hal Turner Faces Connecticut Charges — Radio host Hal Turner, shown during his broadcast over the Internet from his New Jersey home, was arrested in that state Wednesday on a warrant obtained by Capitol police in Hartford. Turner, who also hosts a blog …
Conor Clarke:
What Socialism Looks Like — Have you heard that the United States is headed toward socialism? Jonah Goldberg says it is. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby says it is. Phyllis Schlafly says it is. Richard Viguerie says it is. The Republican National Committee says it is. We must be getting pretty close.
Washington Post:
Gritty First Job Shaped Nominee — Years as N.Y. Prosecutor Gave Sotomayor Firsthand Look at Crime and Punishment — Former New York police detective Chris Montanino remembers his frustration nearly three decades ago, when he was ready to go after child-porn distributors but couldn't find …
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The BLT
Top Stories from CQ:
New York Throwdown: Maloney to Challenge Gillibrand in Senate Primary — Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney plans to announce a primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on her Web site Thursday morning, according to two sources including a member of New York's congressional delegation.
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
BIDEN BID TO BURY BONER — CALLS BACKING FOR DAVE ‘NONPOLITICAL’ — WASHINGTON — Gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden backtracked yesterday from comments he made at a Democratic fund-raiser in Manhattan that were widely viewed as an endorsement of Gov. Paterson's re-election.