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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Ahmadinejad Is Declared Victor, but Rival Protests — TEHRAN —President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran's presidential election in a landslide, officials of Iran's election commission said Saturday morning. But his main rival, Mir Hussein Moussavi, had already announced defiantly just two hours …
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Red Alert: Iran's Election Results (Open Access) — The Iranian election is currently in turmoil. Both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi are claiming to be ahead in the vote. Preliminary results from the presidential vote show Ahmadinejad leading …
Laura Rozen / The Cable:
Iran elections (UPDATED) — Leading Iranian opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was due to give a press conference at 2pm Saturday Tehran time (8 1/2 hours ahead of EST), sources said. The anticipated address comes after a tense night in Iran in which state organs proclaimed …
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James Rosen / Fox News:
Official: Obama Administration Skeptical of Iran's Election Results — U.S. analysts find it “not credible” that Mir Hossein Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown, or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote, a senior U.S. official told FOX News.
Washington Post:
Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Iran Election — Clashes Break Out Among Voters as Challenger Mousavi Disputes Results — Iran's Interior Ministry declared Saturday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a decisive victory in Friday's presidential election, but the incumbent's leading challenger protested …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A Nation Of Law — Lars Thorwald has a strong post on why Obama's DOJ brief in defense of DOMA is in fact a keeping of a promise: to restore the rule of law after eight years of abuse. I take every point he makes. Read the whole thing. — After this back-and-forth today …
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Declan McCullagh / CBS News:
Gay Rights Groups Irate After Obama Administration Lauds Defense Of Marriage Act
Gay Rights Groups Irate After Obama Administration Lauds Defense Of Marriage Act
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Dale Carpenter / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Fierce advocacy: Continuity continues. The Obama Justice …
Fierce advocacy: Continuity continues. The Obama Justice …
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BBC:
US Guantanamo deal ‘kept from UK’ — The US made a secret deal with Bermuda - a British overseas territory - to accept the Uighur detainees — A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London ahead of time about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.
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Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo
Bermudan, U.S. Governments Take Hits for Moving Uighurs Out of Guantanamo
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama plan to pay for health reform — President Barack Obama says he's now found savings that will pay almost all the costs of a massive overhaul of America's health care system. — Obama on Saturday is announcing an additional $313 billion in new proposed savings that he says would bring …
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Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
House Health-Care Bill to Include $600 Billion in Tax Increases — Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Blogger's baby was a hoax — Woman captivates thousands in anti-abortion movement with false story of difficult pregnancy — Beccah Beushausen photographed near her home, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. (David Pierini / Chicago Tribune / June 10, 2009) — The unmarried mother's story …
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Lender's Role for Fed Makes Some Uneasy — WASHINGTON — For most of its history, the Federal Reserve has been a high temple of monetary matters, guiding the economy by setting interest rates but remaining aloof from the messy details of day-to-day business.
Tom Leonard / Telegraph:
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive — Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. — The government looking at expanding …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits' Journalism — Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources.
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Fox News:
New York Lawmaker Calls on CBS to Fire Letterman for Palin Comments — New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, a Republican, is calling on the CEO of CBS to fire David Letterman for crude comments he made about Sarah Palin and her daughter. — In the letter to CBS chief Les Moonves …
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
The Audacity of Bullying — Peter Beinart pens a column in which he, I think inadvertently, suggests just how ill-conceived Obama's overt hostility toward Israel is. Beinart suggests the president is doing it to show he's a tough guy, and because he can get away with it. He writes:
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Dave Altimari / Hartford Courant:
Dodd's Irish Cottage: Was $190,000. Now $658,000 — Christopher Dodd house in Ireland (HANDOUT / March 6, 2009) — A new appraisal of the Irish cottage owned by Sen. Christopher Dodd concludes that it is worth about three times as much as Dodd has been reporting on his financial disclosure forms.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Bush Lawyer Ordered to Testify — A federal judge has ruled that John Yoo, a former Bush administration lawyer who wrote crucial memorandums justifying harsh interrogation techniques, will have to answer in court to accusations that his work led to a prisoner's being tortured and deprived of his constitutional rights.
Kori Schake / Shadow Government:
Remember Iraq? You will soon enough — Iraq is receding from our national consciousness (Stephen Colbert's efforts to remind us about the war notwithstanding). The combined effects of the success of the surge, President Bush signing a restrictive Status of Forces Agreement …
New York Times:
Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan — WASHINGTON — A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations …