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Leaders Warn Iran Over Nuclear Site — PITTSBURGH — President Obama and leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years.
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Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant — President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain on Friday blasted Iran's construction of a previously unknown uranium enrichment facility and demanded that Tehran immediately fulfill its obligations under international law or risk the imposition of harsh new sanctions.
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
MEDVEDEV ON OBAMA, IRAN — From NBC's Andrea Mitchell — According to representatives of the Russian government, Russia's President Medvedev praised President Obama effusively during a question-and-answer session with students at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Marc Lynch:
The Iran nuclear revelation — Last night, President Obama along with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Nikolas Sarkozy announced that the IAEA had been presented with detailed evidence about the existence of a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear enrichment facility.
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Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
Iran admits building covert enrichment facility (UPDATED)
Iran admits building covert enrichment facility (UPDATED)
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising — Complacency, Absence of Big Donors Cited — Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers …
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New York Times:
In Poll, Public Wary of Obama on War and Health — President Obama is confronting declining support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan and an electorate confused and anxious about a health care overhaul as he prepares for pivotal battles over both issues, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Public Thinks GOP Doesn't Want Compromise, But Wants Obama To Keep Trying Anyway
Public Thinks GOP Doesn't Want Compromise, But Wants Obama To Keep Trying Anyway
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Dallas Morning News:
Man arrested in alleged attempt to bomb Dallas skyscraper — Staff reports — Federal authorities arrested a 19-year-old Jordanian citizen whom they said placed an inactive car bomb today at Fountain Place, a 60-story skyscraper in downtown Dallas.
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Boston Globe:
Ruling expected by noon on GOP bid to block Kirk appointment — A Suffolk Superior Court judge has promised to decide before noon today whether to grant a request by the state Republican Party to block the appointment of Democrat Paul G. Kirk Jr. as interim US senator.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Afghan Imperative — Always there is the illusion of the easy path. Always there is the illusion, which gripped Donald Rumsfeld and now grips many Democrats, that you can fight a counterinsurgency war with a light footprint, with cruise missiles, with special forces operations and unmanned drones.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
So Off Message — From the new Times/CBS poll out this evening ... “Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?”
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Washington Post:
White House Regroups on Guantanamo — With four months left to meet its self-imposed deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration is working to recover from missteps that have put officials behind schedule and left them struggling to win the cooperation of Congress.
New York Post:
Translator collapsed during Khadafy's rambling diatribe — After struggling to turn Khadafy's insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator's personal interpreter got lost in translation. — “I just can't take it any more,” Khadafy's interpreter shouted into the live microphone - in Arabic.
Ehud Barak / Wall Street Journal:
At the U.N., Terrorism Pays — It was my duty as defense minister to stop Hamas rockets. — Printer — Friendly — This week the United Nation's Human Rights Council produced a 600-page report alleging that Israel carried out war crimes in Gaza. The Goldstone Report …
Fox News:
Elementary School Students Taught to Sing Praises of President Obama — Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for “Barack Hussein Obama,” as they repeatedly chant the president's name and celebrate his accomplishments.
Ezra Klein:
Why France's Health Care Is So Good, The Public Option So Bad and the Co-Ops So Incomplete: An Interview With Kent Conrad. — Sen. Kent Conrad chairs the Budget Committee, serves on the Finance Committee and was a member of the Gang of Six. I spoke to Conrad today about what Americans …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's Easy Being Green — So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents? — If so, you'll love the next big debate: the fight over climate change.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justice Ginsburg Is Hospitalized As Precaution — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Washington Hospital Center on Thursday when she fell ill at the court after being treated for an iron deficiency. — Ginsburg, 76, “developed light headedness and fatigue” …