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Sources: Karr's DNA not a match, charges won't be filed — KUSA - 9NEWS has confirmed from two sources that the DNA taken from John Mark Karr does not match the DNA samples taken from the crime scene in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. — 9NEWS has also confirmed from different sources …
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Attorney: Karr won't be charged with JonBenet's murder — Adjust font size: — BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) — Schoolteacher John Mark Karr will not be charged with the murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant competitor JonBenet Ramsey, Karr's attorney said Monday.


John Mark Karr freed in JonBenet case — BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the scene despite his repeated insistence he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.


Shopping for Support Down the Wrong Aisle — Once upon a time, smart Democrats defended globalization, open trade and the companies that thrive within this system. They were wary of tethering themselves to an anti-trade labor movement that represents a dwindling fraction of the electorate.
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Wal-Mart's A Diversion — On any list of the nations major concerns …
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Blogosphere Unites in Pursuit of Masked Senator — Who's trying to stop the government from telling its citizens where their tax dollars are being spent? Help find out. — Just before the August recess, the Senate was set to vote on a bill co-sponsored by Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) …
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Why we don't believe you — Does the mainstream press ever wonder why conservatives distrust them so much? — If so, they need look no further than the "fauxtography" scandals of the last couple of weeks. Conservative bloggers have been hard at work sniffing out suspected fakery and staging …
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E&P buries correction on Mitchell's rewritten column from 2003
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FauxPhotography: The NYT cheesecake shot isn't photoshopped — Four different people have sent me this alleging that the mike cord has been photoshopped out: — Yeah, it looks weird, but there's an innocent explanation. And the site we owe our thanks to for getting to the bottom of it is ... no, I can't say it.

'Chris Matthews' Turns 5 — Chris Matthews' syndicated political talk show has its fifth anniversary next month. His MSNBC program Hardball may get more buzz, but The Chris Matthews Show, from NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, is a force as well.
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Shi'ite militia, Iraqi troops in fierce clashes — DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 20 Iraqi soldiers were killed in street fighting with Shi'ite militiamen in the town of Diwaniya on Monday, some of the bloodiest clashes yet among rival factions in Shi'ite southern Iraq.
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Getting Our House in Order? — Scout Prime has another fantastic post and video up at First Draft from the Rising Tide blogger's conference in New Orleans. She tells me that there will be some additional video up later today of an interview with the homeowner's daughter(s) …
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Associated Press, The Tattered Coat, Feministe, Norwegianity and skippy the bush kangaroo
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Year After Katrina, Bush Still Fights for 9/11 Image
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Oops: Impostor scams Louisiana officials — Adjust font size: — KENNER, Louisiana (CNN) — A man who pulled a hoax on Louisiana officials and 1,000 contractors by presenting himself as a federal housing official said Monday he intended to focus attention on a lack of affordable housing.
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Fox News Journalists Free After Declaring Conversion — Olaf Wiig, a cameraman for Fox News, was greeted with a hug after he and the reporter Steve Centanni, behind him to the right, were released by the Holy Jihad Brigades. They had been held for 13 days in Gaza.

Israeli general plots war with Iran — JERUSALEM — Israel has appointed a top general to oversee a war against Iran, prompting speculation that it is preparing for possible military action against Tehran's nuclear program. — Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, Israel's air force chief …


Best of the Web — Roll the Tape — Go to the link above to see our latest WSJ.com video, in which we discuss that frivolous antiwiretapping decision, the Democrats' war on Wal-Mart, and Hezbollah's counterfeiting. — Eternal Plame — Or at least it seemed that way.


Election In The Streets — How The Broadcast Networks Promote Illegal Immigration — Executive Summary — Spurred by a passionate public outcry against the tide of illegal immigration, on December 16, 2005, the House of Representatives passed a bill to curb the flow of illegal aliens …


Hostage Crisis — What is Kofi Annan doing for the kidnapped Israeli soldiers? — BY JUDEA PEARL AND RUTH PEARL — As the parents of Daniel Pearl, The Wall Street Journal's reporter who was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Pakistan in 2002, we share the anguish of the families …

America's Muslims Aren't as Assimilated as You Think — If only the Muslims in Europe — with their hearts focused on the Islamic world and their carry-on liquids poised for destruction in the West — could behave like the well-educated, secular and Americanizing Muslims in the United States, no one would have to worry.