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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Final Tally Shows Iraqi Voters Approved New Constitution  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 25 - Iraqi electoral officials announced today that a new constitution had been approved by voters, enshrining a legal foundation for the future governance of the country and paving the way for elections for a full-term government in December.
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Associated Press:
Iraq's Constitution is Adopted  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's landmark constitutional was adopted by a majority of voters during the country's Oct. 15 referendum, election officials said Tuesday.  —  Results released by the Independent Electoral Commission (search) of Iraq showed that Sunni Arabs …
Discussion: Big Lizards and Daly Thoughts
CNN:
Iraqi draft constitution passes, election officials say  —  Two U.S. Marines killed in Anbar province  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The referendum on Iraq's draft constitution has passed, according to final provisional results issued Tuesday by Iraqi election officials.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Barcepundit
Agence France Presse:
US death toll in Iraq hits 2,000  —  BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US death toll in Iraq reportedly hit 2,000 amid a sharp spike in violence that killed 14 Iraqis as the nation awaited results of a key vote on a charter aimed at curbing sectarian violence.  —  The US network CNN, quoting Pentagon sources …
Discussion: Mathew Gross and The Agonist
BBC:   Iraq voters back new constitution
Associated Press:
Draft Constitution Adopted by Iraqi Voters
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Rosa Parks, 1913-2005  —  Call her "the woman who refused to get up," but I'm sure Rosa Parks had no idea what her tired feet and frustrating treatment would lead to on December 1, 1955.  —  What became known as the Civil Rights movement was bound to start sooner or later.
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Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Civil Rights Icon Dies at Age 92  —  Rosa Parks, the dignified African American seamstress whose refusal to surrender a bus seat to a white man launched the modern civil rights movement and inspired generations of activists, died last night at her home in Detroit, the Wayne County medical examiner's office said.
E. R. Shipp / New York Times:
Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies  —  Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's …
Bree Fowler / Associated Press:
Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and ACSBlog
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
What Rice Can't See  —  Like a lot of African Americans …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and THE NEWS BLOG
Cassandra Spratling / Detroit Free Press:   Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine, is dead
Times of London:
US Senate 'finds Iraq oil cash in Galloway's wife's bank account'  —  From James Bone in New York and David Charter in Washington  —  GEORGE GALLOWAY faces possible criminal charges after a US Senate investigation tracked $150,000 (£85,000) in Iraqi oil money to his wife's bank account in Jordan.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
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BBC:
Galloway challenges US senators
Francis Harris / Telegraph:
Galloway's wife 'received £100,000 from Iraqis'
Fausta / The Bad Hair Blog:   Mr. Galloway went to Washington so he could lie …
Sissy Willis / sisu:   "We have what we call the smoking gun"
New York Times:
Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003 …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Dick Cheney: Perjury, Bitches, Perjury!
Discussion: NO QUARTER, Blogenlust and The Mahablog
New York Times:
Bush Refuses to Release Nominee's Papers  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - President Bush refused on Monday to turn over documents requested by Republicans and Democrats related to Harriet E. Miers's work in the White House, setting up a potential confrontation with the Senate Judiciary Committee over her confirmation to the Supreme Court.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
White House Is Seeking Exception in Detainee Abuse Ban  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - Stepping up a confrontation with the Senate over the handling of detainees, the White House is insisting that the Central Intelligence Agency be exempted from a proposed ban on abusive treatment of suspected Qaeda militants and other terrorists.
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Washington Post:
Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees
Discussion: David Corn and AMERICAblog
Washington Post:
Presidents Past Inspire Bush's Damage Control  —  Facing a convergence of crises threatening his administration, President Bush and his team are devising plans to salvage the remainder of his presidency by applying the lessons of past two-term chief executives and refocusing attention …
Lawrence B. Wilkerson / Los Angeles Times:
The White House cabal  —  IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal.  It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney …
Washington Post:
Husband Is Conspicuous in Leak Case  —  Wilson's Credibility Debated as Charges In Probe Considered  —  To his backers, Joseph C. Wilson IV is a brave whistle-blower wronged by the Bush administration.  To his critics, he is a partisan who spouts unreliable information.
Reuters:
20 fined for using letters W and Q  —  DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) — A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.

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