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Centre-left claims Italy victory — Italy's centre-left opposition has won a narrow victory in the lower house of parliament, official results say. — It won 49.8% of the vote against 49.7% for the centre-right, according to interior ministry figures. — The head of the centre-left coalition …
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Alessandra Rizzo / Associated Press:
Italian Election Remains Too Close to Call — ROME - Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving premier since World War II, was locked in a battle for power early Tuesday with center-left challenger Romano Prodi as vote projections from parliamentary election returns swung dramatically back and forth.
Maria Sanminiatelli / Associated Press:
Prodi Declares Victory in Italian Election — ROME - Italy's parliamentary election hung in the balance Tuesday as the country counted ballots cast by Italians living abroad, including in the United States, for six new Senate seats. — Near final returns showed opposition leader Romano …
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status — WASHINGTON, April 10 — Waving American flags and blue banners that read "We Are America," throngs of cheering, chanting immigrants and their supporters converged on the nation's capital and in scores of other cities on Monday calling …
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Washington Post:
'We Decided Not to Be Invisible Anymore' — Pro-Immigration Rallies Are Held Across Country — Hundreds of thousands of pro-immigration demonstrators mobilized on the Mall and in scores of cities across the country yesterday in a powerful display of grass-roots muscle-flexing that organizers …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Pressure, Frustration Mount — The immigrant demonstrators who flooded the streets of America's cities yesterday ratcheted up pressure on lawmakers to complete an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, while raising Republicans' frustration with President Bush for what they see as a muddled stand on the issue.
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DA Plans To Proceed With Case Despite No DNA Matches — Defense Attorneys Hope 'Community Healing' Can Begin — RALEIGH, N.C. — Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said he plans to move forward with his case against three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team despite DNA results …
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New York Times:
With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush in Spotlight — WASHINGTON, April 10 — From the early days of the C.I.A. leak investigation in 2003, the Bush White House has insisted there was no effort to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man who emerged as the most damaging critic of the administration's case …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Wowie Zahawie — Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger. — In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie.
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Mark Steyn / City Journal:
Facing Down Iran — Our lives depend on it. — Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill—America, Britain, Europe, Russia—and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia.
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MSNBC:
Annex Mexico? — One difference between the demonstrations in France and the demonstrations in America: The French are demonstrating for the right not to work hard, while the demonstrators in America mostly want to work. — And most of them, I think, really want that.
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House — WASHINGTON - Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
Monisha Bansal / CNSNews:
House Dem Committed 250 Ethics Violations, Group Says — (CNSNews.com) - U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) has committed over 250 violations of House ethics rules, according to a conservative legal watchdog group. — The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed a complaint …
Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO/PHOTO ESSAY: VIVA LA RAZA IN D.C. — So, my Sony Handycam and I attended the illegal alien demonstration in D.C. yesterday. Here are some of the more interesting moments captured on tape: — The goofy, out-of-place-looking, non-Spanish speaker on the right was standing on a street corner …
opinionatedbastard.com:
It's that Time of the Month — It's time for me to do my update on Iraq based on the Iraq Index from the Brookings Report. I was on vacation last week, so its one week late. — First off, US soldiers killed in Iraq continues to fall. This is the 5th straight month:
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
With Big Boost From Sugar Cane, Brazil Is Satisfying Its Fuel Needs — PIRACICABA, Brazil — At the dawn of the automobile age, Henry Ford predicted that "ethyl alcohol is the fuel of the future." With petroleum about $65 a barrel, President Bush has now embraced that view, too. But Brazil is already there.
Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
Getting Numbers Right: An Essential Part of Good Reporting — Having escaped from ten years of doing the Economic Reporting Review (ERR), I'm beginning "Beat the Press," with the single topic that took up the most cyberspace in ERR — putting numbers in context.
William Yardley / New York Times:
Dean Is Mum, but Brother Backs a Lieberman Rival — HARTFORD, April 10 — At the Connecticut Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey fund-raising dinner last month, James H. Dean was among the guests invited to sit at the table of Ned Lamont, a Greenwich cable television executive …
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
FRANCE SURRENDERS — France has scrapped its proposed youth jobs laws that allows workers in their first two years of employment to be fired at will. The idea behind the bill, backed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, was to give employers more incentive to hire the young by alleviating …
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Michelle Malkin:
LIVE FROM NEW YORK — Two correspondents who attended the New York anti-immigration enforcement demonstration have sent reports. — MacLachlan snapped photos posted over at his Flickr page and sends these comments: … Not yet, anyway. — Almighty Allah Pundit was also in attendance …
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