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4:15 PM ET, May 29, 2006

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CBS News:
Deadly Attack On CBS News Crew  —  Two Team Members Killed, Correspondent Seriously Injured By Roadside Bomb In Baghdad  —  (CBS/AP) Two members of a CBS News team, veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed and correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39 …
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CNN:
2 CBS News staff, U.S. soldier killed in Iraq blast
Discussion: Today in Iraq
New York Times:
Iran's Drive to Nuclear Fuel Slows, Diplomats Say  —  After boasting last month that it had joined the "nuclear club" by successfully enriching uranium on an industrial scale — and portraying its action as irreversible — Iran appears to have slowed its drive to produce nuclear fuel …
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Joschka Fischer / Washington Post:
The Case for Bargaining With Iran
Discussion: QandO and The Washington Monthly
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:   U.S. Urges Financial Sanctions On Iran
Michelle Malkin:
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE  —  The National Moment of Remembrance takes place at 3pm local time today for one minute.  Our minute-long tribute over at Hot Air is here.  —  La Shawn Barber shares reflections.  —  Castle Argghhh! has a three-part Memorial Day series.  Start here.
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Frist Breaks With Others in G.O.P. Over Raid  —  WASHINGTON, May 28 — Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, on Sunday defended the raid by federal agents on a Democratic lawmaker's Capitol Hill office, breaking with senior House Republicans who had said the search was unconstitutional.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Smash / The Indepundit:
Remember  —  EVERY YEAR, tens of thousands of people visit Cabrillo National Monument, on the tip of San Diego's Point Loma.  On either side of the road leading to the monument lies a cemetery.  —  Most people never stop, or even slow down, to think about the legions who lie in that massive graveyard.
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Smash / The Indepundit:
Memorial Day: A Mother Remembers
Discussion: Argghhh!, The Daily Brief and Wizbang
Owen West / New York Times:
The Troops Have Moved On  —  N EITHER party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.  Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease.  So said Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address …
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
Memorial Day  —  Reflections on those who made the ultimate sacrifice.  —  LONDON—In the Cotswold hills, in deep England, there is a pair of villages named Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter.  In addition to its rather gruesome name, Lower Slaughter possesses a unique distinction.
Discussion: Roger L. Simon and Decision '08
Stuart Pfeifer / Los Angeles Times:
Terms Differ in Jail Releases  —  Experts worry Sheriff Baca's policy of having certain prisoners serve more time for the same crime may invite `equal protection' challenges.  —  Under its policy of selectively releasing criminals to ease jail overcrowding, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department …
Daily Mail:
Babies aborted for not being perfect  —  The ethical storm over abortions has been renewed as it emerged that terminations are being carried out for minor, treatable birth defects.  —  Late terminations have been performed in recent years because the babies had club feet, official figures show.
Times of London:
MI5 at full stretch as 20 Islamist terror plots revealed  —  TWENTY "major conspiracies" by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed.  —  Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police …
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Rapper faces jail for song dissing France  —  One of France's most popular rappers will appear in court today charged with offending public decency with a song in which he referred to France as a "slut" and vowed to "piss" on Napoleon and Charles de Gaulle.  Monsieur R, whose real name …
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Mayor Says No National Bid, but Actions Keep Question Alive  —  For a man who says he is not running for president, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been sounding a lot like a candidate for the White House lately.  —  He spent last week thrusting himself into national politics …
Discussion: MyDD and Gothamist
Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:
Egypt democracy activist blogs from cell  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Even from his cell in an Egyptian prison, Alaa Abdel-Fattah is blogging — scribbling messages on slips of paper that make their way to the Internet and spread around the world.  —  The 24-year-old Abdel-Fattah's blog …
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
For Memorial Day: Editorials Still Oppose Iraq Withdrawals  —  NEW YORK Today marks another Memorial Day, this time with the American death toll in Iraq well past 2400 lives, with over 18,000 injured.  Just over six months have passed since hawkish Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) …
 
 
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Nick Cohen / Observer:
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Report: Israel threatened to bomb Beirut
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Diana / NoodleFood:
Pasnau on Churchill  —  This letter to the editor on the Ward …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush honors war dead at Arlington
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Haaretz:
U.K. lecturers' union approves academic boycott of Israel
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Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign
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Phillip Carter / intel-dump.com:
Memorial Day  —  Others have said it more eloquently than me.
Andrew Buncombe / Independent:
Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
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