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12:50 PM ET, May 29, 2006

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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Murtha: Iraq killings may hurt war effort  —  WASHINGTON - The deaths of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians and an ensuing cover-up threaten to do more harm to U.S. efforts in Iraq than even the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a prominent congressman and war critic says.
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Telegraph:
Four marines singled out in Iraq massacre investigation  —  A four-man team of United States Marines led the killing rampage in the Iraqi town of Haditha which resulted in the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians, military investigators believe.  —  The troops went from house to house shooting …
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
New Witness Describes Alleged Iraq Atrocity
Discussion: Hot Air
Kristin Roberts / Reuters:
Murtha: Iraqi killings worse than Abu Ghraib
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
Murtha: Marine Murder in Iraq?
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and US Politics
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Frist Backs Search of Congressman's Office  —  WASHINGTON — In a break with his counterparts in the House, the Senate's leader said Sunday the FBI was within its right to search the office of a congressman under investigation in a bribery case.  —  "No House member, no senator …
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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
Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Senate Leaders Profess Less Outrage on FBI Raid
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
A Few Years, and Then Another Bush?  —  WASHINGTON — Bush III?  Or has the dynasty run its course?  —  Those are the questions some Republicans are asking themselves as political talk bubbles up yet again about President Bush's brother Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and his interest in the White House.
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 …
Discussion: War and Piece
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
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 …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Althouse
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.
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Lois Rogers / Times of London:
Babies with club feet aborted
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
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
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 …
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign  —  In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed's firm sent out a mailer to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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 …
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
If Power Shifts In 2008  —  A Democrat Might Not Be as Different as You Would Think  —  Could the United States be better off with a Democrat in the White House in 2009?  Here are a couple of reasons the answer might be yes, even if you're not a Democrat.
Matthew Collin / BBC:
Iran Azeris protest over cartoon  —  There have been demonstrations in several parts of north-west Iran, with thousands of ethnic Azeris protesting at a newspaper cartoon.  —  Azeris said the cartoon, which was published earlier this month, compared them to cockroaches.
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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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Andrew Buncombe / Independent:
Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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Ellen Bork / Weekly Standard:
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
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