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7:55 AM ET, May 30, 2006

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Washington Post:
Iraq Blast Kills Two On Crew For CBS  —  Reporter Wounded; Dozens Are Dead In Other Attacks  —  BAGHDAD, May 29 — A car bomb explosion in central Baghdad Monday killed two CBS News crew members, an Iraqi interpreter and a U.S. soldier, and severely wounded the news team's correspondent …
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
2 at CBS News Die in Baghdad on Bloody Day  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 29 — On a day of soaring violence in Baghdad, two Britons working as members of a CBS News television crew were killed on Monday and an American correspondent for the network was critically wounded when a military patrol they were accompanying was hit by a roadside bomb.
Discussion: Back to Iraq 3.0
Washington Post:
Baghdad Numb to Reports of Massacre
Discussion: Time, Hot Air and Thus Blogged Anderson
John Solo / Associated Press:
Reid Accepted Free Boxing Tickets While a Related Bill Was Pending  —  Senate Democratic Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing.
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Talk of Pelosi as Speaker Delights Both Parties  —  WASHINGTON, May 29 — Hoping to win a Congressional majority in November, some optimistic Democratic lawmakers have taken to referring to Representative Nancy Pelosi as "speaker," as in speaker of the House.  So have some optimistic Republicans.
White House:
President Bush Honors Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Laura and I are honored to join you today.  Thank you for coming.  Mr. Secretary, thank you for your kind words.  Members of my Cabinet, General Pace, Members of Congress …
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New York Times:
Bush Invokes the Fallen, Past and Present  —  ARLINGTON, Va., May 29 — President Bush paid homage to fallen members of the nation's military on Monday, using his annual Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery to draw a link between those who fought in an earlier era and those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Discussion: Roger Ailes
Reuters:
French youths clash with police in Paris suburbs  —  PARIS (Reuters) - Around a hundred youths clashed with police during the night after setting fire to cars and rubbish bins in a Paris suburb that was the scene of violent riots last November, a local official said on Tuesday.
Washington Post:
Accident Sparks Riot in Afghan Capital  —  Mobs Rampage After Fatal Crash Involving U.S. Military Truck; Curfew Imposed  —  KABUL, May 29 — The Afghan capital erupted Monday in the worst street violence since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, following a fatal traffic accident involving a U.S. military truck.
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Afghans Riot After Deadly Crash by U.S. Military Truck
Discussion: The Mahablog and AMERICAblog
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, May 29 — The U.S. military said Monday it was deploying the main reserve fighting force for Iraq, a full 3,500-member armored brigade, as emergency reinforcements for the embattled western province of Anbar, where a surge of violence linked …
Margaret Talbot / New Yorker:
THE AGITATOR  —  "Yesterday, I was hysterical," the Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci said.  She was telling me a story about a local dog owner and the liberties he'd allowed his animal to take in front of Fallaci's town house, on the Upper East Side.  Big mistake.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Washington Post:
Memorial Day  —  DOES REMEMBRANCE matter?  The Greek playwright Aeschylus was the author of dozens of works, and while most of them are lost to us, his "Oresteia" trilogy and "Seven Against Thebes" are among those that survive as jewels of world literature.
Discussion: Polimom Says
Matt Volz / Associated Press:
Knowles to run for governor  —  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles said Monday that he will run for a new term.  —  In an interview with The Associated Press, the two-term Democrat invoked Alaska's only three-term governor, fellow Democrat Bill Egan …
BBC:
Gore in Hay climate change plea  —  Former US vice-president Al Gore owned up to failing to get his climate change message across as a politician when he appeared at the Hay Festival.  —  In his first UK speech on the subject, Mr Gore promised to devote himself to the task of warning people about the impending "planetary emergency".
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Bush's Talk And Results On AIDS  —  The Bush administration's critics should give credit where it's due.  And when it comes to the global AIDS crisis, it is due — big-time.  —  Five years ago, the U.S. government's total contribution to fighting HIV-AIDS abroad stood at $840 million.
David S. Hilzenrath / Washington Post:
From public life to private business  —  William Cohen, the former defense secretary, made the transition lucrative  —  WASHINGTON - After more than 30 years in politics, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen was saddled with credit card debt.  —  The baker's son from Bangor, Maine …
Discussion: David Sirota
 
 
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