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2:20 PM ET, June 19, 2006

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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Democrats set to call for phased pullout  —  Congressional debate on war enters 2d week  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats, seizing on public discontent over the war in Iraq, will offer legislation this week calling for a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq and a shifting of forces …
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Associated Press:
Snow: Polls won't influence Iraq strategy  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush understands there is growing U.S. concern over his handling of the Iraq war but will not rely on polls to determine when to withdraw troops, his spokesman said Sunday.  —  "The president understands how a war can wear on a nation …
Juan / Informed Comment:
Bush's Abuse of History  —  Snow's Battle of Bilge  —  The president of the United States is in some ways the nation's leading public historian.  More people hear about American history from him than from virtually any other source, with the possible exception of Hollywood.
CNN:
Al Qaeda-linked group claims it kidnapped 2 U.S. soldiers  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — An al Qaeda-affiliated group on Monday claimed it kidnapped two U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad, although the captives were not named.  —  The group — Mujahedeen Shura Council — made the unverified claim in a statement posted on a Web site.
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Newsweek:
Doubts About Duke  —  The prosecutor insists his rape case is strong.  One big problem: the facts thus far.  —  June 29, 2006 issue - The order had come, signed by a judge, requiring that the Duke lacrosse team give DNA samples.  The prosecutor was trying to identify the three players …
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ABCNEWS:
ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Durham Republicans to Challenge District Attorney Over Duke Case  —  Frustration Over Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Investigation Weighs Heavily in GOP Challenge  —  June 19, 2006 — The Durham Republican Party will field a candidate to run against the district attorney leading …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Janine Zacharia / Bloomberg:
Zoellick Leaving State Department, to Join Goldman (Update1)  —  June 19 (Bloomberg) — Robert Zoellick resigned as deputy U.S. secretary of state and said he will take a job with Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., the world's biggest securities firm by market value.
Discussion: TAPPED
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Deputy Secretary of State Zoellick Resigning
Discussion: Think Progress
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Hastert Won't Fess Up To Honest Graft  —  Last week, we noted House Speaker Dennis Hastert's (R-IL) sweet real estate deal - a deal that, as many TPM readers pointed out, Tammany Hall pol George Washington Plunkitt would have dismissed as " honest graft."  "I seen my opportunities and I took 'em," Hastert might say.
USA Today:
NBC's chief confident on 'Today,' Brian Williams vs. Couric  —  E-mail Peter Johnson at pjohnson@usatoday.com  —  Just two weeks after CBS Evening News-bound Katie Couric said a tearful goodbye to NBC's Today, her old boss now sings the praises of her successor, Meredith Vieira …
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Will Primary  —  MIDDLETOWN — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman said today that he will not withdraw from the Aug. 8 Democratic primary , but he left open the possibility of running in November as a petitioning candidate if he loses the primary.  —  "I will be in the Democratic primary.
Los Angeles Times:
Inland Empire Pays Firm for D.C. Clout  —  Why local entities hired the concern when Rep. Jerry Lewis has long delivered U.S. funds to his district isn't clear.  The lobbyist is one of his key donors.  —  WASHINGTON — Growing up in the Inland Empire, Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands) …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker, MyDD and Washington Post
Reuters:
Louisiana gov. signs law that would ban abortions  —  NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Louisiana Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed into law a ban on most abortions, which would be triggered if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 ruling legalizing the procedure, a spokesman said on Saturday.
Discussion: Feministe
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Trying to Get Even  —  Democrats keep betting on failure in Iraq.  —  During last week's congressional debate over the war in Iraq, critics of the Bush administration's policy made three arguments: that President Bush more or less lied when claiming Saddam Hussein was a threat to the U.S. …
Time:
Why Bush Is (Still) Winning the War at Home  —  "I was up there in the cockpit of that airplane coming into Baghdad," the President told the press corps assembled on the White House lawn after his dash into and out of the war zone last week.  "It was an unbelievable, unbelievable feeling."
Colin Randall / Telegraph:
'Mlle Thatcher' to run for a seat in parliament  —  Sabine Hérold, who sprang to fame when she led a protest movement against French workers' readiness to go on strike, now hopes to exploit growing disillusionment with her country's political elite by winning a seat in parliament.
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Mideast Analysis, Fast and Furious  —  WHEN an Iraqi insurgent group releases a new videotape or claims responsibility for an attack, Western reporters in Baghdad rarely hear about it firsthand.  Nor do they usually get the news from their in-house Iraqi translators.
Philip McKenna / Boston Globe:
Can this spread be stopped?  —  Lawmaker wants schools to put a lid on Fluff  —  The escalating war on junk food in schools has targeted a new enemy — that gooey, sugary, and often irresistible sandwich spread known to children everywhere as Fluff.  —  Outraged that his son …
Discussion: TAPPED and Hit and Run
Jay Rosen / Washington Post:
Web Users Open the Gates  —  A decade after major news providers such as The Washington Post began publishing on the Internet, they are finally beginning to ask the right questions about what the Web can do for them and their readers — and to realize how disruptive web technology is to traditional journalism.
Discussion: The Horse's Mouth
 
 
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Sweetness & Light:
Hammurabi's Other Member?  —  Followers of the Haditha news …
Carol Vogel / New York Times:
Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait
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Ginger Thompson / New York Times:
Mexico Worries About Its Own Southern Border
Examiner:
Freedom of speech and thought R.I.P.
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