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11:20 AM ET, October 26, 2006

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David W. Chen / New York Times:
New Jersey Court Backs Full Rights for Gay Couples  —  Cindy Meneghin, right, and her partner, Maureen Kilian, heard about the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage Wednesday at their lawyer's office in Newark.  With them was Sarah, left, their daughter.
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Washington Post:
N.J. Ruling Mandates Rights for Gay Unions  —  State Court Does Not Specify 'Marriage'  —  The New Jersey Supreme Court left the door ajar for the approval of same-sex marriage Wednesday, ruling that gay couples are entitled to rights no different from those of heterosexual couples.
Geoff Mulvihill / Associated Press:
NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK
Discussion: Blogcritics
Jonathan S. Landay / Real Cities:
Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning.
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White House:
Interview of the Vice President by Scott Hennen, WDAY at Radio Day at the White House  —  Q I've had the honor of introducing our next guest at Cabela's in East Grand Forks, Minnesota.  I've interviewed him just off the MSUM Dragon gym floor in Moorehead, even at his hotel suite in St. Paul …
Discussion: The Heretik
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann Gives Us The Visual To Limbaugh's Attack On Michael J. Fox  —  By now everyone has heard Limbaugh's little commentary about Michael J. Fox's appearance in the ad for Claire McCaskill.  Well tonight Keith Olbermann supplied us with the visual to accompany Rush's latest show of idiocy.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Connecticut Crucible for a War Debate  —  When the three candidates in Connecticut's celebrated Senate race met for their final debate on Monday night in New London, only one of them appeared to be having a good time.  —  It was not Ned Lamont, the tense and fidgety businessman who had captured …
Discussion: QandO, MyDD and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Michael Barone / US News:
An Interview With President Bush  —  This afternoon I had the privilege of being one of eight columnists interviewing George W. Bush in the Oval Office.  The others were Tony Blankley of the Washington Times, Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal, Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post …
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
Ad Seen as Playing to Racial Fears  —  The Tennessee Senate race, one of the most competitive and potentially decisive battles of the midterm election, became even more unpredictable this week after a furor over a Republican television commercial that stood out even in a year of negative advertising.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and First Read
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Jackson Baker / Memphis Flyer:
POLITICS: Et YouTube, Brute?
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Rights Group Fires Publisher of Foley E-Mail  —  A liberal gay rights group said Wednesday that one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation.
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:   Foley investigators near end of witnesses
The Smoking Gun:
Jane Pauley Sues New York Times  —  Broadcaster claims fraud over appearance in drug industry advertorial  —  Claiming that The New York Times duped her into granting an interview for what turned out to be a drug company-funded advertising supplement, Jane Pauley has sued the newspaper for fraud.
Discussion: Gawker and Don Surber
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Democrats lead in US election-Reuters poll  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters strongly favor Democratic candidates over Republicans in the Nov. 7 congressional election and harbor growing doubts about the Iraq war and the country's future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Thursday.
Agence France Presse:
Argentina charges Iran, Hezbollah in 1994 Jewish center bombing  —  BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Argentine prosecutors charged Iran and the Shiite militia Hezbollah with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities office in Argentina that killed 85 people and injured 300.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
The Glenn and Helen Show: Gov. Mark Warner on Politics, Family, and Not Running for President  —  Mark Warner looked to be the strongest Democratic contender for President in 2008 except for Hillary Clinton.  We'd been slated to interview him when he decided not to run …
Discussion: Politics Central
Tony Paterson / Independent:
German ministers 'knew about CIA torture cells'  —  The German government is alleged to have received first-hand evidence that the CIA began torturing terrorist suspects at secret prisons in Europe shortly after the September 11 attacks, despite claiming it only knew about such sites through the media.
Discussion: Deutsche Welle and Balloon Juice
 
 
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Bill Turque / Washington Post:
An Ascent Shadowed By Questions on Race
Discussion: The Caucus
Ben Adler / TAPPED:
BUT HE STARTED IT.  I've long been of the opinion, in all seriousness …
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights
Ralph Kinney Bennett / TCS Daily:
Goodbye, Jelly Bean
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
BBC:
Youths torch two buses near Paris
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
In Syria, Iraq's Fate Silences Rights Activists
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Bush's Proposal of 'Benchmarks' for Iraq Sounds Familiar
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Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Watchdog Group Accuses Churches of Political Action
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Frank Smyth / chicagoreader.com:
The Republican from Illinois, one of the most powerful men …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Clinton digs deep, seeking landslide win
Kwang-Tae Kim / Associated Press:
Report: S.Korea to ban entry from North
Pete Donohue / NY Daily News:
Girls' room his, too  —  Transgender men free to use ALL of MTA's loos
Tim Paradis / Associated Press:
Dow Ends Up; Fed Raises Inflation Fears
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