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9:15 AM ET, May 10, 2007

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Nico / Think Progress:
NBC: 11 Republicans Berate Bush Over Iraq In Private White House Meeting  —  In a sign of the growing fissure between the White House and its congressional allies over the war, NBC News reports tonight that 11 Republican members of Congress pleaded yesterday with President Bush and his senior aides to change course in Iraq.
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
BREAKING: Conservative Dems expected to vote with GOP to give Bush unfettered blank check on Iraq tomorrow  —  It's time to replace some conservative Democrats in Washington, DC.  I just heard from an impeccable source that there is serious concern on the Hill that conservative Democrats …
Washington Post:
Bush Told War Is Harming The GOP  —  House Republican moderates, in a remarkably blunt White House meeting, warned President Bush this week that his pursuit of the war in Iraq is risking the future of the Republican Party and that he cannot count on GOP support for many more months.
Discussion: Slate
Guardian:
Blair quits as prime minister  —  Matthew Tempest and agencies  —  Tony Blair today announced he was stepping down after 10 years as prime minister and 13 as Labour leader.  —  The prime minister told a crowd of supporters in Trimdon Labour club he would stand down as PM on June 27.
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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Today, the beginning of the end  —  Tony Blair speaks during a visit to University College Hospital in London.  Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/Picture montage by Roger Tooth  —  Tony Blair will today return to Durham's Trimdon Labour Club, and the room where he launched his Labour leadership campaign …
Philip Webster / Times of London:
World tour is PM's way of bidding farewell  —  Tony Blair brings down the curtain on his decade as Prime Minister today as he announces a departure plan that will see him leave office towards the end of June.  —  But for much of his remaining six weeks in power Mr Blair will be absent from Downing Street …
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ABCNEWS:
Romney's Wife Gave Money to Planned Parenthood  —  Republican Abortion Opponent Accused of Shifting His Views  —  Former Gov. Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, gave an $150 donation to the abortion-rights group Planned Parenthood in 1994, at a time when Romney considered himself effectively "pro-choice," the Romney campaign confirmed today.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Missouri Prosecutor Says He Was Pushed to Resign  —  The former United States attorney in Kansas City, Mo., said Wednesday that he was pushed to resign last year after disagreements with the Justice Department over politically sensitive cases.  That would make him the ninth federal prosecutor forced …
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New York Times:
Gonzales Seems Confident He Will Stay, Officials Say
Discussion: AMERICAblog
New York Times:
Editorial: U.S. Attorneys, Reloaded
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CNN:
Romney: Sharpton remark bigoted … NEW YORK (CNN) — Civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who led the charge to have radio host Don Imus fired for making racially insensitive remarks, is now under fire for a comment about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith.
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Jebediah Reed / RADAR:
RUNNING WILD WITH MIKE GRAVEL  —  A long-shot candidate has his media moment  —  DEBATE AND SWITCH Presidential aspirant Mike Gravel in South Carolina  —  hat's him!" says a Today show producer.  All eyes focus on an old-fashioned Checker cab coming up Broadway, an odd relic in the teeming New York City traffic.
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Wayne Barrett / Village Voice:
The Yankees' Clean-Up Man  —  Rudy went to bat for the Yanks, and look what he scored.  —  The greatest love affair of Rudy Giuliani's life has become a sordid scandal.  —  His monogamous embrace of the Yankees as mayor was so fervent that when he tried to deliver a West Side stadium …
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
US Embassy: wear flak jackets, helmets  —  BAGHDAD - The U.S. Embassy has ordered its staff to wear flak jackets and helmets while outdoors or in unprotected buildings following an increase in mortar and rocket attacks against the heavily protected Green Zone.
Julia Gorin / Front Page Magazine:
Balkan Muslim Gratitude  —  On Monday, the FBI arrested six Muslims who were planning a commando-style attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey, to "kill as many soldiers as possible," authorities said.  —  Four of the six men are Albanians, a fact that Fox News — which apparently thinks that …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
China's Trade Time Bomb  —  It sometimes seems as if almost everything we buy comes from China: DVD players, computers, shoes, toys, socks.  This is, of course, a myth.  In 2006, imports from China totaled $288 billion, about 16 percent of all U.S. imports and equal to only 2 percent …
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David Kocieniewski / NYT > National:
6 Men Arrested in a Terror Plot Against Fort Dix
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