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9:10 AM ET, June 14, 2007

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Associated Press:
Key security HQ in Gaza City, last Fatah stronghold, falls  —  Hamas fighters overran Fatah-allied Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday, a key target in their battle to control the entire Gaza Strip, witnesses and a security agency official said.
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Hamas Seizes Base In Gaza  —  Hamas gunmen wrested control of a key security base in Gaza City from the rival Fatah movement Thursday morning, further consolidating their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip.  —  Palestinian hospital officials said at least 14 people were killed …
Haaretz:
Southern Gaza town of Rafah falls to Hamas  —  The southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah fell on Thursday to Hamas fighters, witnesses and security officials said.  —  Rafah is Hamas' latest conquest in its near-complete takeover of the Gaza Strip.  Earlier in the day, Hamas gunmen overran …
Discussion: Israellycool and Neptunus Lex
Helene Cooper / New York Times:   Few Good Options for U.S. on Palestinian Violence
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
No Drop in Iraq Violence Seen Since Troop Buildup  —  Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar …
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Efforts to Avert Sectarian Reprisals After Shrine Attack  —  Left, a file photo from December 2003 shows the two minarets and the Golden Dome of the al-Askari mosque in Samarra.  At right, the mosque after the attack on the minarets on Wednesday.  The dome was destroyed in a 2006 attack.  More Photos >
Agence France Presse:
Sunni mosques attacked after Shiite shrine bombing
Discussion: The Newshoggers
StrategyPage:
Why The Most Important Stuff Is Not Reported
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Reid labels military leader 'incompetent'  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Immigration Bill In Harry Reid's Court  —  It is hard to say who looked worse in the Senate's impasse on immigration legislation — Democrats or Republicans — but the responsibility for reviving that measure clearly rests most heavily on the shoulders of Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Bush lobbies Senate on immigration
Discussion: Right Wing News and Betsy's Page
John Solomon / Washington Post:
FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data  —  An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years …
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Reshapes Its Civil Rights Mission  —  In recent years, the Bush administration has recast the federal government's role in civil rights by aggressively pursuing religion-oriented cases while significantly diminishing its involvement in the traditional area of race.
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Los Angeles Times:
Research shows Hilton prison time longer than most  —  Paris Hilton will end up serving more time behind bars than the vast majority of inmates sent to Los Angeles County jail for similar offenses, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of jail records.  —  Whether Hilton received special treatment …
Marc Santora / New York Times:
For Mrs. Giuliani, Not the Usual Campaign Trail for a Candidate's Wife  —  Three months ago, as Rudolph W. Giuliani was starting his quest for the Republican nomination, his campaign sought to introduce the political world to his third wife, Judith, having her speak at a fund-raiser in New York …
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
The Loose Reins on U.S. Teenagers Can Produce Trouble or Entrepreneurs  —  Michael S. Dell (of Dell Inc.) sold stamps to collectors when he was 12 and Bill Gates founded Microsoft when he was 19.  Facebook, the social networking site, was the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard University sophomore at the time.
Discussion: Marginal Revolution and EconLog
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
DoD braces for a fight with Pelosi  —  Pentagon officials are bracing for a fight with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her desire to allow lawmakers' adult children to tag along on taxpayer-funded travel for free.  —  Pelosi wants them to be able to fill the role of lawmakers' spouses …
Ann Coulter / Human Events:
'No Drug Smuggler Left Behind!'  —  President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship, provided they learn Spanish.  The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most Albanians haven't broken any U.S. laws.
Discussion: The RBC
Amy Sherman / Florida Today:
Rush Limbaugh in hurricane info tempest  —  S. Florida county may drop radio station as official storm broadcast site  —  FORT LAUDERDALE — If it truly wants to be Broward County's official hurricane radio station, here's what WIOD (610 AM) needs to do:  —  Fire Rush Limbaugh.
Vaclav Klaus / Financial Times:
Freedom, not climate, is at risk  —  We are living in strange times.  One exceptionally warm winter is enough - irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by .6 per cent - for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures …
 
 
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Discussion: Firedoglake
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House Leaders Near Agreement on Managing Earmarks in Spending Bills
New York Times:
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Rick Jacobs / The Huffington Post:
Immigration on the (Train) Rails
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Specter to White House: Let's Make a Deal
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Michelle Malkin:
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John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Bleak Mood Drags Down Support for Bush, Congress
Agence France Presse:
Iraq surge a failure, top Democrats tell Bush