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Keith Olbermann discusses Bush’s Iraq problems.
Six weeks before Gen. Petraeus is scheduled to brief congress on the effectiveness of the surge, he said again it could be two more years before the Iraqis can provide their own security. Richard Wolffe weighs in on the humanitarian crisis that is going on in Iraq [...]

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Wolf Blitzer reports the raid of Senator Stevens home by the FBI and IRS
Another one bites the dust…….

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By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure at his summer home in Maine on Monday, causing a fall that resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.
He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight.
Chief Justice John Roberts was taken by ambulance to a hospital on Monday [...]

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From NBC’s Mike Viqueira
cross posted at The Huffington Post

A group of House Democrats will introduce a resolution calling on the Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) will sponsor the measure. It will be dropped in the hopper tomorrow.
It’s too early to say whether it will actually get [...]

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By JODI KANTOR

Asked which parent Chelsea Clinton most resembles, friends tick through the mother-daughter similarities. There is the habit of pre-empting questions by asking lots of them. The passionate interest in health care. The tendency to sound a bit scripted when talking about policy, even in private. The way both borrowed on family contacts to [...]

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from The BBC Online

Birth control is to be used on pigeons in California in an effort to combat the “unmanageable” mess their increasing numbers are causing.
Animal rights groups support using the contraceptive in preference to other methods such as gates which give electric shocks and poisoning.
OvoControl P, which interferes with egg development, will be put [...]

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By JANIE MCCAULEY

SAN FRANCISCO - Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75.
Walsh died at his Woodside home Monday morning following [...]

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By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran talk show host Tom Snyder, whose idiosyncratic interviewing style bemused and annoyed late-night TV viewers during three decades, has died after a long battle with leukemia, associates said on Monday. He was 71.
The former host of NBC’s “Tomorrow” show and CBS’ “The Late Late Show with [...]

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Germans aren’t too happy with the U.S. arms deals in the making.
From Spiegel:

German newspapers criticized the plan.
Center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes:
“By toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the United States indirectly strengthened Iran. Now the US is trying to curtail Iran’s power again. But this will only succeed if the USA, in [...]

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