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 AP - Colombian military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a media crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
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 AP - Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, officials said Saturday.
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 AP - Pakistan's Foreign Ministry insisted Saturday that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed the army under President Pervez Musharraf helped spread the technology.
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 AP - More than 1,000 people marched in northern Japan on Saturday to protest an upcoming summit of the top industrialized countries, and police arrested four protesters after a brief scuffle. No injuries were reported.
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 AP - Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said.
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AP - Berlin police say a man has ripped off the head of a wax figure of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussauds' newly opened branch in the German capital.
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AP - An Afghan official says gunmen in southern Afghanistan have assassinated a lawmaker.
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AP - Mexico's president says he plans to use the recently approved package of U.S. anti-drug aid to improve the country's police force.
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 AFP - Ashwell Prince told South Africa cricket fans not to worry about the form of Graeme Smith after the Proteas captain's first, and possibly only, innings before next week's first Test against England saw him make just 35 against Middlesex here Friday.
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 AFP - Thousands of farmers and activists from around the world demonstrated Saturday in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo ahead of next week's summit of the Group of Eight rich nations.
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 AP - Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.
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 AP - Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?
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 AP - It was a family Fourth of July for Democrat Barack Obama as his wife, daughters, sister and other relatives helped him make an Independence Day play for this reliably conservative state.
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 AP - Gov. Charlie Crist won't be sleeping alone in the governor's mansion much longer he is engaged to a woman he met in New York City last September who quickly captured his heart.
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 Politico - It’s an axiom in presidential politics to ignore the early polls. Perhaps that’s one piece of conventional wisdom that’s better ignored.
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 AP - Only two Democratic presidential candidates have carried Montana since 1948. Barack Obama is betting he can do it in November.
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AP - Obama, family spend Fourth of July in red-state Montana, celebrate daughter's 10th birthday ... Florida Gov. Crist, possible running mate for John McCain, engaged to marry ... Obama woos Montana and its 3 electoral votes despite state's history of voting Republican ...
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 AP - "Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.
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AP - Lawyers for Osama bin Laden's former driver asked a civilian judge Thursday to delay his military trial.>>Full Story
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 AP - The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detainees' legal rights. Federal appeals courts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting that happen.
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The Muppets Take On The Continental Congress…from the Norman Lear-produced “I Love Liberty” in 1982
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Here’s your daily dose of mind-bogglingly sick antisemitic propaganda from Iranian TV, in a... >> Full Story
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Certain GOP members think it might be best for everyone if Bush just doesn’t go to the GOP Convention. ... >> Full Story
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While we are nearing the end of Independence Day, I thought I’d add one more video from a man who came to... >> Full Story
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In what has become an annual tradition for Independence Day, President Bush welcomed a number of new citizens at a... >> Full Story
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