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6:15 PM ET, July 31, 2007

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Matt / Think Progress:
Cheney On Whether He Ordered Hospital Visit To Ashcroft: I Have 'No Recollection'  —  On Sunday, Josh Marshall pointed out that the New York Times editorial on the potential need to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that "Vice President Dick Cheney sent Mr. Gonzales and another official …
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Alicia Mundy / Seattle Times:
Inslee leading effort to impeach Gonzales
Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Appears to Have Enough Votes to Clinch Deal  —  News Corp. is poised to win control of Dow Jones & Co., including its flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, after a key Bancroft trust changed its mind and decided to accept News Corp.'s $60-a-share offer for the newspaper publisher.
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New York Times:
Murdoch Seen to Win Control of Dow Jones  —  Rupert Murdoch appeared today to have gained enough support from the deeply divided Bancroft family to buy Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, for $5 billion.  —  Family members and trusts representing about 32 percent …
CNBC.com:
CNBC's Faber: News Corp. to Succeed In Buying Dow Jones  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. will succeed in its months-long effort to acquire Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, CNBC's David Faber reported.  —  A definitive agreement is expected as early as tonight, Faber said, citing people familiar with the situation.
Discussion: Macsmind and Media Blog
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Stevens threatens to block ethics bill  —  Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, whose home back in Alaska was raided by federal investigators Monday in a wide-ranging corruption investigation, has threatened to place a hold on the Democratic-drafted ethics legislation just passed by the House and expected on the Senate floor by week's end.
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Anchorage Daily News:
Warrant served at Ted Stevens' Girdwood home  —  FBI, IRS examine residence; remodeling job under scrutiny  —  Federal law enforcement agents raided U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' Alaska home in Girdwood on Monday, hauling off undisclosed items from inside and taking extensive pictures and video.
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New York Magazine:
Giuliani Backs Hillary — and He Matches
Nicholas Wapshott / New York Sun:
Brown Disappoints Critics of Iraq War  —  Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, has disappointed American and British critics of the war in Iraq by declaring that he believes the West is involved in a "generation-long battle" against radical Islamic terrorism, that he believes …
Discussion: TigerHawk
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Toby Harnden / Telegraph Blogs:
What Bush and Brown really meant
Discussion: Best of Both Worlds
White House:
Interview of the Vice President by Larry King, CNN  —  Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building  —  Q We're located in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office; it's in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, with the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
hughhewitt.townhall.com:
New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner John Burns on Iraq, Iran and how the surge is working.  —  The Hugh Hewitt Show  —  HH: Pleased to welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show John Burns of the New York Times.  Mr. Burns, welcome, it's been about six months since we spoke, and I gather you're in Baghdad today?
Mike Stark / Daily Kos:
I just returned from Falafel Bill's house  —  After O'Reilly provided an "accountability moment" to the JetBlue CEO at his home, I decided to provide O'Reilly with his own accountability moment at his home.  —  I've just returned to home base.  —  I've got video of O'Reilly in his sleepwear (red shorts and a white t-shirt).
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Hillary on needle exchange: "As much spine as we possibly can"  —  There are few differences between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on details of domestic policy, but previously unreported exchanges at recent New York meetings revealed one.  Obama favors federal funding …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Thompson on Horseback  —  It's a shame that Fred Thompson is too young to have played Matt Dillon, the no-nonsense marshal of Dodge City in the long-running radio and television series "Gunsmoke."  That role on the radio went to William Conrad (later TV's "Cannon") and on television to James Arness.
Discussion: MSNBC, Riehl World View and SayUncle
 
 
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Ken Layne Needs To Drum Up Weak Traffic At Wonkette, So He Endorses …
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Mullen Outlines Iraq Challenges at Confirmation Hearing
Bradley Keoun / Bloomberg:
American Home Can't Fund Mortgages, Shares Plummet
Discussion: eyeon08.com
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
More Yahoo! China documents emerge
Discussion: Dui Hua
James W. Brosnan / Albuquerque Tribune:
House Ethics Committee to ask Iglesias about call from Heather Wilson
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and truthout
Peter Graff / Reuters:
U.S. forces welcome least deadly month of Iraq push
Atheling / The Brussels Journal:
The Death of Sweden
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Why Pelosi Opposes Impeachment
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The Politico:
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The Atlantic Online:
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Hillel Halkin / New York Sun:
Remember Aliyah Bet
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Consumer Confidence Hits 6-Year High
Discussion: QandO and NewsBusters.org
The Corner:
When I'm 64  —  "Happy Birthday" wishes to Bill Bennett …
John Tierney / New York Times:
The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting
Sean O'Neill / Times of London:
Guantanamo cell is better than freedom, says inmate fighting against release
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Hearing with DNI chief canceled amid FISA furor
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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