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5:15 PM ET, August 2, 2007

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Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Offers Sympathies and Assistance to Minneapolis and Calls on Congress to Act Before Recess  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  I just finished a Cabinet meeting.  One of the things we discussed was the terrible situation there in Minneapolis.  We talked about the fact …
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Jon Krawczynski / Associated Press:
Hopes Dim in Minneapolis for Survivors  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Divers searched the Mississippi River for bodies Thursday among the submerged cars and twisted steel left by deadly interstate bridge collapse, their hopes of finding survivors having dimmed.  —  "This is not a rescue operation any longer …
Dan Browning / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Bridge was rated 'structurally deficient' in 2005  —  The highway bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday was rated as "structurally deficient" two years ago and possibly in need of replacement.  —  The highway bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday was rated as …
Jon Krawczynski / Associated Press:
Police: More victims in submerged cars
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The Politico:
Obama on nukes: policy or character?  (Updated)  —  The latest Obama story, from an interview with The Associated Press, isn't online yet, but get ready: It's an interview* in which Obama initially rules out the use of nuclear weapons entirely, then seems to take it back:
Discussion: TalkLeft and eyeon08.com
ABCNEWS:
Presidential Race Goes Nuclear
Discussion: MSNBC
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Specter: Gonzales A "Wily Witness"  —  So here's Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-PA) verdict on Alberto Gonzales' testimony, delivered during this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Karl Rove's aide Scott Jennings.  —  Gonzales, he says, sought to mislead the committee …
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Joe Klein / Time:
Political Pariahs  —  "Some people say we've lost our standing …
Discussion: New York Times and TIME: Swampland
Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Court puts limits on surveillance abroad  —  The ruling raises concerns that U.S. anti-terrorism efforts might be impaired at a time of heightened risk.  —  WASHINGTON — A special court that has routinely approved eavesdropping operations has put new restrictions on the ability …
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The New Republic:
A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp  —  Scott Thomas Beauchamp is a U.S. Army private serving in Iraq.  He came to THE NEW REPUBLIC's attention through Elspeth Reeve, a TNR reporter-researcher, whom he later married.  Over the course of the war, we have tried to provide our readers with a sense of Iraq as it is seen by the troops.
Melanie Markley / Houston Chronicle:
Students must remember 'God' in Texas pledge  —  Texas students will have four more words to remember when they head back to class this month and begin reciting the state's pledge of allegiance.  —  This year's Legislature added the phrase "one state under God" to the pledge …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Edwards: "Giuliani is Bush on Steroids"  —  Just got back from an Edwards event in San Francisco.  He threw out a lot of red meat — in particular savaging the big oil, drug, and insurance companies — and these deep blue Americans loved every minute of it.  —  Edwards is awesome on the stump.
Associated Press:
Minister In Skirt Charged With Indecent Exposure  —  Police Say Man Urinated In Front Of Kids, Offered Oral Sex To Cops  —  JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — A Baptist minister has been charged in Tennessee with indecent exposure and driving under the influence.  —  Police said 58-year-old Tommy Tester …
Los Angeles Times:
D.C. elites want you to shush on Iraq  —  Be afraid when the same centrist consensus that has a lousy track record on the war lashes out at partisans.  —  By By Matthew Yglesias  —  The united states is now well into the fifth year of a war in Iraq that has, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars …
Editor and Publisher:
Bush Insults BBC Political Editor at Press Conference  —  NEW YORK At a recent press conference at Camp David, President George Bush insulted BBC political editor Nick Robinson, the Daily Mirror reports.  —  Robinson, who has asked Bush pointed questions in the past such as whetherthe president was …
Editor and Publisher:
170 Cancel 'WSJ' Subscriptions — But How Many Will Follow?  —  NEW YORK At least 170 subscribers to the Wall Street Journal have canceled their orders since word emerged that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. will soon take over the newspaper.  —  The paper does have 1.7 million print subscribers left.
Byron York / National Review Online:
The Vast Left-Wing Establishment  —  Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago.  It's the second YearlyKos, in circumstances far different from the first, held in June 2006 in Las Vegas.
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Associated Press:
Bush administration readying immigration crackdown on employers  —  WASHINGTON: Employers across the U.S. are preparing to fire workers with questionable Social Security government identification numbers to avoid getting snagged in a Bush administration crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Discussion: QandO, Wake up America and Lonewacko
 
 
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Edwards assails rivals over News Corp.
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ABCNEWS:
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