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Nita Birmingham / Post & Courier:
Possible bomb scare shuts down Goose Creek highway — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said there was "no immediate threat" after a portion of St. James Avenue, U.S. Highway 176, in Goose Creek was shut down for hours Saturday evening. — Authorities shut down the road near …
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WIS-TV:
Police: Explosives found in car in Berkeley County — GOOSE CREEK (WCBD) - The FBI and the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department are investigating what they think are explosives found in a car in Goose Creek. — Police say part of Highway 176 in Berkeley County is closed …
Brad Franko / WCBD-TV:
Go to wcbd.com — The FBI says there is no immediate threat. The feds are working with state and local law enforcement in Goose Creek after Berkeley County deputies found explosives in a vehicle Saturday night. — Agents deployed a robot and pulled what looks like a duffle bag from the trunk.
Brian Beutler:
More Obama — It's unfortunate that the earlier session was off the record because he was really—remarkably, even—compelling on two or three issues. Ah well. He's the one who set the ground rules. — I should note that, on reproductive rights and the Justice Department …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:Kos Presidential Forum: Highs and Lows
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The Party of Fear, the Party Without A Spine, and the National Surveillance State — The passage of the new FISA bill by the Senate and now the House demonstrates that the Democrats stand neither for defending civil liberties nor for checking executive power. — They stand for nothing at all.
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Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:The Iraq Shuffle — The congressional Democrats waltz around inconvenient facts.
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Telegraph:
Foot and mouth lab failure causes outbreak — A biosecurity failure at a research laboratory has been pinpointed as the likeliest source of Britain's foot and mouth outbreak. — An inquiry by scientists is centring on fears that the virus escaped from the Pirbright laboratory site in Surrey …
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Times of London:
Virus lab behind foot and mouth outbreak — Fears as three herds are culled — A SCIENCE laboratory that develops vaccines for the government was last night identified as the suspected source of Britain's latest outbreak of foot and mouth disease. — Merial SAS, a private research firm …
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Washington Post:
House Approves Wiretap Measure — White House Bill Boosts Warrantless Surveillance — The Democratic-controlled House last night approved and sent to President Bush for his signature legislation written by his intelligence advisers to enhance their ability to intercept the electronic communications …
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Guardian:
Better red than dead — Healthcare pressures may cause the trend towards free-market capitalism to reverse, with a large chunk of the economy reverting to a socialist system. — Will the inexorable rise in medical costs around the world someday pose a major challenge to contemporary capitalism?
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
The vanishing jihad exposés — Mark Steyn column — How will we lose the war against "radical Islam"? — Well, it won't be in a tank battle. Or in the Sunni Triangle or the caves of Bora Bora. It won't be because terrorists fly three jets into the Oval Office …
CNN:
Al Qaeda member: U.S. embassies prime targets — (CNN) — U.S. Embassies and American interests "at home and abroad" are prime targets for terrorist attacks, American al Qaeda member Adam Yahiye Gadahn said in a newly released al Qaeda-produced video. — "We shall continue to target …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Hillary booed (but only twice) — CHICAGO — Any debate Hillary Clinton doesn't lose, she wins. And she didn't lose the debate at the YearlyKos Convention here Saturday. — Throughout the campaign year, Clinton has led all national polls, and almost always with double-digit leads.
San Francisco Chronicle:
7 ARRESTED IN RAIDS AFTER EDITOR'S SLAYING — CRIME SPREE INQUIRY: Cops storm Oakland bakery in probe of 3 shooting deaths — The son of the late Yusuf Bey was among seven people arrested Friday in predawn police raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery and three homes in connection with three Oakland homicides …
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Bloomberg:
Home Insurers' Secret Tactics Cheat Fire Victims, Hike Profits — Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) — Julie Tunnell remembers standing in her debris-strewn driveway when the tall man in blue jeans approached. Her northern San Diego tudor-style home had been incinerated a week earlier in the largest wildfire in California history.
Janie McCauley / Associated Press:
Bonds Hits 755th Homer to Tie Aaron — SAN DIEGO (AP) - Barry Bonds swung, took a half-dozen steps and clapped his hands. With no trace of a smile but a strong shot for all the doubters, he caught Hank Aaron and tied the career home run record Saturday night.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Polarized, and Polarizing, Congress — The distinguishing characteristic of this Congress was on vivid display the other day when the House debated a bill to expand the federal program that provides health insurance for children of the working poor. — Even when it is performing a useful service …
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