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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Kos Presidential Forum: Highs and Lows — CHICAGO, Ill. — Seven of the eight Democratic candidates for president just spent 90 rollicking minutes answering questions and — occasionally — jabbing each other in the marquee event of this year's YearlyKos gathering.
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Ezra Klein:
YearlyKos Presidential Forum Liveblogging — • This'll be a different kind of forum. The kind where the crowd sings "Happy Birthday" to Barack Obama. And yet, even though applause and interruptions are allowed, the questions are starting tough. Richardson got the first query …
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.
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New York Times:
House Passes Changes in Eavesdropping Program — Under pressure from President Bush, the House gave final approval Saturday to changes in a terrorism surveillance program, despite serious objections from many Democrats about the scope of the executive branch's new eavesdropping power.
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CNN:
Congress expands U.S. ability to eavesdrop — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House late Saturday night approved the Republican version of a measure amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by a vote of 227-183, with most Republicans and conservative Democrats supporting the bill.
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 …
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Shantel Middleton / ABC News 4 Charleston:
Explosives Found Near Goose Creek; FBI on Scene — Goose Creek - Berkeley County police pulled over a vehicle in a routine traffic stop near Meyers Road and Highway 1-76 around 6 p.m. The vehicle with Florida tags was driven by two men of Middle Eastern descent. Inside police found explosive devices.
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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Little Green Footballs:
Daily Kos Playing Whack-a-Mole — The first Daily Kos diary on the subject of the Soltz Shoutdown has disappeared from their site. Gone missing, along with more than 50 comments. Here's where it used to be: — Daily Kos: What happened to this soldier?!?!?
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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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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Broadcast Networks Ignore Murder of Oakland Post Editor — When a member of the journalism community is murdered, wouldn't you expect most news agencies to report it? — Well, on Thursday morning, Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post, was gunned down by an at that time unknown assailant.
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Suzanne Ito / ACLU Blog:
Voodoo Science Can Convict the Innocent — Yesterday, FoxNews.com featured an editorial by Reason magazine senior editor Radley Balko about an upcoming hearing in the new murder trial for former death-row prisoner Brewer Kennedy, who was convicted in Mississippi in 1991 and sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl.
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Holly Bailey / Newsweek:
Fred Thompson's Powerful but Mysterious Wife — She wields tremendous influence over her husband's would-be presidential campaign. But who is Jeri Thompson—and why won't the campaign discuss her? — Man About Town: As a celebrity bachelor during his time in D.C., Thompson …
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 …
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.
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Say Anything
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Turn — Defeatists in retreat. — Hot July brings cooling showers, / Apricots and gillyflowers, as Sara Coleridge's doggerel has it. But for the American antiwar movement, this July brought only a cold drizzle, wilted blossoms, and bitter fruit. — For the Iraq war's opponents, July began as a month of hope.
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