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Washington Post:
Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill — Some Telecom Companies Would Receive Immunity — Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
How a Bill Doesn't Become a Law 101 — After weeks of wrangling, positioning, and debate, the House was poised yesterday afternoon to vote on the RESTORE Act, a measure to improve the FISA law that corrects some of the mistakes of a similar bill from August.
Robert Wilonsky / Unfair Park:
KDFW Suspends Rebecca Aguilar After Controversial "Ambush" — Monday night, KDFW-Channel 4 ran a piece about 70-year-old James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in West Dallas, who, early Sunday morning, shot and killed and man trying to break into his business.
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Dan / Riehl World View:
Senior Reduced To Tears By Reporter After Shooting — Update: The reporter, Rebecca Aguilar has been suspended. Ironic considering she appears to have also just been named Hispanic Journalist of the Year. — So much for bloggers stalking people in the news. Leave it to a real journalist to go over the top.
Amanda Gilles / media.www.bgnews.com:
BGSU alumna awarded journalism honor
BGSU alumna awarded journalism honor
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The Jawa Report
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Former Speaker Hastert to resign — The Roll Call newspaper in Washington reported on its website this evening that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois intends to resign his House seat later this year. — The subscription-only site said Hastert …
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CNN:
GOP sources: Hastert won't finish term — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert will resign his congressional seat rather than serve out the rest of his term, two GOP congressional sources told CNN. — The Illinois Republican said in August he would not seek re-election in the state's 14th District.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners — The head of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city.
Courier-Journal:
McConnell versus truth — Mitch McConnell can't have it both ways. — He can't luxuriate in a reputation for personal caution and political control, yet claim he knew nothing about the role his office tried to play in sliming a Baltimore boy and his family when they came forward in support of the SCHIP health care expansion.
Arthur Martin / Daily Mail:
Father delivered baby after partner was turned away from NHS hospital - TWICE — During a difficult pregnancy, Elizabeth Jones was monitored every day because doctors were worried about the health of her baby. — But on the day of the birth, she was twice turned away from the hospital …
demint.senate.gov:
DeMint Amendment Would Block Rangel's 'Monument to Me' — Sen. DeMint has offered an amendment to the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill to strike a wasteful, $2 million pork project being dubbed as Rep. Charlie Rangel's "Monument to Me." As described by Roll Call this morning …
Washington Post:
Tough Punishment Expected for Warhead Errors — Officers May Lose Commands After Nuclear Missiles Were Flown on Bomber — The Air Force has decided to relieve at least five of its officers of command and is considering filing criminal charges in connection with the Aug. 29 "Bent Spear" …
Chip / NEWS.com.au:
Posted by: Lallye of she changes movement's why! 8:19am today — As soon as the page opened, I immediately and definitely saw clockwise, even before I saw the question. I tried for several minutes to see anit-clockwise. Could almost catch a glimpse by looking to the right or left …
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Accused Law Firm Continues Giving to Democrats — Over the years, as it became Exhibit A for critics of shareholders' class action lawsuits, the law firm of Milberg Weiss often enjoyed the support of Democrats who called the suits an invaluable weapon in the universal conflict between big business and the little guy.
Josephine Hearn / The Politico:
'Sensitive' HHS documents found floating — Several hundred pages of "sensitive" government documents were strewn about outside the Rayburn House Office Building on Independence Avenue Monday evening, slipping under taxis and fluttering in the exhaust of commuter buses.
Associated Press:
Report: Brownback expected to withdraw — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sam Brownback will drop out of the 2008 presidential campaign on Friday, people close to the Kansas senator said Thursday. — Brownback, a long-shot conservative contender, had trouble raising money to compete in the race.