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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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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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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.
CNN Political Ticker:
Republican to Democrats: Watch Out — WASHINGTON (CNN) — What does a special election in Massachusetts have to do with next year's battle for Congress? — A lot, Republicans hope. The Democrat beat the Republican in Tuesday's contest, but the GOP sees victory in defeat.
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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 …
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 …
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" …
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.
MSNBC:
Sources: Brownback to drop '08 bid — Visit msnbc.com's Candidates + Issues Matrix to rate Brownback's ideas about the key issues. — Web extra video — Sam Brownback, in his own words — Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, touches upon the primary themes of his presidential campaign — Iraq, immigration and abortion.
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Flower-Power Pork — Will the Democratic-controlled Senate approve a $1 million earmark to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers, carved out of a bill funding health care and education? It will, because it is sponsored by New York's influential Democratic senators, Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer.
Jennifer Dobner / Associated Press:
Judge orders TV reporter to do story or face contempt — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge ordered a TV news reporter Wednesday to produce a public-service story as a consequence for airing an interview with a potential juror before the recent trial of a polygamous-sect leader.