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Julia Preston / New York Times:
The Obama administration has started sending federal agents to audit records of thousands of companies, forcing businesses to fire every illegal immigrant.
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Jennifer A. Dlouhy / Houston Chronicle:
First rig sails away over drilling ban — Lawmakers and experts fear loss is only the start of offshore exodus — WASHINGTON — Diamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately …
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CNBC:
US Will Announce New Drilling Moratorium Soon — The Obama administration promised on Friday it would announce a new deepwater oil drilling moratorium shortly, and a U.S. company became the first to pull a rig out of the Gulf of Mexico because of uncertainty surrounding the ban.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Blasting right wing lies right out of the oil soaked water — Blamo! — Here's something you don't see every day: a news anchor actually challenging a lying winger on the air and then going back the next day with a thorough fact check: — See, it's really not that hard. — h/t to bb
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Obama's Israel policy could loom large as midterm election issue — As the Obama administration tries to mend its strained ties with Israel, strategists say U.S. policy on the Jewish state could influence several battleground House and Senate races this fall.
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Patrick Poole / Pajamas Media:
Blue Suede Jihad: PJM Gets the MSM Treatment — A Memphis mosque turns to its dinosaur media allies over a PJM story on a Hamas fundraiser's scheduled appearance. — Last week, I wrote about the scheduled appearance of Sheikh Mohammed Al-Hanooti, a long-time terrorist supporter and known Hamas fundraiser …
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John Monk / The State:
Greene paid his own filing fee; won't face additional criminal charges — Alvin Greene, the obscure jobless man whose come-from-nowhere victory in the June Democratic primary for U.S. Senate created a national furor, had legitimate sources of income to pay his $10,400 primary entry fee, law enforcement sources said Friday.
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Brock Vergakis / Associated Press:
AP Interview: GOP Sen. Bennett predicts Reid win — SALT LAKE CITY - Warning that tea party “mischief” may be aiding Democrats this election season, defeated Utah Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett says that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid likely will keep his seat and that the GOP …
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Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats yet to lock down votes for financial regulations bill
Senate Democrats yet to lock down votes for financial regulations bill
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Washington Post:
Gen. Petraeus runs into resistance from Karzai over village defense forces — KABUL — As he takes charge of the war effort in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus has met sharp resistance from President Hamid Karzai to an American plan to assist Afghan villagers in fighting the Taliban on their own.
Associated Press:
University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs — URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual sex is immoral.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Mehserle apologizes - Grant family unimpressed — (07-09) 16:28 PDT OAKLAND — While the jury was deliberating his fate, former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle crafted a handwritten statement in which he apologized for the first time for shooting Oscar Grant, saying he will be forever haunted by Grant's dying words.
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Christopher Rhoads / Wall Street Journal:
The Submarine Deals That Helped Sink Greece — ATHENS—As Greece slashes spending to avoid default, it hasn't moved to skimp on one area: defense. — The deeply indebted Mediterranean nation, whose financial crisis roiled the global financial system this year, is spending more than a billion euros on two submarines from Germany.
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FDIC:
Bay Bank, FSB, Lutherville, Maryland, Assumes all of the Deposits of Bay National Bank, Baltimore, Maryland — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Bay National Bank, Baltimore, Maryland, was closed today by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.
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Wall Street Journal:
The estate tax is set to come roaring back in January. That sets the stage for a perverse calculus: End it all—or leave a massive bill for your heirs to deal with.
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Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
With ‘One Nation,’ liberal groups aim to match tea party's energy, influence — If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the “tea party” movement must be honored. — In an effort to replicate the tea party's success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition …
Jim Newell / Gawker:
Clarence Thomas' Suicidal, Epileptic Nephew Punched, Tasered — Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and family are “outraged” after his nephew was allegedly punched, pulled and tased at a New Orleans hospital, after a possible suicide attempt. The taser put him into a “massive epileptic seizure.”
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The Huffington Post:
Income Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Highest in Decades, Data Show — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades, according to a June 25 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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