T O D A Y ' S H E A D L I N E S
Murdock gets the
Wall Street Journal
 Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached a tentative agreement to buy Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, the Journal reported on its Web site.
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Time to turn down the
political temperature
 Would someone please remind me when the next Presidential election will be held? I sure don’t want to miss it? A genie even told me it’s not until November 2008. Can it be that far off?
Could have fooled me
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GOP's Rep. Renzi low
on campaign funds
Renzi, whose family business was raided by the FBI last April, ended the last quarter with $20,418 in the bank, according to campaign finance reports covering April 1-June 30.
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GOP's Jean Schmidt
behind in cash
What's unusual is that Jean Schmidt, (R-Cincinnati) the incumbent, raised considerably less money in the second quarter - and has less in the bank - than any of her opponents: Republican Phil Heimlich and Democrats Victoria Wulsin and Steve Black.
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Democrats attack
Gonzales, Supreme Court
Democrats running for president used a national meeting of trial lawyers on Sunday to attack other lawyers, pillorying Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and ridiculing recent decisions by the conservative-tilting Supreme Court.
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Campaign silence belies
importance of China
Food safety fears and broad economic concerns keep China in U.S. headlines, but the epochal rise of America's greatest potential rival has barely rated a blip so far in the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Reed: Bush blocking Petraeus from pursuing "new direction' in Iraq
 Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has repeatedly said that the United States must wait until September to assess the success of the President’s escalation policy in Iraq. Last month, Petraeus said it was “premature right now” to discuss the way forward in Iraq.
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Army's middle ranks
are dwindling
More than five years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan have put the all-volunteer Army under tremendous strain. Time at home is supposed to be longer than time at war — two years to one. Instead, deployments are longer than respites — 15 months versus a year. And there is little or no R&R in combat.
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Hamilton worries about
prospects in Iraq
Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, said Monday he's "extremely doubtful" that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will be able to secure the country and allow American forces to leave any time soon. President Bush, however, reaffirmed his strong support for al-Maliki.
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Hundreds of Iraqis
protest draft oil law
About 300 oil industry workers gathered in Iraq's main oil port of Basra on Monday to protest a draft law that they said would allow foreigners to pillage the country's wealth.
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Oil prices
continue to rise
 U.S. benchmark oil prices rose Tuesday, building on gains of the previous session on concerns that more operating refineries in the U.S. will increase demand for crude oil.
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DC will ask court
to preserve gun ban
District of Columbia officials said Monday they will ask the Supreme Court to preserve the city's 30-year-old ban on private ownership of handguns.
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Trump to Rosie:
'You're hired,' if you want
Trump was inviting his archfoe, actress-comic Rosie O'Donnell, to join the cast of Apprentice. O'Donnell's spokeswoman immediately dismissed the idea.
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Microsoft's Vista blocks other
equipment from operating
Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system.
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Man killed inside Colorado
governor's office
 State troopers shot and killed an unknown man who attempted to enter Gov. Bill Ritter's office inside the state capitol.
The man, who claimed he was "the emperor," said he was going to take over the state government.
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Voinovich: Bush
has 'f **ked up' the war
Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) warned that conservative support is quickly eroding for the war, and to stem the tide, Bush must institute a plan that begins the withdrawal of U.S. troops
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More newspapers call
for Iraq withdrawal
Until recently, few papers, no matter how critical of the conduct of the war, had backed a withdrawal of any kind.
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More staff depart
from McCain campaign
John McCain's top communications aides and several staffers in Iowa and South Carolina quit on Monday, the latest departures to hit the Republican as he struggles to rebound from financial and political woes.
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Richardson: Redeploy
US troops now
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Monday he has little faith in military leaders' assessments of the war in Iraq and doesn't understand why the architects of "this morass" get to write their own report cards.
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Cheney pushing
Bush to attack Iran
The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favor of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned.
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Bush postpones September
trip to Southeast Asia
Bush has postponed talks with Southeast Asian leaders, scheduled for September in Singapore.
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Strong quake rocks
Japan, nuclear plant
A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan on Monday, causing a fire and radioactive water leak at the world's largest nuclear plant. At least eight people were killed and hundreds injured in the 6.8 magnitude quake that collapsed wooden houses, ripped apart roads and buckled seaside bridges.
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Brownback: I'm
ready to attack Iran
On Wednesday, the Senate voted 97-0 to pass a resolution sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman to censure Iran “for what it said was complicity in the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.” The resolution required the Bush administration to regularly report to Congress on Iran’s role in Iraq.
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Senator Vitter to
return to DC
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in seclusion since acknowledging dealings with an escort service, is returning to Washington for votes in the Senate, his office said Sunday.
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Republican unity
on Iraq to be tested
Republican unity on Iraq, strained but so far holding, is coming under still more pressure in the Senate as lawmakers from both parties float proposals to get troops out soon.
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Most foreign insurgents
in Iraq are Saudis: report
Most foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia, despite attempts by US officials to portray Syria and Iran as the main culprits of violence, a US newspaper reported Sunday.
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Twin bombings in Kirkuk,
at least 80 dead
At least 80 people were killed on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in a coordinated attack by a suicide truck bomber in a crowded market and a separate car bomb parked on a busy street, police said.
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Democrats report
cash-on-hand totals
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton "ended the first half of the year with more than $30 million each for the presidential primaries, a formidable financial performance for the two leading Democratic White House contenders," reports the AP.
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Survey: 1 in 12 US
workers using drugs
One in 12 full-time workers in the United States acknowledges having used illegal drugs in the past month, the government reports.
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Oil prices rise
above $74 a barrel
Oil prices advanced Monday, adding to gains made in the previous session amid concerns over production in the North Sea.
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iPhone buyers
have no regrets
Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices, a survey out Friday says, and Apple and AT&T are luring customers from rivals as a result.
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Interest in Fred Thompson's
papers high
Republican Fred Thompson's previously little-noticed personal papers at the University of Tennessee from his eight years in the Senate are suddenly in demand as he nears a decision on a 2008 presidential run.
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Bush accused of putting
ideology above reality
Testimony from President George W. Bush's former surgeon general last week has fueled charges that his administration has trumped science in favor of its political and religious ideologies.
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Politics, pollution
collide in NYC plan
A proposed "congestion pricing" toll system to reduce traffic and pollution will be too expensive, its array of cameras for enforcement will threaten civil liberties, and downtown businesses will shrivel.
New York City, 2007, right?
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Procession carries
Lady Bird to burial
 Locusts whistled and crickets chirped in the searing Texas heat as Lady Bird Johnson was buried in a ceremony that recognized her life as a first lady, a conservationist, and a grandmother.
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Gilmore 1st major
candidate to drop out
Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore ended his long-shot campaign for presidency on Saturday, acknowledging he couldn't raise enough money.
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Obama: Shift troops to
fight al-Qaida near Pakistan
The U.S. should shift troops from Iraq to pursue al-Qaida along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday.
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Out of money, McCain will
focus on New Hampshire
Returning to New Hampshire's town halls, John McCain sought to remind people Saturday why they liked him during his first presidential run and why his troubled 2008 campaign is not done.
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Cheney's impeachment
on the table
Four more members of the U.S. House signed on this week as cosponsors.
Vermont town considers
banning nudity
Topless women on parade? That was fine. Teenagers loitering in the buff, in a downtown parking lot? No problem. Naked sunbathers at swimming holes? It was just au naturel.
Can the right food cut
cost of cancer pills?
Taking advantage of the power of food to boost the effectiveness of drugs could sharply lower the cost of cancer treatments, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Holocaust survivors'
children file suit
A group representing thousands of children of Holocaust survivors filed a class-action lawsuit against the German government Monday, demanding that Germany pay for their psychiatric care.
Planets Go 'Splat'
on Stars
Debris spots found on stars reveal planets that went splat like bugs on a windshield.The result: metal smears on the surface of parent stars, said European Southern Observatory astronomer Luca Pasquini, who offered up another analogy.
Potter book under guard
at secret U.S. warehouse
The answer to whether Harry Potter lives or dies lies in a stack of sealed boxes, shrouded as if hidden beneath an invisibility cloak.
"Too sexy for my bus,"
woman told
A bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau because he said she was too sexy, a newspaper reported Monday.
Judge OKs $660M clergy
abuse settlement
Sobs and a moment of silence for those who died during years of negotiations punctuated a Monday hearing at which a judge accepted a $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and alleged victims of clergy sex abuse.
Nuke waste drums tipped
in Japan quake
A powerful earthquake tipped over barrels of nuclear waste at a power plant and officials on Tuesday were investigating whether there were any radioactive leaks, a day after they said the quake had caused the reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea.
New orchid smells
like 'sweaty feet'
A foul-smelling orchid that flourishes only in Yosemite National Park and was first collected in 1923 is a distinct species, scientists announced Monday after re-evaluating the flower.
First Atomic Bomb Test Exposed
U.S. Civilians to Radiation
The world’s first atomic bomb test might have exposed unaware civilians in New Mexico to thousands of times the recommended level of public radiation exposure, according to reconstructed data in a new study.
Chavez: Catholic Church
losing backing
President Hugo Chavez criticized Venezuela's Roman Catholic leaders on Monday for condemning his plans to rewrite the constitution, saying the church is losing support in this politically divided nation because priests are meddling in politics.
2,400-year-old golden
mask unearthed
A 2,400-year-old golden mask that once belonged to a Thracian king was unearthed in a timber-lined tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Monday.
Man calls 911 to
save him from police
A 38-year-old man was arrested after he called 911 and told a dispatcher he was surrounded by police officers and needed help, authorities said.
As tasty as a
truckload of rats
Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported.
Curry ingredient may
fight Alzheimer's: study
An ingredient in curry may help stimulate immune system cells that gobble up the brain-clogging proteins that mark Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Sen. David Vitter on Monday denied having relationships with New Orleans prostitutes, a week after admitting links to a Washington escort service that federal prosecutors allege was a prostitution ring.
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