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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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/washington/05nsa.htmlPresident Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation
that broadly expanded the government's authority to
eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail
messages of American citizens without warrants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/washington/06nsa.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1186419924-pjaB1Z9X9rLSI6zoRR5ENADemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham
Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from
lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main
rivals with a rare defense of the special interest
industry. "A lot of those lobbyists, whether you like
it or not, represent real Americans, they actually do,"
Clinton said, drawing boos and hisses from liberal
bloggers at the second Yearly Kos convention. Despite
their own infatuations with special interest money,
former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama put
Clinton on the spot during a debate that featured seven of
the eight major Democratic presidential candidates.
They fielded questions from a crowd of 1,500 bloggers,
most of them liberal. The gathering marked another
advancement for the rising new wing of the Democratic
Party, the so-called netroots.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1131AP_Democrats_Bloggers.html?source=mypiThe Republican presidential candidates walked a
delicate line in their latest campaign debate, seeking some
distance from President Bush and an unpopular war in
Iraq while offering assurances of change in a new
Republican administration.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20134909/The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47
assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security
forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government
report, raising fears that some of those weapons have
fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces
in Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20137021/Lindsay Lohan has checked into the Cirque Lodge drug
and alcohol treatment center in Sundance, Utah,
according to a CBS News radio report.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20145101/Bonds gets chance to hit 756th at home. 'There's no
pressure on me to do this right away,' star says ahead
of game. Tying Hank Aaron's record on the road lined
up Bonds to be crowned the home run king in his
Northern California comfort zone.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20136650/Brian Johnson said it's "hard to dispute" that former
teammate Barry Bonds cheated by using
performance-enhancing drugs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20137810/Glavine becomes 23rd pitcher to win 300. 'I think the
feeling right now is probably relief,' Mets' southpaw
says.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20137930/That's some of what we're planning for tonight.
-- Carey Fox
Countdown Home:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/The Daily Links:
A coal mine collapsed Monday in central Utah, trapping
six miners, less than 20 miles from the epicenter of
a 4.0 magnitude earthquake, authorities said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20146566/The difficult job of extracting tons of broken
concrete, metal beams and submerged cars from the Mississippi
River moved forward Monday, six days after the
Interstate 35W bridge collapsed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20142686/A medical plane crashed overnight, killing all five
people on board, including a woman and her young
daughter, authorities said. A search helicopter found the
wreckage early Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20146763/from/RS.3/President Bush said Monday he is confident that with
the right intelligence U.S. and Pakistan governments
can take out al-Qaida leaders, and he declined to rule
out consulting first with Pakistan before ordering U.S.
forces to act.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20135497/Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime
minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak
of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy
guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho
to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20143182/Floodwaters receded in parts of monsoon-soaked South
Asia on Monday but the death toll reached 311,
officials said. Millions remain displaced and homeless, and
authorities fear waterborne disease could spread.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20129899/3 friends lined up, shot dead at Newark school.
Fourth person found nearby with gunshot, knife wounds to
her head.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20145099/Forward Into Battle. With The Wall Street Journal and
a new business network, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News
chief Roger Ailes plan their next move: all-out war.
Murdoch is itching for a fight with the nation's
presumed newspaper of record, The New York Times, as well as
the Financial Times of London. "I want it to be more
competitive with The New York Times," Murdoch told
Times columnist Joseph Nocera on Saturday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20123487/site/newsweek/A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil
removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her
whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it
caused, Bild newspaper reported on Monday. Margret Wegner
fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was
four. At the time no one dared operate, but now
technology has improved sufficiently for doctors to be able
to remove it. The majority of the pencil, some 3.1
inches long, was taken out in an operation at a private
Berlin clinic, but the tip had grown in so firmly that
it was impossible to remove.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20145219/Florida stripper saves client with CPR
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