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2:58 AM ET, August 5, 2007

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CNN:
Congress expands U.S. ability to eavesdrop  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House late Saturday night approved the Republican version of a measure amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by a vote of 227-183, with most Republicans and conservative Democrats supporting the bill.
Discussion: Balkinization and Daily Kos
Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
Bush urges House to pass spy bill
Discussion: BlondeSense and BuzzFlash.org
New York Times:
Partisan Anger Stalls Congress in Final Push
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Kos Presidential Forum: Highs and Lows  —  CHICAGO, Ill. — Seven of the eight Democratic candidates for president just spent 90 rollicking minutes answering questions and — occasionally — jabbing each other in the marquee event of this year's YearlyKos gathering.
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Ezra Klein:
YearlyKos Presidential Forum Liveblogging  —  • This'll be a different kind of forum.  The kind where the crowd sings "Happy Birthday" to Barack Obama.  And yet, even though applause and interruptions are allowed, the questions are starting tough.  Richardson got the first query …
The Atlantic Online:
At YearlyKos, Clinton Defends Lobbyists  —  CHICAGO — After dozens of forums in the last four months, it seemed as if the presidential candidates had run out of new things to say, and despite the promise of Netroots sparkle, today's YearlyKos roundtable, held in a poorly lit, cavernous convention hall, was kind of dingy.
Jill / Feministe:
Liveblogging the YK Presidential Forum
WIS-TV:
Police: Explosives found in car in Berkeley County  —  GOOSE CREEK (WCBD) - The FBI and the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department are investigating what they think are explosives found in a car in Goose Creek.  —  Police say part of Highway 176 in Berkeley County is closed …
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Shantel Middleton / ABC News 4 Charleston:
Explosives Found Near Goose Creek; FBI on Scene  —  Goose Creek - Berkeley County police pulled over a vehicle in a routine traffic stop near Meyers Road and Highway 1-76 around 6 p.m. The vehicle with Florida tags was driven by two men of Middle Eastern descent.  Inside police found explosive devices.
Associated Press:   Police close S.C. highway after finding explosives
Little Green Footballs:
Daily Kos Playing Whack-a-Mole  —  The first Daily Kos diary on the subject of the Soltz Shoutdown has disappeared from their site.  Gone missing, along with more than 50 comments.  Here's where it used to be:  —  Daily Kos: What happened to this soldier?!?!?
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Hillary booed (but only twice)  —  CHICAGO — Any debate Hillary Clinton doesn't lose, she wins.  And she didn't lose the debate at the YearlyKos Convention here Saturday.  —  Throughout the campaign year, Clinton has led all national polls, and almost always with double-digit leads.
Discussion: Hot Air
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San Francisco Chronicle:
7 ARRESTED IN RAIDS AFTER EDITOR'S SLAYING  —  CRIME SPREE INQUIRY: Cops storm Oakland bakery in probe of 3 shooting deaths  —  The son of the late Yusuf Bey was among seven people arrested Friday in predawn police raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery and three homes in connection with three Oakland homicides …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Broadcast Networks Ignore Murder of Oakland Post Editor  —  When a member of the journalism community is murdered, wouldn't you expect most news agencies to report it?  —  Well, on Thursday morning, Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post, was gunned down by an at that time unknown assailant.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Suzanne Ito / ACLU Blog:
Voodoo Science Can Convict the Innocent  —  Yesterday, FoxNews.com featured an editorial by Reason magazine senior editor Radley Balko about an upcoming hearing in the new murder trial for former death-row prisoner Brewer Kennedy, who was convicted in Mississippi in 1991 and sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl.
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Radley Balko / Fox News:   Faulty Forensic 'Experts' Sending the Innocent to Jail
Holly Bailey / Newsweek:
Fred Thompson's Powerful but Mysterious Wife  —  She wields tremendous influence over her husband's would-be presidential campaign.  But who is Jeri Thompson—and why won't the campaign discuss her?  —  Man About Town: As a celebrity bachelor during his time in D.C., Thompson …
Discussion: Redstate and Riehl World View
Times of London:
Virus lab behind foot and mouth outbreak  —  Fears as three herds are culled  —  A SCIENCE laboratory that develops vaccines for the government was last night identified as the suspected source of Britain's latest outbreak of foot and mouth disease.  —  Merial SAS, a private research firm …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Turn  —  Defeatists in retreat.  —  Hot July brings cooling showers, / Apricots and gillyflowers, as Sara Coleridge's doggerel has it.  But for the American antiwar movement, this July brought only a cold drizzle, wilted blossoms, and bitter fruit.  —  For the Iraq war's opponents, July began as a month of hope.
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Republicans try to rebuke Murtha  —  House Republicans sought to rebuke Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) Friday night for his actions while presiding over the chamber earlier in the day.  —  The resolution was just one of the many protest measures Republicans lobbed at the majority Friday …
 
 
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