National News
CQ - Sound and Fury Over Energy, but Few Results
Congress is set to leave for its August recess without passing any significant legislation to address gasoline prices, as both parties hardened their positions in preparation for the fall campaigns.
CQ - House Likely to Pass Milcon-VA Spending Bill Before Recess
The House worked into early Friday morning to pave the way for the first fiscal 2009 appropriations bill to reach the floor of either chamber.
The Hill - A shadow over recess
Democrats will head into the August recess Friday with the shadow of gas prices hanging over them following a mix-up about whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had hinted that she might allow a vote on new oil drilling.
Politico - Product safety, higher ed bills advance
A landmark product safety bill cleared Congress on Thursday night together with a long-delayed higher education act that seeks to make college and federal aid a little more pro-consumer as well.
Roll Call - Rove Appearance Could Follow Court Ruling
A federal court ruling Thursday left Democrats hopeful that they may be able to force Karl Rove and other former White House officials to testify on alleged political interference in the operation of the Justice Department, even if the witnesses refuse to answer specific questions.
NY Times - More Arrows Seen Pointing to a Recession
The American economy expanded more slowly than expected from April to June, the government reported Thursday, while numbers for the last three months of 2007 were revised downward to show a contraction — the first official slide backward since the last recession in 2001.
LA Times - Apparent suicide in anthrax case
Bruce E. Ivins, a scientist who helped the FBI investigate the 2001 mail attacks, was about to face charges.
NY Times - Judge Rules Bush Advisers Can’t Ignore Subpoenas
President Bush’s top advisers cannot ignore subpoenas issued by Congress, a federal judge ruled on Thursday in a case that involves the firings of several United States attorneys but has much wider constitutional implications for all three branches of government.
Washington Post - Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border
No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies
International News
LA Times - Mexico official resigns over drug cartels battle
Noe Ramirez Mandujano, a deputy attorney general, had come under pressure because of poor government results.
LA Times - A combat troop withdrawal from Iraq?
A United States-Iraq security pact would set a goal -- but no timetable -- for the American units to leave, Iraqi officials say.
NY Times - Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials.
Washington Post - Hard Line at WTO Earns Indian Praise
After nine days of talking tough at the Geneva global trade meeting, which ended in collapse, chief Indian negotiator Kamal Nath returned to New Delhi on Thursday to a hero's welcome.
State News
San Diego Union Tribune - County loses pot ruling again
San Diego County has lost its latest court fight against a state law requiring counties to issue government identification to qualified medical marijuana patients.
NC Times - Illegal immigrants asked to leave voluntarily
Immigration officials in San Diego say they will start a pilot program Tuesday asking people who are in the country illegally to leave voluntarily, a plan that advocacy groups on both sides of the issue said probably will not work.
Seven county mayors endorse desalination plant
A group of seven mayors led by San Diego's Jerry Sanders held a news conference yesterday to urge the California Coastal Commission to approve a proposed ocean-water desalination plant in Carlsbad.
Riverside Press Enterprise - No Inland reps make list of beautiful people
On Wednesday, the Hill - a Washington politics journal - released its 50th annual list of the 50 most beautiful people on Capitol Hill.
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