Lawyers for Rangel, ethics committee reach deal (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:12:50 GMT
AP - People familiar with the talks say representatives of New York Democrat Charles Rangel and lawyers for the House ethics committee have reached a plea deal in his ethics case. However, committee members have not agreed to the settlement.

Dozens arrested in protests of AZ immigration law (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:34:01 GMT
AP - Opponents of Arizona's immigration crackdown went ahead with protests Thursday despite a judge's ruling that delayed enforcement of most the law, and dozens of people in Phoenix were arrested after peacefully confronting officers in riot gear.

As many as 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:36:25 GMT
AP - Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery's former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster.

Mo. ballot measures tests federal health care law (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:31:07 GMT
AP - More than 1 million people are expected to participate in what amounts to the largest-ever public opinion poll on the nation's new health care law.

Ousted USDA employee Sherrod plans to sue blogger (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:32:13 GMT
AP - Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist.

Body of 2nd Navy sailor recovered in Afghanistan (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:35:16 GMT
AP - The discovery of the body of a second U.S. sailor who vanished in Afghanistan last week only deepened the mystery of the men's disappearance nearly 60 miles from their base in a dangerous area controlled by the Taliban.

Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:29:50 GMT
AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.

Gov't warned company about oil pipeline monitoring (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:32:54 GMT
AP - A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a major Michigan river was warned by government regulators in January that its monitoring of corrosion in the pipeline was insufficient.

Pa. diocese sued after abuse accuser's suicide (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:27:56 GMT
AP - The estate of a man allegedly abused by a priest in the 1980s is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, alleging he committed suicide this year after the diocese stopped paying for his mental health treatments following two other suicide attempts.

US Passports still vulnerable to fraud (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:33:43 GMT
AP - Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver's licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work. For the second time in two years, government investigators exposed a gaping hole in the country's security by deliberately using fraudulent material to obtain passports.