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A trove of FDR's papers finally available to the public (McClatchy Newspapers)
July 29, 2010McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Franklin D. Roosevelt never kept a diary. He never gave lengthy interviews to historians. He died before he had a chance to write a memoir. Yet he held the nation's top office at a time of amazing tumult and transition.
GOP Weighs Simmons Factor in Connecticut (CQPolitics.com)
July 29, 2010CQPolitics.com - It may not matter that Rob Simmons has become a candidate again in the race to become Connecticut's next Senator.
House votes to eliminate cocaine sentencing disparity (McClatchy Newspapers)
July 29, 2010McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a historic bill Wednesday that narrows sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine convictions, which civil rights and civil liberties experts say contributed to the disproportionate imprisonment of African-Americans in recent decades.
GOP Gains Weren't Always Inevitable This Year (CQPolitics.com)
July 29, 2010CQPolitics.com - Sometimes, you can almost hear the conventional wisdom and expectations shift, even when they are based on faulty premises.
Crack-Powder Sentencing Disparity Reformed By Congress (Huffington Post)
July 29, 2010Huffington Post - Congress addressed a historic wrong on Wednesday afternoon, replacing it instead with a slightly lesser wrong, when the House voted to reduce the disparity in the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine.
Key parts of Arizona anti-immigration law blocked (Reuters)
July 29, 2010
Reuters - A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control of the issue.
Pilgrims must pay to attend 2 pope events in UK (AP)
July 29, 2010AP - Pilgrims will have to pay as much as 25 pounds ($39) to attend one of the two public events in England to be led by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit in September, church officials said Wednesday.
FBI chief says agents assisting DOD on WikiLeaks (AP)
July 29, 2010AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bureau is assisting the Defense Department in its criminal investigation into the release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on Afghanistan.
Jury of Rangel's House peers meets in ethics case (AP)
July 29, 2010
AP - A jury of Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional peers is ready to publicly discuss charges of ethical misdeeds. But the political discussions outside the room will be far more significant.
Rangel to Dems: Drop me if you must (Politico)
July 29, 2010Politico - He knows that calls for his resignation are coming.
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