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July 30, 2010Manual Labor
Carolyn Hax: Wedding runs up against family's football commitment
July 30, 2010Dear Carolyn:
Harry C. Press Jr., 78, dies; led Howard University's radiology department
July 30, 2010Harry C. Press Jr., 78, a Howard University radiologist who successfully fought for the racial integration of a swimming pool in his former Silver Spring neighborhood, died July 4 at his home in Bethesda. He had complications from colon cancer.
Video game group spent $1.1M lobbying in 2Q
July 30, 2010WASHINGTON -- The Entertainment Software Association, a trade group for video game companies, spent $1.1 million during the second quarter to lobby on the regulation of video game content, First Amendment protection, parental control technology and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report.
1st US execution of woman since 2005 set for Sept.
July 30, 2010 RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia woman who used sex and money to persuade two men to kill her husband and her stepson to collect a $250,000 life insurance policy was scheduled Thursday to be executed in two months, which would be the first U.S. execution of a woman in five years.
Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative
July 30, 2010Ken Cuccinelli was at his desk past midnight, laboring over calculus homework, when he heard a long, loud scream. It came from an adjacent basement bedroom in the group house he rented with some friends that summer of 1989 in Charlottesville, where he was a student at the University of Virginia. The woman in the room had awakened to an intruder climbing onto her bed. She kicked him and bolted upstairs. The man fled through the window he had entered.
House ethics panel charges Rangel on 13 counts (McClatchy Newspapers)
July 30, 2010McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A special House of Representatives subcommittee on Thursday outlined 13 counts of ethics violations against Rep. Charles Rangel, the former chairman of the powerful tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. The charges place his political career in jeopardy and could put Democrats on the defensive as November's elections approach.
Recess Lesson: 'There Is No Private' Anymore (CQPolitics.com)
July 30, 2010CQPolitics.com - These are things that strike fear in the hearts of Members of Congress hitting the campaign trail this August recess: angry voters, bad poll numbers, damaging political ads by opponents. But perhaps most of all, they fear the unflattering video clip.
Senate panel grills former Arlington cemetery officials (McClatchy Newspapers)
July 30, 2010McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Two former top officials of Arlington National Cemetery faced hostile questioning on Capitol Hill Thursday about years of negligence that led to unmarked and mismarked graves and mishandled remains.
Hope Exists for Immigration 'Down Payment' (CQPolitics.com)
July 30, 2010CQPolitics.com - There's not a prayer that comprehensive immigration reform will pass Congress this year, but there's a slim one that a smaller "down payment" measure might. And it should.
