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Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington — As both political parties worry about the growing federal deficit,

The Washington Times: Two liberal groups each filed lawsuits Wednesday against the town of Fremont, Neb., in order to put a stop to its new ordinance banning people from hiring illegal immigrants or renting homes to them. Mirroring arguments made against Arizona’s immigration crackdown, the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the [...]

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Wall Street Journal: Two more Senate Democrats called for extending tax cuts for all earners—including those with the highest incomes—in what appears to be a breakdown of the party’s consensus on the how to handle the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts. Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) said in an interview Wednesday that Congress shouldn’t allow [...]

Financial Times: Four of the world’s biggest oil companies announced on Wednesday that they were pooling $1bn to form a joint venture to develop a deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil spill response and containment system. ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips will each initially invest 25 per cent in a new standalone company. BP [...]

Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—Gen. David Petraeus plans to ramp up the U.S. military’s troop-intensive strategy in Afghanistan, according to some senior military officials, who have concluded that setbacks in the war effort this year weren’t the result of the strategy, but of flaws in how it has been implemented. The officials said Gen. Petraeus, who [...]

Washington Post: After the recession forced credit card companies to purge their rosters of the riskiest loans, the industry is facing a new problem: customers who are too good. Card issuers have long found their bread and butter in penalty fees and high interest rates paid by consumers who carry a balance. But that business [...]

The Daily Caller: In the hours after Sen. John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the last presidential race, members of an online forum called Journolist struggled to make sense of the pick. Many of them were liberal reporters, and in some cases their comments reflected [...]

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – even as the government’s support for the mortgage market grew by nearly $700 billion in the past year, U.S. bailout watchdogs said on Wednesday. Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, heaped more criticism on the Treasury for its failure to adopt more realistic goals for [...]

Moscow Times: A new round of U.S.-Russian negotiations on child adoptions that started Wednesday in Moscow swiftly decided that same-sex U.S. couples would be banned from adopting Russian children. Only heterosexual married couples will be permitted to adopt children, as Russia does not recognize same-sex marriages, said Alina Levitskaya, a senior official at the Education [...]

Dallas (AP) – -The Irving, Texas, mother accused of strangling her two children earlier this week told a 911 operator she did so because they were both autistic and she wanted normal children, MyFoxDFW.com reported Wednesday. Police say the mother, 30-year-old Saiqa Akhter, strangled Zain, 5, and Faraal, 2, and then called 911. She can [...]

Arizona Republic: WASHINGTON – A Republican bid to stop the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law failed Wednesday. The vote was 43-55 along mostly partisan lines. Republican Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and David Vitter of Louisiana sought to prohibit the White House from using federal funds to finance the lawsuit, which the [...]

Wall Street Journal: By FRED BARNES When I’m talking to people from outside Washington, one question inevitably comes up: Why is the media so liberal? The question often reflects a suspicion that members of the press get together and decide on a story line that favors liberals and Democrats and denigrates conservatives and Republicans. My [...]