Apple iPod Nano may pose fire hazard, says Japan (AFP)

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Japan's industry ministry has ordered Apple to report on measures it will take regarding cases of its iPod Nano music player overheating and catching fire, an official said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP – Japan’s industry ministry has ordered Apple to report on measures it will take regarding cases of its iPod Nano music player overheating and catching fire, an official said Thursday.


LucyPhone iPhone app eliminates your time on hold (Appolicious)

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Appolicious – If you hate waiting on hold when you’re trying to reach a company, you’ll want to download the free iPhone app LucyPhone as fast as your Wi-Fi will let you.

RadioShack quarterly profit rises, meets views (Reuters)

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Reuters – RadioShack Corp reported a higher quarterly profit as the consumer electronics chain benefited from higher postpaid wireless sales and the launch of key products like Apple’s iPhone 4.

In iPhone, adult industry sees pocket porn market (AP)

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In this photograph taken July 21, 2010, adult film star Teagan Presley poses with her iPhone in Atlanta. Presley is experimenting with Apple's FaceTime feature. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP – It’s a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.


Opera Mini Serves One Billion Daily Page Views (Mashable)

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Mashable – Despite the fact that popular smartphones such as the iPhone and Android already have great web browsers, Opera’s Java ME-based mobile browser Opera Mini is constantly growing. According to Opera, on July 25th it served one billion page views.

Federal Judge Neuters Arizona Immigration Law: What’s Next? (The Atlantic Wire)

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The Atlantic Wire – The most controversial elements of Arizona’s immigration law have been blocked
by a federal judge. Major provisions, such as one requiring authorities
to check the immigration status of individuals while enforcing other
laws, will not go into effect. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton also barred the state from requiring immigrants to carry their
papers at all times. While this isn’t the last say on the Arizona law,
it’s a major victory for the bill’s opponents. Here’s what observers are
looking at now and anticipating for the future:

Rangel wary as ethics charges to become public (AP)

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., gives thumbs up as he gets in the elevator to leave his office for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – New York Rep. Charles Rangel steeled himself for a bad day Thursday as a jury of his congressional peers prepared to publicly discuss ethical charges against the former committee chairman clinging to a job he’s held in the House for 40 years.


Share your story: How well is BP handling Gulf oil-spill claims? (The Newsroom)

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A beachgoer looks at oil in the water on Orange Beach, Alabama, in June 2010. The X Prize Foundation launches a competition this week promising millions of dollars for winning ways to clean up crude oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)The Newsroom – In the three months since oil first spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of people throughout the coastal region have lost jobs or seen their incomes slashed. Many businesses are reeling too. BP has pledged to make good on all legitimate claims for damages. But how well is the process going?


When the Tax Hikes Are Coming (U.S. News & World Report)

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U.S. News & World Report – If you love class warfare, your moment has arrived. The next several weeks, leading up to the November elections, are sure to be filled with resounding political invective over who should pay for Washington’s profligate spending over the last decade. Democrats will argue that the rich and near-rich should pony up, since they have the most money to start with. Republicans will point to the needy, arguing that they’ve been getting too much aid for too long. Tea Partiers will struggle to decide whose benefits should be cut in order to achieve the smaller government they envision. …

Blagojevich Corruption Trial: Final Theatrics in Court (Time.com)

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Time.com – The closing arguments in the corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich bring out over-the-top rhetoric, tears and an odd ethnic joke

WikiLeaks Probe Heats Up (The Daily Beast)

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The Daily Beast – Government officials have expanded the investigation of Bradley Manning, suspected of spilling the Afghan war secrets, to include possible U.S. civilian accomplices. Philip Shenon reports.

GOP Gains Weren’t Always Inevitable This Year (CQPolitics.com)

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CQPolitics.com – Sometimes, you can almost hear the conventional wisdom and expectations shift, even when they are based on faulty premises.

Democrats launch ‘Republican tea party contract on America’ (The Upshot)

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The Upshot – The Democratic National Committee debuted today a major initiative it says will tie the Republican party to the tea party movement. The idea is to drive a wedge between the activist base of today’s GOP and the more moderate and independent voters the party relies on in major elections to make up for the advantage [...]

Graham eyes anchor babies (Politico)

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Politico – He’s weighing a constitutional amendment to end automatic citizenship for children of immigrants.

The Obama-Pelosi event… (Politico)

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Politico – The president’s summer of fundraising heats up with the addtion of a big-money August event.

Biden: US doing ‘significant damage’ to al-Qaida (AP)

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Sgt. 1st Class Jerome McFadden, left, shakes hands with Vice President Joe Biden during a welcome home ceremony for members of the 10th Mountain Division who recently returned from Iraq, at Fort Drum, N.Y., Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)AP – Vice President Joe Biden says U.S. forces are inflicting “significant damage” on the al-Qaida terrorist network in Pakistan and Afghanistan.


FBI chief says agents assisting DOD on WikiLeaks (AP)

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AP – 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.

China denies forcing firms to transfer technology (AFP)

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A US Chamber of Commerce report has accused China of abusing the allure of its vast market to push foreign companies to transfer their latest technologies to Chinese competitors. China has denied the charges, saying that its policies were in line with world trade rules. US Trade Representative Ron Kirk (pictured) has said that Washington planned to push Beijing on the issue.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP – China on Thursday denied US charges that it unfairly forces foreign firms to transfer technology as the price of admission to its huge market, saying its policies were in line with world trade rules.


Obama to tout Motor City success story (AFP)

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The headquarters of General Motors is pictured in 2006 in downtown Detroit, Michigan. President Barack Obama visits Detroit Friday to tout the motor industry's rebirth as proof that his economic policies are working, but experts warn the sector's survival is not yet assured.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP – President Barack Obama visits Detroit Friday to tout the motor industry’s rebirth as proof that his economic policies are working, but experts warn the sector’s survival is not yet assured.


Crack-Powder Sentencing Disparity Reformed By Congress (Huffington Post)

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Huffington 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.

GOP Weighs Simmons Factor in Connecticut (CQPolitics.com)

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CQPolitics.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)

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McClatchy 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.

After ’08 Squeaker, Kilpatrick Faces Test Tuesday (CQPolitics.com)

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CQPolitics.com – Seven-term Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick faces another tough primary — and even the possibility of defeat — when Democratic voters in Michigan head to the polls on Tuesday. But the dynamics of this race are different from her narrow victory in August 2008.

A trove of FDR’s papers finally available to the public (McClatchy Newspapers)

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McClatchy 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.

Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law (AP)

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Nora Nendivin, right, cries as she is hugged by Marcela Saragoza, both of Phoenix, as they celebrate at the Arizona capitol Wednesday, July 28, 2010 in Phoenix, shortly after portions of Arizona's new immigration law, SB1070, were blocked by a federal judge. The judge has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect Thursday, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the crackdown. The law will still take effect Thursday, but without many of the provisions that angered opponents, including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also put on hold a part of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP – A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizona’s immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation between police and thousands of activists that had been building for months.


Calif. firefighters gain on the worst of wildfires (AP)

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A demolished trailer that caught fire at Old West Ranch where residents were evacuated due to a wildfire about 10 miles southeast of the Mojave Desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Firefighters on Wednesday braced for strong afternoon winds at the sites of two wildfires north of Los Angeles that have burned about 40 homes, threatened at least 150 more and forced some 2,300 people to evacuate. The two blazes in mostly rural Kern County remained out of control after scorching more than 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) of hilly pine forests and chaparral. (AP Photo by Alex Gallardo)AP – Hundreds of firefighters gained ground Wednesday against the most destructive of two big wildfires that have burned homes and forced 2,300 people to evacuate mountain communities on the edge of the Mojave Desert and in the southern Sierra Nevada.