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Rangel says he’s ready to fight ethics charges (AP)

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., answers questions from the media  on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 22, 2010. A House investigative committee has charged Rangel, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, with multiple ethics violations.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – Rep. Charles Rangel, who has spent half of his 80 years as a member of Congress, says he looks forward to fighting ethics charges. Other Democrats won’t be so pleased.


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Sherrod says she’d love to talk race with Obama (AP)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters that he acted in haste in firing Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative Web site, during a news conference at the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Vilsack said he is taking personal responsibility for what happened.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she wants to discuss racial issues with President Obama, who’s “not someone who has experienced some of the things I’ve experienced in life.”


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NATO says 4 dead in shooting at training range (AP)

A U.S. Army soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division searches an Afghan villager during a foot patrol towards COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Two American civilians and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a shooting on a northern Afghan military base, NATO said.


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Spill chief says the capped well is holding up (AP)

The new containment capping stack is pictured in this image captured from a BP live video feed from the Gulf of Mexico, July 19, 2010. REUTERS/BP/HandoutAP – The government’s oil spill chief tried to tamp down fears Tuesday that BP’s capped well is buckling under the pressure, saying that seepage detected along the sea floor less than two miles away is coming from an older well no longer in production.


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Mel Gibson will not move to Australia, says rep

He’s under intense pressure, but Mel Gibson isn’t fleeing Down Under. “It’s not true,” his spokesman Alan Nierob told the Daily News.

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BP says cap on Gulf well still holding in oil (AP)

A Coast Guard Cutter skims oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, July 17, 2010. BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said Saturday afternoon the company would communicate if the trial was stopped. With no word from BP as 3:25 p.m. EDT passed, video footage showed the well was still plugged. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP – An experimental cap on BP’s blown out Gulf well seems to be working, and the oil remains shut in.


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BP says testing process on cap should begin ’soon’ (AP)

In a photo made from video provided by BP PLC, oil emerges from the damage wellhead Wednesday morning July 14, 2010 at 1:04 a.m. EDT in the Gulf of Mexico.   A pivotal moment in the Gulf oil crisis hit an unexpected snag Tuesday evening when officials announced they needed more time before they could begin choking off the geyser of crude at the bottom of the sea.  (AP Photo/BP PLC)  NO SALESAP – BP says it hopes to restart the testing process on the cap it’s put on top of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill now that a leak in the machinery has been fixed.


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