House passes lobbying ethics bill amid split votes
The House approved a 217 to 213 party line bill to curb lobbying and ethics abuses. It would increase lobbyist reporting, raise penalties, and require ethics training for staff and members, with pensions at risk for bribery convictions. Dems push stronger reforms and a rival bill failed 216 to 213.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Rules Committee
David Dreier
R-Calif
Jack Ambramoff
House
Dennis Hastert
Lighting strike tied to Sago Mine blast probe findings
A consultant from Virginia Tech says a lightning strike near the Sago Mine sent an electrical pulse along a power line. The charge traveled to the mine and down a conveyor, igniting methane and triggering the fatal 12-miner explosion.
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Buckhannon
W.va
Sago
Thomas Novak
Virginia Tech
International Coal Group Inc
Novak
Youth at Forefront of Immigration Rallies Across Nation
The article describes large youth turnout at immigrant rights rallies, with voices like Camila Rodriguez in New York and Halee Cisneros in Phoenix. Students from immigrant families skipped school for the Day Without Immigrants, signaling heightened youth activism and concern over family status.
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New York
Marco Davis
National Council of la Raza
Peo
Ple
New York City
Camila Rodriguez
Phoenix
Halee Cisneros
Washington, D.C
Washington Heights
Sunni Insurgents Target Sunni Arabs in Fallujah Incident
In Fallujah a vehicle bombing killed two police and 13 recruits at a police site. Nearby three Sunni Iraqi soldiers were found fatally wounded. The governor survived a separate attack as U S and Iraqi forces urge Sunni participation in police and army to carve a political Sunni role amid sectarian tension.
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Iraq
Baghdad
Fallujah
Anbar
Maamoun
Sami Rashid al-Alwani
Ramadi
U.S
Saddam Hussein
al-Qaida
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Remains Retrieved After Armavia Airliner Crash
Rescue teams in Sochi carried bodies to a palm fringed harbor after the Armavia Airbus A320 crash in heavy rain over the Black Sea near Adler. Divers sought flight recorders as officials reviewed cause amid rough seas and pilots’ possible error with 47 bodies brought to morgues by evening.
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Sochi
Russia
Black Sea
Adler
Anait Bagusian
Zvartnots
Yerevan
Armavia Airlines
Nataliya Vishnyakova
Armavia
Armenia
Tsunami warnings after powerful Tonga quake prompt alert failures
A magnitude 7.9 quake south of Neiaru Tonga triggered tsunami warnings reaching Fiji and New Zealand. Power outages in Tonga prevented receipt of initial alerts, prompting calls to fix the warning system as warnings were lifted within two hours after a under-two-foot wave.
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Nuku’alofa
Tonga
South Pacific
Fiji
New Zealand
Neiaru
Auckland
Indian Ocean
Pacific
Gerard Fryer
Fryer
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Rockville
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James L. Ryan
Dimsey
Elvio Leveri
Ryan
Montgomery County
Lee Boyd Malvo
Virginia
Malvo
Maryland
Newport
R.I
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Salve Regina University
Breakers
Maine
Rhode Island
Michael Brennan
Mike Eckel
Associated Press
Pesi Fonua
The
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Samoa
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