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 ATF agents denounce rogue guns transfersATF field agents working in Mexico broke ranks with their supervisors Tuesday during a rancorous five-hour House committee hearing, saying they were kept in the dark about a controversial undercover operation in which hundreds of guns ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Boehner plan runs into GOP rebellionFacing a growing revolt in their own ranks, House Republican leaders said Tuesday they are rewriting their debt-limit increase bill after the Congressional Budget Office said Speaker John A. Boehner's plan does not save as much money as he had claimed. Parties seek to keep cash donated by Ponzi suspectThe fundraising arms for Democratic and Republican members of Congress don't agree on much, except when it comes to all the big donations they've gotten over the years from jailed financier R. Allen Stanford. South Sudan stays with old censorship waysHarassment, arbitrary detention and beatings come with the turf for journalists in South Sudan who dare to question the government's actions, expose corruption or report the opposition's point of view. Nationals acquire Gomes from Reds for two minor leaguersThe Washington Nationals made their first trade deadline deal of the 2011 season Tuesday night, getting the right-handed power bat they'd been looking for to augment their predominantly left-handed bench in outfielder Jonny Gomes from the Cincinnati Reds. In order to acquire Gomes, along with cash, the Nationals parted with two minor leaguers: outfielder Bill Rhinehart and left-hander Chris Manno. Fairfax gives nod to rail cost-cuttingFairfax County on Tuesday conditionally endorsed Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's plan to cut roughly $1 billion in costs from the second leg of the Dulles Metrorail project. Democratic Rep. Wu quits amid sex accusationsDemocratic Rep. David Wu has said he is stepping down from the House in the wake of an accusation he had an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman. Teen thought he would die in Alaska bear attackThe teens had been advised to play dead if they encountered a grizzly during their excursion in the Alaska wilderness. U.S. report: Russia tied to embassy blast in GeorgiaU.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a classified report late last year that Russia's military intelligence was responsible for a bomb blast that occurred at an exterior wall of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, in September. Police see propsed teenage curfew as 'deterrent' for mischief, violenceMost Montgomery County teenagers likely were soaking up the sun Tuesday, enjoying the last few weeks of summer freedom. But 17-year-old Abigail Burman spent the day standing up to a proposed law that could take away a valued privilege. 'Wiggle room' seen on Aug. 2 debt deadlineGlobal markets recently fixated on the budget fight in Washington, but have remained mostly calm, in part because many investors think the Treasury Department will be able to avoid default for at least a week or two beyond the Aug. 2 "drop dead" deadline touted by the White House. Joint Chiefs nominee calls Defense cuts 'very high risk'The general nominated to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned Tuesday that cutting more from the defense budget would be "extraordinarily difficult" and a "very high risk" for the military. Gutierrez arrested outside White HouseA Democratic congressman from Illinois was among those arrested outside the White House on Tuesday as they demanded President Obama halt deportations, which have skyrocketed under his watch. HURT: Obama offers lectures but no answersThe whole problem with the teleprompter is it can't come up with a plan. It doesn't have any of its own ideas. Truth is, it doesn't come up with anything at all that you don't type into it. For failed Obama nominee, a consolation prizeUniversity of California at Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu was nominated Tuesday to the California Supreme Court, a scant two months after his candidacy for a federal judgeship was derailed by Republican objections to his left-leaning legal philosophy. The National Debt Papers: A letter from Greece (PARODY)Editor's note: This letter from Greece was found amid the National Debt Papers, an ongoing series of imaginary missives concerning the U.S. national debt.
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