SECOND DAY OF BOMBINGS NEAR IRAQ'S CAPITAL LEAVE AT LEAST 76 DEAD, AS **

BOMBS TORE THROUGH SUNNI AREAS OF BAGHDAD FRI AFTER TWO DAYS OF BOMBINGS **

A TOTAL OF 130 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED SINCE WED **

OUSTED IRS COMMISH APOLOGIZES FOR THE EXTRA SCRUTINY GIVEN TO CONSERVATIVE **

STEVEN MILLER, TESTIFYING BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN-RUN HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS **

BUT CMTE CHAIRMAN DAVE CAMP CALLS THE ENTIRE U.S. TAX SYSTEM "ROTTEN AT THE **

MEANWHILE, TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE COMMITTEE, REP SANDER LEVIN (MI), SAID "ALL **

BUT LEVIN WARNED AGAINST TURNING THE HEARING INTO "AN EFFORT TO SCORE **

TWO COMMUTER TRAINS COLLIDE OUTSIDE NYC DURING EVENING RUSH HOUR, INJURING **

METRO-NORTH RAILROAD COMMUTER TRAIN FROM NEW HAVEN, CT, HEADED FOR NY **

THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF FATALITIES **

FAIRFIELD POLICE SPOX SAYS AUTHORITIES ARE STILL INVESTIGATING WHAT CAUSED **

AMTRAK HAS SUSPENDED SERVICE INDEFINITELY BETWEEN NY AND BOSTON **

AROUND 700 PEOPLE WERE ON BOARD THE TWO TRAINS AT THE TIME **

TESTIMONY WRAPS UP IN LAS VEGAS COURT HEARING O.J. SIMPSON'S BID FOR A **

SIMPSON'S MAIN LAWYER IN THE ORIGINAL TRIAL TOOK THE STAND AND DEFENDED THE **

ATTY YALE GALANTER CONTRADICTED TESTIMONY BY SIMPSON EARLIER THIS WK, **

THE CASE LED TO A SENTENCE OF 9-33 YRS **

CLARK COUNTY DISTRICT COURT JUDGE LINDA MARIE BELL TOLD ATTYS SHE'LL GIVE **

N KOREA STILL TRYING TO IMPORT AND EXPORT NUCLEAR AND BALLISTIC MISSILE- **

REPORT DETAILS THE COUNTRY'S ATTEMPT TO EVADE INCREASINGLY TOUGH UN **


 

Latest White House Press Pool Report: Here is what happened just before the lid

Subject: Pool report #3

 

After watching his daughter Sasha play hoops for the third time in two days, POTUS arrived back at the White House at 6:43 pm.

 

No word on how Sasha’s team did and no sightings of her or her father.

 

During the game, the pool was in a hold on a curb outside the Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center in Chevy Chase, Md. (At one point it sounded like some girls excitedly screaming inside; a buzzer beater shot, perhaps, to rival the ending of the Indiana-Michigan game?)

 

But the only action outside was a coffee run to Starbucks by a White House press wrangler.

 

About an hour after arriving, the motorcade departed and 34 minutes later arrived back at the White House.

 

And with that, we have a lid.

 

 

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Matt Viser, national political reporter

The Boston Globe, Washington Bureau