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• Good news: Economy may grow. The bad? It won't last July 2, 2009
  WASHINGTON — Here's where things stand with the longest recession since the Great Depression: The good news is that economists are revising forecasts, expecting an imminent return to growth. The bad news: The growth may not be sustainable, and the nation could sink back into a recession not long after emerging from this one.
• Congress' apology for slavery just proves it's hard to say sorry July 2, 2009
  WASHINGTON — Lawmakers here are learning the hard way that trying to apologize for historic injustices isn't as easy as saying "I'm sorry."
• Did hacker threaten Sanford and lover over affair? July 2, 2009
  RIO DE JANEIRO — A television anchor who's the only journalist known to have spoken with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's Argentine lover since news of their affair broke last week said the couple received an e-mail threat from the person who hacked into her Hotmail account.
• U.S. plans coordinated response if North Korea fires missile July 2, 2009
  WASHINGTON — If North Korea fires a missile at Hawaii on or around the July Fourth holiday, as Japanese reports have warned, the U.S. plans a measured response in coordination with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea.
• Pakistan desperately needs money to resettle Swat residents July 2, 2009
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Major Western countries, after applauding Pakistan's military crackdown on Islamic extremists in the Swat valley in the country's northwest, haven't pledged the money needed to resettle the population now that the fighting is mostly over, and humanitarian organizations fear that 2 million people will be sent back hom […]
• Job losses rise in June, ending 4 months of improvement July 2, 2009
  WASHINGTON — Worse-than-expected unemployment numbers and an uptick in the jobless rate renewed fears Thursday that the U.S. economy remains very fragile and recovery is elusive.
• Marine offensive intended to show that Taliban can be beat July 2, 2009
  KABUL, Afghanistan — The massive Marine assault launched Thursday in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province is intended to recapture an area that's been under Taliban control for the past five years — a step officials think is critical to showing Afghan civilians that coalition forces can protect them from Islamist militants.
• Poll: Pakistanis worried about terrorists, wary of U.S. July 1, 2009
  WASHINGTON — In a reversal of public opinion, most Pakistanis now consider terrorist groups a "critical threat" to their country and support their government in its fight against the Taliban in Swat valley, according to a survey released Wednesday.
• U.S. Marines launch offensive on Taliban in Afghan province July 2, 2009
  KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines early Thursday launched an operation in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province with the goal of driving the Taliban out of the country's major opium-producing area.

Think Progress

• McCain Draws A Blank When Asked About Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
  Yesterday in an interview with Phoenix’s KTVK 3TV, the local news anchor asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to play a quick word association game. McCain was left tongue-tied and speechless when the reporter asked him to give a one-word response to what he thinks about the controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio: HOST: Health care. [...]
• Media Outlet Refuses To Run Republican TV Ad Filled With Misrepresentations Of Clean Energy Bill
  This afternoon, Roanoke television station WDBJ-TV, announced they will be refusing to air a National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) ad attacking freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), citing factual inaccuracies. The NRCC had been planning to run television ads against Democratic members of Congress, like Perriello, who voted for the Waxman-Markey c […]
• Why are Palin, Perry and Jindal refusing to talk to Biden about the stimulus?
  In a new article, Time’s Michael Scherer describes how Vice President Biden has been aggressively reaching out to mayors on the their use of stimulus money. “My rear end is on the line just like yours,” said Biden on a recent conference call with five mayors and county executives. “I’m the guy in charge of [...]
• DeMint Inadvertently Concedes That Public Health Insurance Option Won?t Take Over The Market
  A leading right-wing argument against offering a public health insurance option as part of any health reform initiative is that such a plan would drive private health insurance companies out of the market. The health insurance lobby group AHIP called a public option “potentially lethal” to their industry. Similarly, Republican Conference Chair […]
• Kurtz: Can African-American women objectively cover Michelle Obama?
  In his column today, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz devotes his column today to the question of: “Does Race Play a Role in Coverage?” He readily admits that “no one raises questions when an Irish American male reporter covers a pol named Murphy,” but that doesn’t stop him from writing a 1,600-word article [...]
• Michael Scheuer: Obama Doesn?t Care ?About Protecting This Country?
  Earlier this week, former CIA operative and torture apologist Michael Scheuer appeared on Fox News, where he told Glenn Beck (who nodded in agreement), “The only chance we have” to repair our national security apparatus “is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Yesterday, on Alan Colmes […]
• Rove: Obama ?Has Carried Pre-Packaged, Organized, Controlled, Scripted Events To A New Height?
  Former Bush adviser Karl Rove went on Fox News this morning and attacked President Obama’s health care town hall meeting yesterday as “pre-packaged, organized, controlled, [and] scripted,” adding that the Bush administration would never have done something so audacious: ROVE: This White House has carried pre-packaged, organized, controlled […]
• Bolton: ?Targeted force? is the ?only option? for Iran.
  In his third op-ed on Iran in a major newspaper in the last month, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton wrote in the Washington Post today that the time is right for Israel to launch an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities: Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised [...]
• Bye-Bye Ali Frick.
  ThinkProgress recently bid farewell to our dear friend and colleague, Ali Frick. For nearly two years, Ali passionately devoted her energy to delivering consistently interesting, insightful, and high-quality posts for ThinkProgress. Around the office, she was always brimming with exuberance, driven in equal parts by her strong desire for progressive reform a […]
• Gay sailor found dead on military base in a suspected homicide.
  Yesterday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the body of openly gay Seaman August Provost was discovered in a guard shack at Camp Pendelton. A “person of interest” in connection to the suspected homicide is now being held in the Navy brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. According to Provost’s sister, he had recently [...]