AP - Florida’s optical scan voting machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a government-ordered study obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
AP - Archaeologists excavating an ancient tannery believed to be the largest ever found in Rome said Tuesday they might need to move the entire work site, which is being threatened by railroad construction. The 1,255-square-yard complex includes a tannery dating to the second or third century, as well as burial sites and part of a Roman road.
AP - The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to make lawmakers disclose more details of their efforts to fund pet projects and raise money from lobbyists, responding to a rash of recent scandals.
Reuters - The U.S. Army on Tuesday officially
censured a retired three-star general for lying about the 2004
friendly fire death of Army Ranger and former football star Pat
Tillman in Afghanistan.
Reuters - American Home Mortgage Investment Corp
said on Tuesday it can no longer fund home loans and
may liquidate assets, putting its survival in doubt and sending
its shares plummeting 90 percent.
AP - Shares of American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. plunged 90 percent Tuesday after the company raised fears it may become insolvent, renewing concern about worsening credit quality in the mortgage market and killing a Wall Street rally.
AP - The leader of Iraq’s Kurdish region warned Tuesday of a “real civil war” if the central government does not implement a constitutional clause on the future of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city claimed by the Kurds.
Reuters - Robin Roberts, co-host of ABC
television's "Good Morning America," said on Tuesday she has
breast cancer.
Reuters - Breaking up an exercise
session, by adding a rest period in between, may boost a
workout's fat-burning efficiency, a team of Japanese and Danish
researchers reports.
AP - A former schoolteacher who presided over a torture center was charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity, becoming the first top figure of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge to be indicted for atrocities that led to an estimated 1.7 million deaths.
Bloomberg - July 31 (Bloomberg) — The House of Representatives voted to
overturn a Supreme Court ruling by allowing workers to sue for
wage discrimination long after a deadline the court imposed.
AFP - India's most populous state planted more than 10 million trees in a single day Tuesday as part of an environmental awareness drive, authorities said.
Reuters - U.S. physicians who identify themselves
as religious are no more likely to care for poor, underserved
patients than those who have no religious affiliation,
researchers have found.
AP - The British army marked a milestone of peacemaking Tuesday as it formally ended its 38-year mission to bolster security in Northern Ireland.
AP - Thieves stole copper pipe from a freezer at the state’s largest food bank, wasting nearly half a million dollars worth of food meant to help the poor, police said.