“In another large-scaled workplace immigration crackdown,” federal officials raided a Laural, Mississippi factory on Monday, “detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally.”
The oil industry is holding an “Energy Mid-Day Reception for invited guests only” today at the Democratic convention. “Location: Unannounced,” writes the Houston Chronicle. “The event is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, the American Gas Association and the Edison Electric Institute.”
In Iraq today, three blasts killed at least 34 Iraqis, “most of them in a suicide car bombing that struck a group of police recruits,” resulting in “one of the highest daily casualty tolls in recent months.”
On the trail today: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks to the American Legion National Convention at the Phoenix Convention Center. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) holds a town hall meeting in Kansas City, MO.
Twelve states and two cities, New York City and Washington D.C., “are suing the Environmental Protection Agency over greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries.” The lawsuit “accuses the agency of violating the federal Clean Air Act by refusing to issue standards, known as new source performance standards, for controlling the emissions.”
Lawyers representing White House counsel Harriet Miers are holding “confidential talks” with the House Judiciary Committee about resolving the legal impasse over her subpoena. There have been “preliminary discussions” between the two sides, although “no concrete progress has been made.”
The Pentagon estimates that “as many as 300,000, or 20 percent, of combat veterans who regularly worked outside the wire, away from bases, have suffered at least one concussion.” But “some veterans — it is impossible to know how many — remain unscreened.” “No doubt that there are significant numbers out there,” says Dr. Barbara Sigford of the Department of Veteran Affairs.
And finally: Daily Show host Jon Stewart called Fox News’ “fair and balanced” slogan an insult “to people with brains.” “I’m stunned to see Karl Rove on a news network as an analyst,” said Stewart, adding only “Fox News Sunday” moderator Chris Wallace “saves that network from slapping on a bumper sticker…Barack Obama could cure cancer and they’d figure out a way to frame it as an economic disaster.”
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