Martyr of Iran. “Her name was Neda Salehi Agha Soltan and she was a philosophy student. But the manner of her death has turned her into an instant, global symbol of the Iranian regime’s brutality.”
Energy bill. “Climate-change legislation would cost the average household $175 a year by 2020, according to the Congressional Budget Office, far below the figure commonly used by GOP critics of the House bill.”
Voting Rights Act. “A key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act survived a constitutional challenge yesterday in the Supreme Court, but justices made it clear that a law forged in the darkest days of the nation's civil rights struggles may no longer be appropriate in a new era of American racial politics.”
Quote of the day. "[There was an] enormous crashing jolt. You could hear all this crashing and glass breaking, I didn't hear any brakes at all. When the dust settled, the entire front of the train was gone." Tom Baker, 47, a District resident, on the crash of two Metro trains in Washington, D.C. At least 9 people are dead and more than 70 injured. (Washington Post)
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