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A daily round up of five newsworthy stories:

• “A bill giving the District [of Columbia] its first full seat in Congress cleared the House yesterday, marking the city’s biggest legislative victory in its quest for voting rights in nearly three decades,” reports the Washington Post. The bill is unlikely to overcome a Senate fillibuster.

• Following a joke about bombing Iran, GOP presidential hopeful John McCain told his critics to “lighten up and get a life.”
• Matt Drudge reports that platinum selling rapper Cam’ron told 60 Minutes he “wouldn’t help police catch even a serial killer because it would hurt his business and violate his ‘code of ethics.’” Meanwhile hip-hop star Akon, who currently has the number 2 single on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles Chart, molested and assaulted a 14 year old girl on stage at a concert. The child’s guardian said, “you should have seen her when she [came] home. She was covered in bruises.”
• Google’s 1st quarter profit this year was $1 billion. Revenue rose 63 percent to $3.66 billion.
• “A group of Islamic militants kidnapped and then beheaded an Evangelist Christian in Kashmir,” reports AsiaNews yesterday. Meanwhile in other parts of Pakistan five Christians were charged under that country’s blasphemy laws. The 5 face three years imprisonment, a fine and the death penalty, or life imprisonment and a fine. Four of the accused have escaped.