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CLINTON SEES CRACKS IN OBAMA'S SUPPORT
BRIEFS
NATION
REPORT ISSUED ON DEADLY CHARLESTON FIRE
A federal report on a furniture store blaze that killed nine Charleston firefighters almost a year ago says crews responding never had enough water. The draft report from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released late Thursday says firefighters had too few hoses and not enough water volume. The draft is one of several federal and city reports being issued on the fatal blaze at the Sofa Super Store on June 18 as the inferno spread.
BUSH DAUGHTER WEDS SATURDAY
- President Bush stuck out his right elbow Thursday, jokingly demonstrating how he'll escort his daughter down the aisle at her wedding this weekend. He made the gesture at Andrews Air Force Base before boarding Air Force One for the flight to Texas, where Jenna Bush will be married Saturday before about 200 guests at the family's 1,600-acre, secluded ranch. Asked whether he was excited, the president smiled and gave a thumbs-up. Jenna, 26, is tying the knot with longtime boyfriend Henry Hager, who turns 30 on Friday.
N. KOREA HANDS OVER RECORDS
- North Korea handed detailed nuclear weapons records to the United States on Thursday, an important peek into the isolated regime's bombmaking past but not enough to answer criticism that the Bush administration is grasping for a disarmament deal at any cost. The technical logs from North Korea's shuttered plutonium reactor would give outside experts a yardstick to measure whether the North is telling the truth about a bomb program that the poor nation has agreed to trade away for economic and political rewards.
WORLD
OLMERT: IF INDICTED, HE'LL RESIGN
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he never took illegal campaign contributions, denying allegations in a police investigation. But he said that if he's indicted, he'll resign. According to police suspicions, Olmert accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions from a U.S. citizen, Moshe Talansky.
