Everybody’s Talkin’ About ...

• The Tea Party gets a caucus (a tentative one, with only 29 members) in the House of Representatives.

• A misleading video flouted by right-wing website leads to firing of USDA employee. Both the NAACP and the official who fired Shirley Sherrod reconsider their initial reactions to the doctored footage, and President Obama personally apologizes.

• Lindsay Lohan sentenced to 90 days in jail. Hey, warden, have you seen The Parent Trap? Careful — she might be twins!

• Over the objections of employed Republicans, the Senate extends unemployment benefits for millions of Americans.

Insider Baseball

• Title IX spikes Quinnipiac: The university must keep its women’s volleyball program, judge decrees.

• Connecticut’s Jim Himes is one of four Democratic Congressmen charged with finding ways to reduce the federal deficit by $70 billion over the next decade. That’s billions of times more proactive than Republicans were when creating the deficit.

• West Nile in West Haven: Mosquitoes found with the virus.

• Primary concerns: A slew of last-minute endorsements and public financing as Aug. 10 primaries approach. Register with a major party by Aug. 9 to vote.

Sensational!

• New Caravaggio painting, The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, found in Rome, just as the 400th anniversary of the painter’s death is being celebrated.

• The Horton Plains slender loris, a cute primate thought to be extinct, was found and photographed in Sri Lanka.

• On the rocks: Super-old bottles of champagne found in sunken ship. Centuries-old crate of Scotch whisky found in Antarctic ice underneath explorer’s shack.

• CBS Watergate correspondent, #17 on Nixon’s “Enemies List,” Daniel Schorr dies at age 93. Zsa Zsa Gabor, also 93, in critical condition after surgery.

Could Get Interesting

• China surpasses U.S. for dubious honor of number one in world energy consumption. And now it has its own deadly oil spill to deal with.

• New HIV-thwarting vaginal gel tested, may reduce risk of getting AIDS virus by 40 percent.

• Democratic Senators give up on comprehensive climate bill which would have capped greenhouse gases.

• Get well soon: Latest BP plan is called “static kill.’ Fish and birds wonder: Is that better than oozy fluid kill? Meanwhile, BP chief Tony Hayward is reportedly ready to resign.

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