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President Bush's approval rating has "dropped to 33, matching his low in May," according to an AP-Ipsos poll. The majority of people who voted for Bush in 2004 (57 percent) disapprove of the job he is doing.

Greenland's icecap "is melting faster than ever before on record, and the pace is speeding year by year," new data shows. "The consequence is already evident in a small but ominous rise in sea levels around the world, a pace that is also accelerating."

Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Charlie Melancon (D-LA) have written to FEMA about a report that 94 percent of emergency housing trailers for Katrina victims "contain hazardous levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen."

The GAO found almost 30 percent of State Department diplomats abroad are “failing to speak and write the local language well enough to meet required levels.”

"Iraq needs one to two years to rebuild its security forces," Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said Thursday, a date at odds with a recent claim by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that they would be fully operational by the end of 2006.

"The Bush administration has illegally denied the public a chance to comment before approving the logging of woodlands damaged by fires or infestations," a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

"Most states have shirked the law by failing to ensure that poor and minority students get their fair share of qualified teachers, a new analysis contends."

And finally: Is Rummy getting ready for his close-up? Premier Magazine reports Donald Rumsfeld “hangs around movie sets -- as in a recent visit to the Clint Eastwood-directed war epic ‘Flags of Our Fathers.’” “What was funny is that he stuck around for a while,” cast member Jesse Bradford said. “It's like, ‘Don't you have anything better to do? You're supposed to be running the country