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1. President Barack Obama toured the white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle Tuesday, vowing1 to fight the oil spill with (quote) "everything we got." The president spoke2 in Pensacola to wrap up a two-day visit to the Gulf3 Coast before returning to Washington for a prime time address. A new poll found the majority of Americans disapprove4 of the president's handling of the spill, though far more blame BP for a sluggish5 cleanup.
2. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill aren't much happy with other big oil companies, claiming they are no better prepared than BP to prevent a disaster. Executives from Chevron6, Shell, Exxon and others are testifying before a House committee, its chairman called their spill response plans nothing more than paper exercises.
3. The death toll7 in days of ethnic8 rioting in the Kyrgyzstan city of Osh could be several times higher than previously9 thought. The country's interim10 president says the official count of 171 dead is likely much too low because many Muslim families keep a tradition to bury relatives the same day they die.
4. A rodent11 expert says most of lower Manhattan subways are infested12 with rats. Hundreds of them can live in just one wall of the rooms used to store collected trash. New York City officials say they are working to control the infestation13.
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