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• Democrats unveil scaled down energy bill in Senate
• Leaked documents prompt debate on US military in Pakistan
• Judge blocks aspects of Arizona immigration law, leaves others intact
• UN declares access to clean water, sanitation a human right
  
• Mexico residents face water scarcity with innovation

• Sentencing disparities will be reduced under bill passed by Congress
• New York City pays $7 million to Sean Bell’s family and friends
• 3 charged in beating death of immigrant in New Jersey
• Hamas passes new law on sellers of women’s clothing in Gaza
• 3rd most wanted Nazi is charged in Germany
• 4 Journalists kidnapped and 8 human heads found in Mexico

After failing to push through a comprehensive climate change bill, Senate Democrats unveiled scaled back energy legislation. The measure is mostly geared to the BP oil spill. But as FSRN’s Leigh Ann Caldwell reports, this version has both Republicans and environmentalists on the same side: opposed.

In Arizona, US District Court Judge Susan Bolton has ruled on the state’s controversial immigration law, scheduled to go into effect tomorrow. Bolton is allowing some aspects to go ahead, but blocked several key provisions of SB 1070. FSRN’s Amanda Shauger reports.

Before the House voted Tuesday to approve $33 billion in supplemental war funding for Afghanistan - lawmakers were forced to address the issue of US troops in Pakistan. More than 100 Democrats voted against the war funding bill. However, only 32 voted for a resolution, co-sponsored by Congressmembers Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, to remove military personnel from Pakistan. Despite increased drone attacks and Department of Defense-sponsored training of Pakistani troops, Congress has never formally approved any actions in Pakistan.

In what water rights groups are calling an historic vote, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution today to recognize the human right to clean water and sanitation.

Bolivia, the main sponsor of the resolution, made the case for clean water as a human right, saying that lack of access kills more people than any war.  Bolivia's UN representative Pablo Solon spoke through an interpreter.

Despite the US criticism of the UN resolution on water rights, people in the United States consume the most water per person in the world. That's according to the Water Footprint Network. The data shows the average US resident consumes twice the world per capita average.  Many Americans take for granted that water will come out of an open tap, but that's not always the case south of the border. Shannon Young reports on living with water scarcity in Oaxaca City.

• House of Representatives debates war spending bill, US military role in Pakistan
• Afghan war documents reveal "death squads," extensive use of drones
• Senate rejects bill to disclose corporate financing of political campaigns
• Tribe fights for survival as BP oil spill ravages Gulf Coast

On Capitol Hill today, the House of Representatives debated the war in Afghanistan, and for the first time, the US military role in Pakistan. Congress is expected to approve $33 billion for emergency war spending. It would then go to the President’s desk with out funding for education and other domestic priorities originally included. FSRN’s Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

• Study says BPA coats cash register receipts
• Department of Defense has no paper trail for $9 billion of Iraq’s money
• International donors earmark $1.1 billion in aid for Kyrgyzstan
• Israel razes entire Bedouin village – 200 homeless
• ACLU: FBI data collection on ethnic communities constitutes racial profiling