FARAI CHIDEYA, host: From NPR News, this is NEWS & NOTES. I am Farai Chideya.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: On today's show, Chairman Julian Bond on the future of the NAACP.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: And surviving the heat wave out west.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: But first, let's kick things off with headlines. Today we start in Douglasville, Georgia. Yesterday, Reverend Al Sharpton led a rally for 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson. Wilson is serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex four years ago with a 15-year-old girl. He was 17. Last month, a Georgia County judge stated that Wilson should be freed. The state's attorney general appealed. The Georgia Supreme Court plans to hear Wilson's latest appeal in October.</s>FARAI CHIDEYA, host: And here's a gift for President Bush who turns 61 today. A federal judge threw out a lawsuit suing Mr. Bush for his domestic surveillance program. But it wasn't all roses for the president. New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici joined the growing number of Republicans critical of the Iraq war. Yesterday, Domenici said he supported a new war strategy. He wants to move troops out of combat and eventually, out of Iraq. He suggested, though, that the Iraqi government, not the United States, has failed to gain control over the conflict.
Host Farai Chideya runs through the day's headlines, including a rally for the release of a young sex offender, and President Bush wins a lawsuit but loses Republican support for the Iraq war.