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Government papers released in the anthrax investigation paint Army scientist Bruce Ivins as a disturbed man who tried to mislead the investigators by submitting false samples. NPR's Allison Keyes has more.

According to the document, the case against Ivins is detailed by seems largely circumstantial. Ivins was clearly troubled, telling a co-worker that he had incredible paranoid, delusional foxy times, and feared he might not be able to control his behavior. Ivins also sent an e-mail a few days before the 2001 anthrax attacks. His language similar to that in the anthrax letters, which read "we have this anthrax, death to America, death to Israel". Friends and neighbors of Ivins have said they believed the FBI had the wrong man. One of the victims of the attacks, Patrico Donald, says he was skeptical of the evidence against Ivins before being briefed by the FBI today. But while Donald walked out, he says he was 99 percent sure they had the right guy. Allison Keyes, NPR News, Washington.

The Housing finance company, Freddie Mac says it had much steeper losses during the last quarter than expected. The loss comes weeks after the federal government announced a rescue plan for Freddie Mac and its sister company Fannie Mae. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Freddie Mac said it lost 921 million dollars between April and June. Most of the losses were in whether called "all day mortgages", which are riskier than conventional mortgages. The company said there was a significant possibility it might not need federal capital standards that would subject it to more oversight by regulators, who could disturb its investment activities. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government-sponsored, publicly traded companies that own or guarantee nearly half of mortgages issued in the United States. The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve recently took several steps aimed at shoring up the companies' balance sheets by making capital available to them. For example, they can now borrow from the Fed's discount window although they haven't yet done so. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York.

Former Olympics’ speed skater Joey Cheek won't be among those heading to Beijing at least if the Chinese government has its way. China revoked his visa just hours before he was set to leave for the Olympics. Cheek is president and co-founder of a group known as "Team Darfur", which has promoted peace in the war-torn region and he planned to try to exert pressure on the international community, persuade Sudan observe a truce during the Beijing Games. Cheek said the move by China is not example officials there tried quell * * *. "Might be denied a visa obviously is a frustrating to me, but what we're seeing is this is really just one example of China putting pressure on athletes around the world to, to not be able to speak out in any solvations." The White House plans to protest the decision and said that they hope Chinese officials change their minds.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 40 points today. The NASDAQ gained 28 points. The S&P 500 boost up 4 points.

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Nine people are missing and feared dead, and four others were injured when their helicopter crashed last night in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The accident occurred as the helicopter was transporting firefighters who were cleaning up the remnants of stubborn wild fire there. Meanwhile, triple * temperatures in northern California are providing little relief for fire crews who are battling a separate wild fire north of Sacramento. The two-day-old fire in * reportedly more than doubled in size with wind-driven flames at one point yesterday, forcing fire crews to fall back.

Israeli officials announced today Israel will free Palestinian prisoners later this month. That's a good-will gesture to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The decision came after a meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem. Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem.

It was the first meeting between Abbas and Olmert since Olmert announced last week that he will step down as prime minister after his party chooses a new leader next month. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev described the meeting as "productive". He said both men said they were committed to continuing negotiations despite Olmert's intention to step down. Regev did not say how many of the 8,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails would be freed, and whether they would include prominent Palestinians like Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. Regev said that Israel understands the importance of the prisoner issued for Palestinians. Israel last freed more than 300 Palestinian detainees in December. Five more will release today as part of Israel's prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas. For NPR News, I'm Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem.

Now oil prices are pushing gas prices down. AAA says the average price of gallon gas fell a penny a gallon overnight to $3.86 a gallon.

I'm Jack Speer, NPR News, in Washington.