Daily Briefing: Smaller Tragedies

* President Bush will spend as many as two consecutive minutes talking about the crisis in Sudan today, and may or may not wear his “nuke Darfur” t-shirt. [WP]
* It only takes a few dozen murders to get everyone talking about gun control again. [WP, NYT]
* Hillary is hard at work delivering pork to New York. [WP]
* John “The Bulldog” Conyers may offer Monica Goodling a get-out-of-jail-free card, that’s how bad he wants Big Al. [WP, NYT]
* It might be chaos in Tejas for the other candidates, but Rudy Giuliani has found his sugar-daddy. [WSJ]
* Margaret Spellings turns off the sensitive student financial info tap at the Education Department. [NYT]