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Obama hails auto bailout as good news in Michigan
AP – Fri Jul 30, 5:01 pm ETA year after the government's big auto-industry bailouts, President Barack Obama on Friday trumpeted increased car sales and progress on battery-powered vehicles as a beacon of success in his administration's battle to revive a hurting U.S. economy. But his upbeat assessment can't mask daunting challenges for U.S. automakers and painfully high unemployment. Full Story »
Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration
AP – Fri Jul 30, 9:30 pm ET- Obama Mocks Polls But Spends More On Them ($4.4M) Than Bush Did Huffington Post – Thu Jul 29, 12:36 pm ET
- Immigration Debate: Border Cities See Less Violent Crime Time.com – Fri Jul 30, 7:40 pm ET
- Conservatives doubt Sherrod’s case against Breitbart The Upshot – Thu Jul 29, 5:06 pm ET
- Rod Blagojevich's Trial: A Look at the Court's 12 Jurors Time.com – Fri Jul 30, 12:40 pm ET
- Anthony Weiner Goes Ballistic At GOP For Killing 9/11 Responders Health Care Bill (VIDEO) Huffington Post – Fri Jul 30, 10:04 am ET
- Obama: 'pay off' from auto bailout at Politico – Sat Jul 31, 7:14 am ET
- 'As long as is necessary' terror bill at Politico – Fri Jul 30, 8:53 pm ET
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar keeps oil drill ban, for now
AP – 41 mins agoAP
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana's coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor. Full Story »
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Army: Rising suicide rate reflects risk-taking
AP – Thu Jul 29, 3:30 pm ETWASHINGTON - An Army report on the record number of soldier suicides says the trend reflects a rise in risky behavior including drunken driving and drug abuse in a military stretched to the breaking point by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Full Story »
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UNESCO declares Everglades endangered site
Reuters – Fri Jul 30, 5:30 pm ETBRASILIA (Reuters) - A U.N. panel has declared the Florida's Everglades to be an endangered World Heritage site due to the wetlands' continued degradation, officials said on Friday. Full Story »
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Obama: Republicans holding small businesses "hostage"
Reuters – 29 mins agoReuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday accused Republicans of holding American small businesses "hostage to politics" after Republican senators refused to back a $30 billion small-business lending package. Full Story »
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Democratic Surge? Part II
Huffington Post – Fri Jul 30, 5:51 pm ETLast week, I argued that a reported “jump” for Democrats in Gallup’s weekly tracking of the national generic U.S. Full Story »
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Connecticut's McMahon No.4 All-Time Self-Funder
CQPolitics.com – Sat Jul 31, 9:34 am ETOnly three Congressional candidates in history have donated more personal money to their campaigns than Connecticut Senate hopeful Linda McMahon, and she's hardly done spending yet. Full Story »
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When will spill be cleaned up? Maybe never
McClatchy Newspapers – Fri Jul 30, 8:51 pm ETAfter more than three months, BP appears finally to have gotten a firm grasp on its runaway Deepwater Horizon well. Now the big question in the Gulf of Mexico is how, and if, an environmental mess of unprecedented scope can be cleaned up. Full Story »
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House to Vote on Easing Drilling Moratorium
CQPolitics.com – Fri Jul 30, 1:22 pm ETThe House will vote Friday on a measure that would ease the Obama administration's temporary ban on new deepwater drilling. Full Story »
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Obama slips behind wheel of a Volt in Motor City
McClatchy Newspapers – Fri Jul 30, 5:47 pm ETDETROIT — Out to convince voters that the bailout of the U.S. auto industry has been a success — and to build buzz for its controversial poster child, Chevy's Volt electric car — President Barack Obama on Friday drove a car publicly for the first time in more than three years and implored consumers, "Don't bet against the American people." Full Story »
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More Politics Slideshows »Rangel using 3-way defense against ethics charges
AP – 58 mins agoTo rebut a lengthy list of alleged ethical misdeeds, Rep. Charles Rangel is trotting out this three-way defense: I didn't do it. I did it, but was inattentive. Others lawmakers were allowed to do the same thing without penalty. Full Story »
Informant says WikiLeaks suspect had civilian help
AP – 28 mins agoAn Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks had civilian help, a key figure in the case said Saturday. Full Story »
Obama says he'll call GOP's bluff on deficit talk
AP – 1 hr 18 mins agoPresident Barack Obama has a warning for Republicans who denounce the federal deficit but reject proposals to cut it. Full Story »
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