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AP - President Barack Obama warned on Saturday "there will be difficult days ahead" in Iraq and said the U.S. will remain a strong partner to Iraq for its security.
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AP - The OAS secretary general says his efforts to return Manuel Zelaya to the presidency in Honduras have failed.
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AP - National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
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AP - Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father's birthplace.
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AP - Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday laid the groundwork to take on a larger, national role after leaving state government, citing a "higher calling" with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines.
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July 4th, 2009 By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
President Obama is pushing for new global rules, treaties and alliances to establish a nuclear-free world, a vision he developed as a college student.
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July 4th, 2009 By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Sarah Palin may be looking to the next few years to do what Nixon did to prepare for his successful run for the White House in 1968.
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Politico - It might seem like a moment just too good for the White House to pass up – America’s first black president, on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, looking out over a sea of jubilant faces, delivering a message of friendship and hope.
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July 4th, 2009 By CARL HULSE
As the House Republican leader in a town again dominated by Democrats, the Ohioan is back to his old tricks.
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July 4th, 2009 By JACK HEALY
Homeowners in the U.S. are challenging their property tax bills in droves as the value of their homes drop, threatening local governments with another big drain on their budgets.
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Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq faced difficult days ahead after taking control of its towns and cities from U.S. forces but he pledged to remain a strong partner on behalf of the country's security and prosperity.
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July 4th, 2009 By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. presided over a naturalization ceremony that included 12 soldiers from Iraq, and his blunt remarks.
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July 4th, 2009 By SAM TANENHAUS
Gov. Sarah Palin’s rise to the national ticket was itself the result of tension in the Republican Party.
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Politico - New York Times reporter Sheryl Stolberg, working as pool, had a short interview with Vice President Joe Biden as he flew out of Bagdhad. Her report:
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Reuters - President Barack Obama has used an interview with a Russian opposition newspaper to support Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev's publicly declared aim of building a freer society in Russia.
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Politico - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday in a Fourth of July message to supporters that news coverage of her startling resignation announcement reflects "the politics of personal destruction." In the Facebook posting, the governor indicated that she plans to continue to play a role national politics, vowing to "advance this country together."
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AP - Colin Powell says Michael Jackson had controversy in his life, but in death his art should be celebrated.
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AP - Where is Sarah Palin? A day after surprising even her closest friends by announcing she would step down as Alaska governor more than a year before her term was up, the controversial hockey mom was keeping a low profile. Her spokesman, David Murrow, said Palin told him she was flying to Juneau, the state capital, for the Fourth of July weekend, but he wasn't sure what activities she planned to attend.
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AP - National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
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AP - The Organization of American States is meeting in Washington to consider suspending Honduras' membership because of the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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AP - In dueling holiday addresses, President Barack Obama appealed for public support of his domestic programs and Sen. John McCain said Americans should side with Iranian election protesters.
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AP - The White House is getting ready for the big holiday barbecue and fireworks show at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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AP - Colin Powell worries that President Barack Obama is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time and he offers this advice: take a hard look at costs and consider the additional red tape that will be created.
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AP - Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father's birthplace.
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AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's abrupt and unscripted holiday resignation is an odd way to launch a potential presidential bid and no help for a party battered by scandal and fighting for relevancy.
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AP - Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamour to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president.
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Reuters - An editor seen as close to Iran's leadership said on Saturday that opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi should go on trial, and a lawyer said other reformists had already been accused of acting against national security.
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AP - California voters gave Arnold Schwarzenegger a single, blockbuster-sized mission when they sent him to Sacramento six years ago in an unprecedented election: Fix California's chaotic budget system, once and for all.
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Reuters - Republican Senator John McCain issued a statement of support for resigning Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Saturday, saying she will play a leadership role in the Republican Party and in America.
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Politico - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s sudden announcement Friday that she will resign at the end of July came as a complete shock to the Alaska political establishment. The choreography suggested that was by design.
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AP - Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.
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July 4th, 2009 By PETER BAKER
The move is one of the most concrete achievements in the effort to rebuild strained U.S.-Russian relations.
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July 4th, 2009 By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JIM RUTENBERG
Gov. Sarah Palin’s move shocked Republicans and fueled renewed speculation about her presidential ambitions and criticism of her political competence.
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July 4th, 2009 By DAVID CARR
Al Franken’s hard-won victory raises the question: What is up with Minnesota politics, anyway?
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July 4th, 2009 By RACHEL L. SWARNS
For White House aides, the demands of working for the president have made work-family balance elusive.
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AP - A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.
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By Scott Wilson President Obama today invoked the "spirit of America" to argue for health care, energy and education reform in a July 4 radio address that compared this moment in U.S. history to the turning points of past generations. "We are not a people who fear the future. We are a people who make it," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "And on this July 4th, we need to summon that spirit once more. We need to summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago today." Obama's health care and energy reform plans are moving through Congress, and raising concerns on both sides of the aisle regarding their cost and impact. He has asked Congress to send him legislation on both issues this fall, an ambitious timetable lawmakers may not be able to meet. In his address, Obama called the wars in
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July 4th, 2009 By ADAM LIPTAK
Environmental groups lost all five of their cases before the Supreme Court last term, a trend scholars see continuing as the court moves to the right.
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AP - With a fireworks show and a picnic at the White House, President Barack Obama leads the nation in observing Independence Day.
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