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Time for Iggy to get seriousToronto SunHow many times does he expect to trot out the veiled election threat? Has he heard an old tale about a boy and a wolf? Perhaps rather than muse yet again ...and more » |
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July 31st, 2009 By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and NATE SCHWEBER
Peter Cammarano III is accused of accepting $25,000 in cash from an undercover agent who posed as a developer.
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July 31st, 2009 By PETER STEINFELS
A new report chronicles a chief Bush undertaking and its prospects in the Obama administration.
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July 31st, 2009 By JACKIE CALMES
The president’s plan to pay for overhauling health care may collide with political and economic limits, critics from conservative to liberal warn.
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July 31st, 2009 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A grass-roots lobbying firm has acknowledged forging letters opposed to the climate bill that were sent to a Virginia lawmaker.
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July 31st, 2009 By IAN URBINA
City officials asked federal lawmakers not to restore a ban that prevented the city of Washington from using local money to distribute clean needles to drug users.
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July 31st, 2009 By MICHAEL COOPER
The stimulus law designates $200 million to the Leaking Underground Storage Tank program under the provocative LUST designation.
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July 31st, 2009 By STEVE FRIESS
A renomination of a United States attorney in Nevada would restore a job lost in a controversial firing of nine prosecutors in the Bush administration.
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July 31st, 2009 By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Senator Christopher J. Dodd said on Friday that he will have surgery during the Senate recess in August.
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July 31st, 2009 By ANDREA FULLER
A response to outrage over bonuses, the bill would give regulators new powers and shareholders symbolic votes.
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July 31st, 2009 TIME.com Top Politics Stories
A White House counsel says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund should not impact her nomination
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Time.com - The corruption arrests are just the latest boon to Chris Christie's challenge of Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine, an off-year race that both parties are watching for its national implications
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AP - The U.S. general put in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign and may include a request for more U.S. forces that the White House is expected to resist.
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AP - An Army colonel's colorfully worded memo arguing for the U.S. to declare victory in Iraq and leave next summer suggests the possibility of an important shift in the debate about U.S. withdrawal plans.
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AP - A Texas man who pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack Obama and the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis was sentenced Friday to four years of probation and home detention.
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AP - President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, senior officials and Cabinet members were gathering away from the White House this weekend to discuss administration progress at the six-month mark and plot a course ahead.
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AP - Republicans from Iowa and New Hampshire defended their coveted early spots in presidential nominating contests Friday, as national party leaders consider recommending a new pathway to the White House for the 2012 election.
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AP - The White House said Friday that former Philippines President Corazon Aquino will be remembered for her "crucial role" in moving the country to democratic rule through non-violent protest.
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AP - Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (uh-ROY'-oh) is remembering former President Corazon Aquino as a "national treasure" who led the country at a time of great peril.
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Politico - Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined a doubled-edged message for selling health care reform in August: one part pro-consumer and the second, attacking the health insurance industry with the same passion she took on George W. Bush’s Social Security privatization plans four years ago.
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By Garance Franke-Ruta The daughter of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., Elizabeth Gates, had some harsh words in the Daily Beast Friday for the so-called "Beer Summit" Thursday at the White House, involving her father, President Obama, Vice President Biden and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Henry Gates for disorderly conduct earlier this month. Elizabeth Gates, who joined her father at the White House, writes in "What I Saw at the Beer Summit" that the gathering "seemed to make little sense at all." "It wasn't because the president was wrong in offering up a few cold ones to my father, Henry Louis Gates, and the now infamous Sgt. James Crowley in an attempt to tame the media blitz around my father's arrest -- it was because like most issues that make their way to TMZ, the reference point had shifted. The debate over Red Stripe and
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AP - A Texas man who pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack Obama and the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis was sentenced to four years of probation and home detention Friday.
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AP - President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, senior officials and Cabinet members were gathering away from the White House this weekend to discuss administration progress at the six-month mark and plot a course ahead.
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“Where is Waldo” Ignatieff?Cornwall Seaway NewsIgnatieff told us he held off on the election because he didn't want to spoil our summer. Some summer. Some of us would have paddled in canoes to the ...and more » |
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AP - This was one government stimulus plan that yielded quick results. Maybe too quick.
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AP - A former U.S. attorney for Nevada who was forced to resign during the Bush administration could soon be getting his old job back.
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AP - Perhaps the biggest "teachable moment" from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. saga was for President Barack Obama: If you want to improve race relations, you have to enter the fray.
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AP - Democrats sought to limit increases in the cost of insurance sold under a sweeping health care bill Friday as they labored to clear the final committee obstacle to a September showdown on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON Congress and the Obama administration scrambled Friday to triple the size of the overwhelmingly popular "cash for clunkers" program after it appeared to be exhausting its $1 billion funding in its first week.
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Time.com - The corruption arrests are just the latest boon to Chris Christie's challenge of Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine, an off-year race that both parties are watching for its national implications
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AP - A Washington grassroots lobbying firm has acknowledged forging anti-climate bill letters purporting to be from a local NAACP chapter and a Latino advocacy group to a Virginia lawmaker, and a congressional committee said it was launching an investigation.
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US Troops Fight for Election SecurityCBS NewsThe jump in violence comes as the US tries to stabilize the country ahead of next month's Presidential election. As CBS News Correspondent Mandy Clark ... |
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July 31st, 2009 By CARL HULSE
Junior Democrats want to be sure they can embrace the emerging health care plan, particularly after they had to cast a difficult vote on climate-change legislation.
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AP - Bowing to populist anger, the House voted Friday to prohibit pay and bonus packages that encourage bankers and traders to take risks so big they could bring down the entire economy.
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AP - A nationwide government anti-terrorism exercise this week inadvertently alarmed a Florida man who happened to catch a mock television broadcast that was part of the drill.
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One of the 146 images released by the Air Force of the late April flight taken by Air Force One over Manhattan (Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force) By Ed O'Keefe Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by other news organizations, the Air Force released Friday 146 images from April's ill-fated Air Force One flyover of Manhattan. The incident involved a Boeing 747 jet used to transport President Obama and two accompanying Air Force fighter jets that circled Lower Manhattan, near where two commercial airliners struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The site of low-flying planes in the vicinity sparked a citywide panic and angry reactions from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other New York officials. The White House later apologized, as did Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, who approved the flyover. "While federal authorities took the proper steps to
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AP - An Army colonel's colorfully worded memo arguing for the U.S. to declare victory in Iraq and leave next summer suggests the possibility of an important shift in the debate about U.S. withdrawal plans.
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Politico - Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) has called Grover Norquist’s anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform “lying sacks of scum” for lumping him in with other moderate Democrats who support the House health reform bill.
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AP - Saudi Arabia on Friday bluntly rejected U.S. appeals for improved relations with Israel as a way to help restart Middle East peace talks, saying the Jewish state is not interested in a deal.
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AP - The organization that gave birth to the modern civil rights movement is in danger of missing out on a chance to capitalize on the country's conversation on race, despite President Barack Obama's historic campaign and election.
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AP - The House has voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program.
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July 31st, 2009 By MICHAEL R. GORDON
A senior American military adviser says that the Iraqi forces suffer from deeply entrenched deficiencies, but that extending the stay of U.S. forces won’t help.
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Neil Irwin and Jonathan Starkey reported today on the latest gross domestic product figures, which fell at a 1 percent annual rate in the April-through-June quarter, compared with a 6.4 percent pace of decline in the first quarter of 2009. Speaking at the White House, President Obama hailed the improving GDP numbers as evidence that his administration's policies are beginning to "put the brakes on the recession." Obama said the oft-criticized $787 economic stimulus act, which extended unemployment benefits, provided aid to struggling state governments and financed an array of public works projects now getting off the ground, has been a big factor in slowing the nation's economic slide. But Obama warned that although the recession is easing, it might be many months before employment picks up. The nation's unemployment rate is 9.5 percent, and many analysts expect it will top out above 10 percent. In his statement, Obama acknowledged
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AP - The U.S. general put in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign and may include a request for more U.S. forces that the White House is expected to resist.
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AP - Tens of thousands of unsafe or decaying bridges carrying 100 million drivers a day must wait for repairs because states are spending stimulus money on spans that are already in good shape or on easier projects like repaving roads, an Associated Press analysis shows.
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