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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 – 2 hrs 6 mins ago- 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
- Waters chooses ethics trial at Politico – Fri Jul 30, 8:27 pm ET
- House OKs Gulf spill bill at Politico – Fri Jul 30, 6:34 pm ET
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House approves bill on drilling, oil spills
AP – Fri Jul 30, 7:38 pm ETWASHINGTON - The House approved a bill Friday to boost safety standards for offshore drilling, remove a federal cap on economic liability for oil spills and impose new fees on oil and gas production. 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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Berlusconi ousts ally, says government stable
AP – Fri Jul 30, 2:05 pm ETAP
ROME - Silvio Berlusconi has split with his oldest political ally and co-founder of his party, a spectacular falling-out expected to make it harder for the premier to push disputed legislation through parliament. Full Story »
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Kan. Senate race turns nasty as GOP seeks fighter
AP – Fri Jul 30, 8:31 pm ETAP
TOPEKA, Kan. - The big issue in Kansas' U.S. Senate race is which of two veteran Republican congressmen will fight hardest — and loudest — against President Barack Obama's agenda. 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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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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When will spill be cleaned up? Maybe never
McClatchy Newspapers – 2 hrs 45 mins agoAfter 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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Increase in FHA Mortgage Insurance Premiums Passes in House
CQPolitics.com – Fri Jul 30, 1:22 pm ETThe House passed legislation Friday to give the Federal Housing Administration flexibility to raise mortgage insurance premiums on the loans it guarantees. 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 »White House urges halt to spilling of war secrets
AP – Fri Jul 30, 5:45 pm ETThe Obama administration on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents, as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the massive security breach by bringing a soldier under scrutiny back to the U.S. for trial. Full Story »
Inside the FLOTUS office
Politico – Wed Jul 28, 2:15 pm ETThe Oval Office is nearly as familiar an image as the president himself. Full Story »
Paperwork nightmare: A struggle to fix new law
AP – Fri Jul 30, 7:26 pm ETTalk about a paperwork nightmare: Tucked into the massive new health care law is a demand that nearly 40 million U.S. businesses file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods. Full Story »
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