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Need for results drives Obama's domestic juggle
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:04:28 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.
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AP Source: Obama wants Yellen as Fed vice chair
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:19:25 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama intends to nominate Janet Yellen, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, a person familiar with the selection said Friday.
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Reid's wife hospitalized after traffic accident
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:25 GMT
AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on a suburban Virginia interstate, officials said.
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Census to redefine poverty
(Politico)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:04:15 GMT Politico - In an Ideas piece, the authors praise a new measure as much needed update for the 21st century. |
Tea parties stir evangelicals' fears
(Politico)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:01:02 GMT Politico - The libertarian streak in the new conservative movement worries the Christian right. |
Democrats pare differences over health overhaul
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:04:05 GMT
AP - Top Democrats say they are resolving disputes over President Barack Obama's health overhaul plan, but they face decisions on subsidizing coverage and are still hunting votes to push the vast package through Congress.
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Senators question $1 million pay for charity's CEO
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:05:40 GMT
AP - A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.
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Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:02:03 GMT AP - Utah's House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago. |
'Little Billy's Letters' at a glance
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:58:21 GMT AP - Excerpts from the responses by prominent figures to letters from "Little Billy," the grade-school alter ego of prankster Bill Geerhart, appearing in the book "Little Billy's Letters": |
Ginsburg endorses end to local judicial elections
(AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:29:16 GMT AP - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is endorsing an end to the election of judges at the state and local levels. |
Critics of Justice Dept. lawyers under fire
(AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:40 GMT
AP - A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.
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Somali tied to Islamists worked with two U.N. agencies
(Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:33 GMT Reuters - A Somali businessman linked to Islamist rebels who likely received a ransom paid for kidnapped French aid workers was a contractor for the World Food Program and UNICEF, a U.N. report said. |
Vatican criticizes condom machines in Rome school
(AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:39:36 GMT
AP - The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have sex and Rome's mayor saying it sends the wrong message.
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Obama to tap Yellen for Fed vice chair: source
(Reuters)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:03:25 GMT
Reuters - President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source familiar with the process said on Thursday.
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Financial regulation bill to be introduced without GOP backing
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:08:00 GMT
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Long-awaited Senate legislation that would direct the broadest overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression will be introduced on Monday without any Republican support, despite weeks of bipartisan negotiations.
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Given Obamacare, How Will Democrats Fare?
(CQPolitics.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:06:25 GMT CQPolitics.com - President Barack Obama has taken to nonstop demonizing of the insurance industry -- a sign of desperation over the prospects of passing health care reform. |
Toyota Criticism Mounts on Eve of Recall Hearings
(Bloomberg)
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:28:42 GMT
Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of
recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the
automaker’s U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that
the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.
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