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• Obama sees court pick as smart with common touch (AP)
• Gay US diplomats to receive equal benefits (AP)
• Don't call ex-Vice President Cheney a has-been (AP)
• Obama looking for common touch in next justice (AP)
• GOP Rep. rips 'reprehensible' video (Politico)
• Obama hopes for `leaner, meaner' GM and Chrysler (AP)
• Obama committed to moving ahead on health care (AP)
• Uncertain NASA gets familiar former astronaut boss (AP)
• Obama in fresh overture to Cuba on immigration (AP)
• Obama says he's a night owl, working on big issues (AP)
• Labor pushes Wall Street on card check (Politico)
• Honolulu's Internet vote considered 1st in nation (AP)
• GOP: Alternative energy alone won't meet US needs (AP)
• Iran says powers agree to nuclear talks after vote (Reuters)
• Senate GOP: Not so fast on Court pick (Politico)
• Obama mourns ex-South Korean President Roh (AP)
• Analysis: Iran looms over Obama Mideast peace bid (AP)
• Analysis: CIA's Panetta navigating tight course (AP)
• Obama picks ex-astronaut Bolden to lead NASA (Reuters)
• Senate vote not last word on Guantanamo (AP)

Obama sees court pick as smart with common touch (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 04:57 PM PDT AP - On the verge of choosing his first Supreme Court nominee, President Barack Obama has already provided a profile of the person he is likely to pick: an intellectual heavyweight with a "common touch," someone whose brand of justice means seeing life from the perspective of the powerless.

Gay US diplomats to receive equal benefits (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 04:38 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that gay American diplomats will be given benefits similar to those that their heterosexual counterparts enjoy, U.S. officials said Saturday.

Don't call ex-Vice President Cheney a has-been (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 09:48 AM PDT AP - Dick Cheney refuses to be a has-been.

Obama looking for common touch in next justice (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 06:53 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he doesn't feel "weighed down" by a need to pick the next Supreme Court justice based on demographics, arguing that intellectual firepower and empathy with ordinary people are more important.

GOP Rep. rips 'reprehensible' video (Politico) Posted: 23 May 2009 02:19 PM PDT Politico - At least one Republican doesn't think it's OK to compare Nancy Pelosi to Pussy Galore.

Obama hopes for `leaner, meaner' GM and Chrysler (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 08:09 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC must emerge from their restructuring as "leaner, meaner" companies and that a substantial market awaits them if they make the right decisions.

Obama committed to moving ahead on health care (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 11:11 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says it's going to be very difficult to push a major health care overhaul through Congress.

Uncertain NASA gets familiar former astronaut boss (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 11:08 AM PDT AP - The nation's turbulent space program will be run by one of its own, a calming well-liked former space shuttle commander.

Obama in fresh overture to Cuba on immigration (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 09:28 AM PDT AP - In a fresh overture to Cuba, President Barack Obama is asking the communist government to resume talks on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States.

Obama says he's a night owl, working on big issues (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 11:07 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he's a night owl.

Labor pushes Wall Street on card check (Politico) Posted: 23 May 2009 03:24 PM PDT Politico - The labor movement is taking square aim at Wall Street with a new tool in its fight to pass the Employee Free Choice Act – the hundreds of billions of dollars in pension funds it manages for union workers and retirees, some of it held by the same firms that are fighting the provision known as "card check."

Honolulu's Internet vote considered 1st in nation (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - Voting has ended in what is being touted as the nation's first all-digital election, and city officials say it has been a success.

GOP: Alternative energy alone won't meet US needs (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 01:04 PM PDT AP - A GOP senator from the nation's leading coal-producing state contends Democrats will increase energy costs and make the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil if they focus solely on alternative energy.

Iran says powers agree to nuclear talks after vote (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2009 11:00 AM PDT Reuters - Iran has told world powers including the United States talks on its nuclear program must wait until after the Islamic Republic's presidential election on June 12, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.

Senate GOP: Not so fast on Court pick (Politico) Posted: 23 May 2009 10:36 AM PDT Politico - Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are resisting President Barack Obama’s call for a swift confirmation of his choice for Supreme Court, opening a rift between the parties even before the nominee has even been named.

Obama mourns ex-South Korean President Roh (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 10:06 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama remembers former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun as contributing to a "strong and vital" relationship between the two countries.

Analysis: Iran looms over Obama Mideast peace bid (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 09:41 AM PDT AP - An increasingly emboldened Iran is both complicating and giving promise to the Obama administration's efforts to forge peace in the Middle East.

Analysis: CIA's Panetta navigating tight course (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 09:34 AM PDT AP - If Leon Panetta was hired to lead the CIA because of his deft touch with Congress, he's been earning his paycheck.

Obama picks ex-astronaut Bolden to lead NASA (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2009 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama will name former space shuttle commander Charles Bolden to lead NASA, the White House said on Saturday, in the midst of a major shift in the U.S. human space program.

Senate vote not last word on Guantanamo (AP) Posted: 23 May 2009 09:18 AM PDT AP - With President Barack Obama showing the way, some Senate Democrats are signaling a willingness to permit transferring suspected terrorists from Guantanamo to U.S. prisons despite a high-profile vote to the contrary.

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