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• Report: Bush surveillance program was massive (AP)
• US moving away from Afghan drug eradication (AP)
• G-8 is not enough: Calls for larger, recast group (AP)
• FACT CHECK: GOP joins spin game over stimulus jobs (AP)
• G-8 summit lingo decoder (Politico)
• Analysis: Sept. may bring push for Iran sanctions (AP)
• Women's groups quiet on Sotomayor (AP)
• World has avoided economic disaster, Obama says (AP)
• Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells (AP)
• Obama picks SD senator's son as US attorney (AP)
• Prison for man caught with gun near Obama's home (AP)
• Burris out of 2010 run, Ill. Senate race wide open (AP)
• Obama proposes investor protections in wake of Madoff scandal (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Obama in Ghana on first sub-Saharan Africa visit (Reuters)
• Obama lands in Ghana on historic Africa trip (AP)
• Obama artist admits to 3 Boston vandalism charges (AP)
• Text of Obama's news conference on Friday (AP)
• Congress asked to address extremism in military (AP)
• Al-Qaida inmate gets access to Obama's books (AP)

Report: Bush surveillance program was massive (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:45 PM PDT AP - The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal.

US moving away from Afghan drug eradication (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:28 PM PDT AP - The 4,000 U.S. Marines now pushing deep into Taliban-controlled tracts as part of an expanded war in southern Afghanistan are setting up fire bases amid some of the most productive poppy fields in the world's opium-producing capital.

G-8 is not enough: Calls for larger, recast group (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:25 PM PDT AP - For all the smiles and upbeat talk, the just-ended Group of Eight summit showed how unwieldy the forum has become, run by Cold War-vintage powers while relegating the world's fastest growing economies — China, India and Brazil — to observers.

FACT CHECK: GOP joins spin game over stimulus jobs (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:36 PM PDT AP - House Republicans on Friday declared the nation's economic stimulus efforts a "dismal failure." But the convoluted math they used to disparage the recovery is as murky and meaningless as the White House formula championing the stimulus.

G-8 summit lingo decoder (Politico) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 10:15 AM PDT Politico - L'AQUILA, Italy—Summit planners seem to be capable of a kind of math most of us can only marvel at.

Analysis: Sept. may bring push for Iran sanctions (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:57 PM PDT AP - After a half-year of extending patient feelers to Iran, President Barack Obama has set a timeline — warning Tehran it must show willingness to negotiate an end to its nuclear program by September or face consequences.

Women's groups quiet on Sotomayor (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - Women's groups, euphoric when President Barack Obama chose Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, have been remarkably quiet in the weeks since on the judge who would be the court's third woman ever.

World has avoided economic disaster, Obama says (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:31 PM PDT AP - Lasting worldwide recovery "is still a ways off," President Barack Obama declared Friday, but he also said at the conclusion of a global summit that a disastrous economic collapse apparently has been averted.

Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 12:49 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home.

Obama picks SD senator's son as US attorney (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 05:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama nominated Brendan Johnson, the 34-year-old son of Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., on Friday to serve as U.S. attorney for South Dakota.

Prison for man caught with gun near Obama's home (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - A judge has given a five-year prison sentence to a 31-year-old man convicted of having a gun outside President Barack Obama's Chicago home in September.

Burris out of 2010 run, Ill. Senate race wide open (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - Embattled Sen. Roland Burris may have relieved Illinois Democrats of their biggest political headache and reduced Republican chances of capturing a valuable Senate seat next year by announcing Friday he won't run for a full term. Still, his withdrawal sets the stage for a major clash of political forces in 2010.

Obama proposes investor protections in wake of Madoff scandal (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:42 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Fresh on the heels of new proposals to regulate mortgages and other consumer credit products, the Obama administration on Friday sent Congress proposed legislation designed to head off another Bernard Madoff-style fraud.

Obama in Ghana on first sub-Saharan Africa visit (Reuters) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:30 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama was given a hero's welcome in Ghana on Friday on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office as the first black president of the United States.

Obama lands in Ghana on historic Africa trip (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa.

Obama artist admits to 3 Boston vandalism charges (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:39 PM PDT AP - The artist who created the "Hope" poster of President Barack Obama was sentenced to two years of probation Friday after pleading guilty to three vandalism charges. Prosecutors dropped 11 other charges.

Text of Obama's news conference on Friday (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:26 PM PDT AP - Text of President Barack Obama's news conference on Friday in L'Aquila, Italy, as provided by the White House:

Congress asked to address extremism in military (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:42 PM PDT AP - One of the country's main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding U.S. service members participating on a social networking site advertised as being for white people only.

Al-Qaida inmate gets access to Obama's books (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:23 PM PDT AP - The Bureau of Prisons says it reversed course months ago to allow some of the country's most dangerous prisoners to read two books written by President Barack Obama.

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