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• Idaho town prays for return of captured US soldier (AP)
• Officials: Health care proposal a work in progress (AP)
• Palin: Alaska tour is thanks, not goodbye (AP)
• Analysis: Sotomayor would be beholden to no one (AP)
• Ad paints insurers as allies of reform (Politico)
• Starting to get crowded in 100-year-olds' club (AP)
• GOP leader: Health care overhaul too drastic (AP)
• Bad time to be rich? Only if you don't like taxes (AP)
• In D.C., what recession? (Politico)
• Junta leader declared Mauritania president (AFP)
• Administration Facing Tough Sell To Doctors On Health IT (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Budget chief sees progress in health care overhaul (AP)
• Sessions remains troubled by Sotomayor's record (AP)
• Senate GOP chief: Sotomayor won't get my vote (AP)
• Health care overhaul seen as `a work in progress' (AP)
• STIMULUS WATCH: Neediest areas not first for money (AP)
• Film shows students battle racism for mixed prom (Reuters)
• Obama feels the heat, changes the play (Politico)

Idaho town prays for return of captured US soldier (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 03:01 PM PDT AP - Friends and family of an Idaho soldier who was captured in Afghanistan prayed for his safe return Sunday, shaken by the image of the frightened young private in a Taliban video posted online.

Officials: Health care proposal a work in progress (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 02:43 PM PDT AP - Administration officials defended President Barack Obama's broad health care proposals on Sunday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Democrats' overhaul until Congress writes a final version.

Palin: Alaska tour is thanks, not goodbye (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 12:51 PM PDT AP - She was greeted like a rock star in Unalakleet, a fishing village on the Bering Sea. She danced with Eskimos in Kotzebue. And she watched grizzlies at a wildlife sanctuary on the Kenai Peninsula.

Analysis: Sotomayor would be beholden to no one (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 09:27 AM PDT AP - Once Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Supreme Court, all those hours of predictable questions and cautious replies at her Senate confirmation hearings will be filed and forgotten as she judges the way she sees fit. Nobody can hold her to what she's said.

Ad paints insurers as allies of reform (Politico) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT Politico - For the first time since Harry and Louise helped sink health care reform in 1994, the insurance industry is back on the airwaves Monday with a seven-figure, national cable television ad campaign.

Starting to get crowded in 100-year-olds' club (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:59 AM PDT AP - It's starting to get crowded in the 100-year-olds' club. Once virtually nonexistent, the world's population of centenarians is projected to reach nearly 6 million by midcentury. That's pushing the median age toward 50 in many developed nations and challenging views of what it means to be old and middle-age.

GOP leader: Health care overhaul too drastic (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:41 AM PDT AP - The Senate's top Republican says the U.S. has the best health care in the world and the system doesn't need to be scrapped.

Bad time to be rich? Only if you don't like taxes (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:59 AM PDT AP - It's probably never a bad time to be rich. But the good times for America's wealthy could soon be a little less so.

In D.C., what recession? (Politico) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:47 PM PDT Politico - The rest of the country has a new reason to hate the inside-the-Beltway crowd: Our economy is better than yours.

Junta leader declared Mauritania president (AFP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 03:06 PM PDT AFP - The army general who led a military coup that toppled Mauritania's first elected head of state last August was on Sunday declared the winner of a presidential election organised by his junta.

Administration Facing Tough Sell To Doctors On Health IT (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:55 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama Administration's national coordinator for health information technology, can recall the day he became a true believer in the potential of electronic health records.

Budget chief sees progress in health care overhaul (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 07:31 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's budget director is playing down reports that lawmakers are bogged down over the health care overhaul.

Sessions remains troubled by Sotomayor's record (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT AP - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains troubled by some of Sonia Sotomayor's remarks and rulings.

Senate GOP chief: Sotomayor won't get my vote (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 07:07 AM PDT AP - The Senate's top Republican says he admires Judge Sonia Sotomayor's personal story but is not going to vote for her confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Health care overhaul seen as `a work in progress' (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:23 AM PDT AP - The president's health secretary says the Obama administration's health care overhaul is "a work in progress.

STIMULUS WATCH: Neediest areas not first for money (AP) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:57 AM PDT AP - Under the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan, needy communities were supposed to be a priority when doling out money to rebuild highways and jump-start the economy.

Film shows students battle racism for mixed prom (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:41 AM PDT Reuters - As Barack Obama campaigned to become the first black U.S. president, teenagers in the small Mississippi hometown of Hollywood star Morgan Freeman battled racism to hold their high school's first integrated prom.

Obama feels the heat, changes the play (Politico) Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:03 AM PDT Politico - Finally, we're starting to see him sweat.

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