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• White House tempers Obama remark about police (AP)
• Obama takes a stand on race — in a divisive case (AP)
• US intelligence gathering in Afghanistan expanded (AP)
• Obama health plan delayed — trouble ahead? (AP)
• Dems punting on August deadline (Politico)
• US: 160M doses of swine flu vaccine due in Oct. (AP)
• Obama says Senate's delay in health care bill 'OK' (AP)
• Obama raises millions for Democrats (AP)
• House Blue Dogs find their voice on health care (AP)
• Analysis: Obama putting more emphasis on restraint (AP)
• Obama remark on black scholar's arrest angers cops (AP)
• House passes increase for housing, high-speed rail (AP)
• Obama stirs racial passions in Harvard case (Reuters)
• Obama: 'Victory' not right word for Afghanistan (AP)
• Obama says he prays 'all the time' for guidance (AP)
• Pitch perfect: President congratulates Buehrle (AP)
• Senator involved in affair loses key staff members (AP)
• New burst of attention for old doubts about Obama (AP)
• Top US Senate ally deals blow to Obama health plan (AFP)
• Poll: US image abroad surges under Obama (AP)

White House tempers Obama remark about police (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:50 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he was surprised by all the hubbub over his comments that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting a prominent black scholar for disorderly conduct. The president didn't take back his words, but he allowed that he understood the sergeant who made the arrest is an "outstanding police officer."

Obama takes a stand on race — in a divisive case (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 06:11 PM PDT AP - Making his first foray into a divisive racial issue, President Barack Obama sided with Henry Louis Gates Jr. after the black scholar's arrest by a white police officer, a striking departure from Obama's "post-racial" impartiality.

US intelligence gathering in Afghanistan expanded (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:44 PM PDT AP - U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan are assembling a potent intelligence-gathering operation to help defeat the Taliban insurgency, a senior Defense Department official said Thursday.

Obama health plan delayed — trouble ahead? (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:52 PM PDT AP - Slow down, Senate Democrats told President Barack Obama on Thursday, dashing hopes of rushing his sweeping health care overhaul to a summertime vote and adding to the troubles the plan could face as the year wears on. "That's OK," the president replied gamely. "Just keep working."

Dems punting on August deadline (Politico) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 11:03 AM PDT Politico - Congressional leaders have all but given up on passing health care reform before an August deadline, and Democrats in both chambers of Congress engaged in heated closed-door meetings Thursday as they struggled to find consensus on President Barack Obama's top priority.

US: 160M doses of swine flu vaccine due in Oct. (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 06:02 PM PDT AP - The U.S. may have as many as 160 million doses of swine flu vaccine available sometime in October, even though manufacturers worldwide are having serious trouble brewing shots, federal health officials said Thursday.

Obama says Senate's delay in health care bill 'OK' (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 06:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama stepped up his us-against-them pitch for overhauling health care Thursday, saying the American people need it and must overcome resistance from opponents in Washington, whom he described vaguely as naysayers and skeptics.

Obama raises millions for Democrats (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 06:09 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama raised millions of dollars Thursday for Democratic candidates in next year's elections, making a side trip to his hometown of Chicago after pushing for health care changes in Cleveland.

House Blue Dogs find their voice on health care (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:13 PM PDT AP - Conservative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats are enjoying a power surge like no other in their 15 years, forcing President Barack Obama and their own party leaders to deal with their demands for cost cuts and tax restraints in overhauling health care.

Analysis: Obama putting more emphasis on restraint (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:34 PM PDT AP - At a critical moment in his presidency, Barack Obama finds increasing need to talk about taming federal deficits as he struggles with a dour economy.

Obama remark on black scholar's arrest angers cops (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.

House passes increase for housing, high-speed rail (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:52 PM PDT AP - The Democratic-dominated House Thursday approved generous funding for housing subsidies for the poor and President Barack Obama's initiative to build high-speed railroads as it passed a $123.1 billion transportation and housing bill.

Obama stirs racial passions in Harvard case (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:41 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama plunged his presidency into a charged racial debate and set off a firestorm in one of America's most liberal bastions by siding with a black Harvard scholar who accuses police of racism.

Obama: 'Victory' not right word for Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he's uncomfortable using the word "victory" to describe the United States' goal in Afghanistan. He says the U.S. fight there is against broader terrorism and not a nation.

Obama says he prays 'all the time' for guidance (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:38 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he's gone from praying nightly before going to bed to praying all the time because he has a "lot of stuff" on his plate and needs "guidance all the time."

Pitch perfect: President congratulates Buehrle (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:35 PM PDT AP - First fan Barack Obama made time for a congratulatory call to the pitcher on his favorite baseball team who just threw a perfect game.

Senator involved in affair loses key staff members (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:17 PM PDT AP - Republican Sen. John Ensign, who last month admitted to an extramarital affair with a campaign aide, is losing his chief of staff and his spokesman.

New burst of attention for old doubts about Obama (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:58 PM PDT AP - Six months after Barack Obama's inauguration, a persistent and noisy legion of doubters won't let go of an already debunked claim — that he is actually a foreign-born, illegal president.

Top US Senate ally deals blow to Obama health plan (AFP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:51 PM PDT AFP - Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that lawmakers had given up on voting on a sweeping health care overhaul before September, in a blow to President Barack Obama's plans.

Poll: US image abroad surges under Obama (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:27 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's popularity has boosted America's image abroad even though deep suspicions about the U.S. persist in the Muslim world, according to a poll released Thursday.

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