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• Lobbyists the silver lining in health care storm? (AP)
• Report: Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo (AP)
• Analysis: Race is daunting challenge for Obama (AP)
• SPIN METER: Few health exec visits to WH public (AP)
• Obama tries to retake race high ground (Politico)
• Some incumbent senators seem to get no respect (AP)
• Defense secretary scores big wins on weapons cuts (AP)
• Obama hawks health care overhaul, citing study (AP)
• Schumer wants to curb traders' flash orders (AP)
• US: Parade of officials to Israel coincidental (AP)
• Both U.S. political parties offend "Joe the Plumber" (Reuters)
• Iraq to send students to colleges in US, abroad (AP)
• CBO deals new blow to health plan (Politico)
• Iran opposition urge clerics to act over detainees (Reuters)
• Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman (Reuters)
• First lady fetes designers, stresses arts exposure (AP)
• Blow for Iran's Ahmadinejad as vice-president sacked (AFP)
• Clinton's 'defense umbrella' has murky history (AP)
• Obama touts healthcare plan for small businesses (Reuters)

Lobbyists the silver lining in health care storm? (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:17 PM PDT AP - A strong force, perhaps as powerful in Congress as President Barack Obama, is keeping the drive for health care going even as lawmakers seem hopelessly at odds.

Report: Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:02 PM PDT AP - The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.

Analysis: Race is daunting challenge for Obama (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:58 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's summary of the furor over a black Harvard professor's arrest was so understated, and perhaps obvious, that it barely rose above the cable-news driven din.

SPIN METER: Few health exec visits to WH public (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:22 AM PDT AP - Despite President Barack Obama's promise of transparency on his health care overhaul, few White House meetings with medical industry representatives on a list recently released by his administration were made public at the time, an Associated Press review found.

Obama tries to retake race high ground (Politico) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:44 PM PDT Politico - With two phone calls and a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Friday, President Obama attempted to recast his role in the debate over last week's arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. by the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department.

Some incumbent senators seem to get no respect (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:05 PM PDT AP - When it comes to next year's primaries, three senators probably are feeling a lot like Rodney Dangerfield: They can't get any respect.

Defense secretary scores big wins on weapons cuts (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:51 PM PDT AP - Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last?

Obama hawks health care overhaul, citing study (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama, citing a new White House study suggesting that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than big companies, said Saturday the disparity is "unsustainable — it's unacceptable."

Schumer wants to curb traders' flash orders (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:08 PM PDT AP - Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has asked federal securities regulators to crack down on a high-speed computing advantage that large financial firms have over other investors.

US: Parade of officials to Israel coincidental (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:02 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration is dispatching four of its most senior foreign policy and security figures to Israel this coming week with the same message on two open questions causing friction between the close allies: Don't do it.

Both U.S. political parties offend "Joe the Plumber" (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:50 PM PDT Reuters - "Joe the Plumber," who came to symbolize U.S. taxpayer frustration during last year's election, sounds even angrier now at what he sees as excessive government spending on the economy and healthcare reform.

Iraq to send students to colleges in US, abroad (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:46 PM PDT AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his country plans to send up to 10,000 Iraqi students per year to colleges in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia over the next five years as a part of a new scholarship program.

CBO deals new blow to health plan (Politico) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:47 PM PDT Politico - For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years.

Iran opposition urge clerics to act over detainees (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 11:32 AM PDT Reuters - Iran's opposition urged senior clerics on Saturday to help secure the release of people arrested following June's disputed presidential election, after a protester died in prison.

Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 11:24 AM PDT Reuters - A prominent black Harvard University scholar has accepted an invitation to have a beer with President Barack Obama and the white police officer who arrested him in a racially charged case.

First lady fetes designers, stresses arts exposure (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 06:37 AM PDT AP - If you think your kids spend a little too much time on their laptops, take heart: Michelle Obama has the same problem.

Blow for Iran's Ahmadinejad as vice-president sacked (AFP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 05:22 AM PDT AFP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday caved in to hardliners and sacked his controversial deputy, suffering his first major blow to forge a new government since his disputed re-election last month.

Clinton's 'defense umbrella' has murky history (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:53 AM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set off tremors in the Middle East this week when she said a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. "defense umbrella" — an offhand remark that appears to have emerged from obscure Washington policy debates and her own presidential campaign rhetoric.

Obama touts healthcare plan for small businesses (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2009 03:22 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said Saturday that Democratic plans to revamp the U.S. healthcare system would benefit small businesses, an argument that quickly drew criticism from his Republican opponents.

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