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• Collision turns attention to for-hire flights (AP)
• Now that she's sworn in, Sotomayor a rookie again (AP)
• Analysis: Eritrea confounds US in Somalia (AP)
• Health-care outbursts foreshadow a hot August (AP)
• Obama: Health overhaul key to economic recovery (AP)
• Sotomayor takes oath from Chief Justice Roberts (AP)
• Clinton: US to work with Afghan election winner (AP)
• Analysis: To-do list largely undone (AP)
• Drug industry backing Obama's health care plan (AP)
• Clinton: Chinese reassured on US financial health (AP)
• As Dems fret, Obama sharpens war goals (Politico)
• Healthcare critics make outlandish claims: Obama (Reuters)
• Look at what Congress has done so far this year (AP)
• NY's Gillibrand gets clearer path to 2010 election (AP)
• THE INFLUENCE GAME: Chamber at odds with Obama (AP)
• Clinton declares US-South Africa ties on the mend (AP)
• AP Enterprise: Faulty speed sensors found on jets (AP)
• Demonstrators disrupt health care forums (AP)
• Drugmakers’ Deal Doesn’t Bind Congress in Health-Care Debate (Bloomberg)

Collision turns attention to for-hire flights (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:52 PM PDT AP - The collision that sent a sightseeing helicopter full of tourists and a small plane into the Hudson River on Saturday comes less than a month after a federal watchdog warned that safety oversight of sightseeing and other for-hire flights is too lax.

Now that she's sworn in, Sotomayor a rookie again (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 07:04 PM PDT AP - Sonia Sotomayor has gained admission to the Marble Palace. Now she has to figure out how the Supreme Court works.

Analysis: Eritrea confounds US in Somalia (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT AP - As it boosts aid to Somalia's weak interim government to fight an al-Qaida-linked Islamist militia, the Obama administration is grasping for ways to cut off what it says is one of the militant group's main supply lines: the tiny Red Sea state of Eritrea.

Health-care outbursts foreshadow a hot August (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:23 PM PDT AP - Loud outbursts, hot tempers and pleas for civility at town hall meetings around the country Saturday foreshadowed a long, hot August as Democratic lawmakers returning home faced resistance to proposals to reform the nation's costly health care system.

Obama: Health overhaul key to economic recovery (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:26 PM PDT AP - Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama is arguing that overhauling the health care system is essential to the country's economic well-being.

Sotomayor takes oath from Chief Justice Roberts (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:26 PM PDT AP - Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's newest justice Saturday, pledging during a brief ceremony at the high court to defend the Constitution and administer impartial justice.

Clinton: US to work with Afghan election winner (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 01:04 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the U.S. is ready to work with the winner of Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election.

Analysis: To-do list largely undone (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:41 PM PDT AP - Midway through their first year in power, President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress can point to early signs the nation is beginning to shake off its worst recession in seven decades.

Drug industry backing Obama's health care plan (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:50 PM PDT AP - The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority.

Clinton: Chinese reassured on US financial health (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:44 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she thinks the Chinese "are breathing a little easier" about the health of the U.S. financial system.

As Dems fret, Obama sharpens war goals (Politico) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 02:40 PM PDT Politico - President Barack Obama next month will send Congress a new plan for measuring progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in an effort to build confidence among wavering Democrats and give sharper direction to a costly and increasingly bloody war, White House officials told POLITICO on Saturday.

Healthcare critics make outlandish claims: Obama (Reuters) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:16 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama accused his critics on Saturday of resorting to "outlandish rumors" and "misleading information" aimed at derailing his efforts to overhaul the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system.

Look at what Congress has done so far this year (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:10 AM PDT AP - Some of the Democratic-led 111th Congress' accomplishments in the six months since Democratic President Barack Obama took office:

NY's Gillibrand gets clearer path to 2010 election (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 09:21 AM PDT AP - Kirsten Gillibrand didn't have the pedigree of a Kennedy, Clinton or a Cuomo. She was not, her critics said, up to the challenge of winning a tough, New York brawl for the U.S. Senate seat Gov. David Paterson handed her.

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Chamber at odds with Obama (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 09:09 AM PDT AP - If President Barack Obama wants to take the measure of his opposition, he only has to glance across Lafayette Park from the White House. There, behind 10 massive Corinthian columns, is the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — a leading critic of the administration's health care and banking overhaul plans.

Clinton declares US-South Africa ties on the mend (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 07:37 AM PDT AP - At a housing project for the homeless she once visited as first lady, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton basked in the cheers and serenade from an adoring crowd Saturday and pronounced U.S.-South African ties on the mend after years of strain.

AP Enterprise: Faulty speed sensors found on jets (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 03:16 AM PDT AP - The discovery of faulty airspeed sensors on some Northwest Airlines jets suggests the equipment problems are more widespread than previously believed and could provide clues to the cause of the Air France crash that killed 228 people in June.

Demonstrators disrupt health care forums (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2009 01:58 AM PDT AP - As they head home to their congressional districts for the August recess, lawmakers who support health care reform are bracing for protests and demonstrations that threaten to turn violent.

Drugmakers’ Deal Doesn’t Bind Congress in Health-Care Debate (Bloomberg) Posted: 07 Aug 2009 09:01 PM PDT Bloomberg - Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The bargain U.S. drugmakers struck with President Barack Obama for the pharmaceutical industry to absorb no more than $80 billion in cost cuts as part of a health-care overhaul can’t be enforced on Congress, lawmakers say.

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