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Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation.

Obama joins students to lend a hand at park (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:22 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday rolled up his sleeves and got his shoes muddy as he, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton planted trees at a national park site along the Anacostia River in northeast Washington.

3 lawyers face scrutiny for torture advice (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT AP - Three Bush administration lawyers who worked in an elite Justice Department unit face further scrutiny over their advice on how to conduct tough interrogations of terror suspects, but criminal prosecution remains only an outside possibility.

Cyber hackers breached jet fighter program (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:05 PM PDT AP - Cyber hackers nearly two years ago breached a high-tech jet fighter program developed for the Pentagon by Lockheed Martin Corp., but classified information was not compromised, a senior defense official said Tuesday.

New legislation triples service program (Politico) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:29 PM PDT Politico - President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to triple the size of the national service program, calling the expansion a new opportunity to connect “deeds to needs.”

Geithner tells overseers banks still in distress (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:15 PM PDT AP - America's banks are still broken despite all their bailout billions, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told impatient rescue overseers Tuesday as they pressed him on when things will get better and how much it will cost. A bleak new report estimated U.S. banks and other financial institutions could lose a stunning $2.7 trillion in all.

Divided Senate committee approves Sebelius at HHS (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:09 PM PDT AP - Kathleen Sebelius won Senate committee approval as health secretary over Republican opposition Tuesday, putting her on track for a final Senate vote in coming days.

Committee: Bayer engaged in campaign of secrecy (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - Bayer CropScience withheld information from emergency responders after a deadly explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant last summer, and has since used a terrorism-related law to keep some documents secret, a congressional committee said Tuesday.

Senate confirms new Iraq envoy (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Barack Obama's choice to be the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq despite fierce opposition from conservatives who complained about the nominee's diplomatic record.

Fear over higher costs looms over climate debate (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:39 PM PDT AP - As Congress begins to debate climate change in earnest, the science is taking a back seat to economics: How much will it cost to slow the Earth's warming because of man-made pollution — and what's the cost of doing nothing?

Obama official: Chrysler lender proposal unjustified (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:19 PM PDT Reuters - The latest debt reduction offer by Chrysler LLC's lenders is unacceptable because it would yield the lenders an unjustified return, an Obama administration official said on Tuesday.

GOP still using disputed data (Politico) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT Politico - GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence is defending Republican use of a widely disputed cost estimate on a Democratic global warming proposal, even after an outcry from media, environmentalists, and climate change experts.

Sources: Feds may drop classified leak case (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:07 PM PDT AP - The Justice Department is considering dropping its case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally disclosing national defense secrets, government officials said Tuesday.

Obama urges citizens to undertake national service (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.

Obama doesn't rule out charges over interrogations (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:16 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama left the door open on Tuesday to prosecuting some U.S. officials who laid the legal groundwork for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration.

Justices hear arguments over school strip search (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court seemed worried Tuesday about tying the hands of school officials looking for drugs and weapons on campus as they wrestled with the appropriateness of a strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen.

Unresolved debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work? (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT AP - Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons.

Top bailed-out firms continue lobbying (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:41 PM PDT AP - The top 10 recipients of the government's $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first three months of the year.

Obama invites Mideast leaders for separate talks (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:34 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will invite the Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian leaders to the White House in the coming weeks for separate talks on moving forward with the Middle East peace process, the White House said Tuesday.

USDA will review civil rights complaints (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:14 PM PDT AP - The Agriculture Department plans to review more than 14,000 civil rights complaints that have been filed against the agency since 2000.

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