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APNewsBreak: Major problems found in war spending (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:22 PM PDT

US soldiers pack as they prepare to leave their base in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Under an agreement with Iraqi government, all US combat troops must leave Iraqi cities to garrisons outside the towns by the June 30 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - This is one Christmas gift U.S. taxpayers don't need. Construction of a $30 million dining facility at a U.S. base in Iraq is scheduled to be completed Dec. 25. But the decision to build it was based on bad planning and botched paperwork.

France gets its Obama moment (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 10:49 AM PDT

U.S. President barack Obama reacts from the top gallery during a visit to the Pompidou center in Paris, Sunday June 7, 2009. President Barack Obama spent a few hours as a tourist this weekend, seeing Paris with his wife and two young girls after his trip to the Middle East, Germany and the beaches of Normandy. The Pompidou center is a modern art museum constructed of color-coded ducts that has become a famous landmark since it opened in 1977. Obama is to leave France early afternoon on Sunday. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)AP - People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade. It was more personal for the few kept not so distant — the restaurant owner who "saw God," the chauffeur reveling in a "magnificent mission."

Clinton says NKorea reconsidered for terror list (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:57 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton answers questions during a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Friday, June 5, 2009, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The U.S. is considering adding North Korea back to a list of state sponsors of terrorism, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview broadcast Sunday after President Barack Obama pledged "a very hard look" at tougher measures because of the North's nuclear stance.

Senator says Obama 'got nerve' to push lawmakers (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 09:43 AM PDT

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, left, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., talk with reporters after a closed-door committee meeting on financing an overhaul of the health care system, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says that President Barack Obama "got nerve" to go sightseeing in Paris while telling lawmakers it's time to deliver on a health care overhaul.

Obama's trip raises the bar (Politico)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:06 AM PDT

Politico - PARIS – In his six-day, four-nation mission to the Mideast and Europe, President Barack Obama has set new expectations for his presidency that go beyond spreading hope and will require real results.

Obamas tour Paris as president ends overseas trip (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:13 AM PDT

U.S. President barack Obama reacts from the top gallery during a visit to the Pompidou center in Paris, Sunday June 7, 2009. President Barack Obama spent a few hours as a tourist this weekend, seeing Paris with his wife and two young girls after his trip to the Middle East, Germany and the beaches of Normandy. The Pompidou center is a modern art museum constructed of color-coded ducts that has become a famous landmark since it opened in 1977. Obama is to leave France early afternoon on Sunday. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)AP - President Barack Obama spent a few hours as a tourist this weekend, seeing Paris with his wife and two young girls after his trip to the Middle East, Germany and the beaches of Normandy.

Gingrich: A president alone can't make big change (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:19 AM PDT

AP - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says it will take more than a president alone to achieve the change needed for the U.S. to compete with China and India.

High court asked to block Chrysler sale to Fiat (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 10:01 AM PDT

File - Indiana Pension Fund attorney Tom Lauria exits Manhattan federal court, in this Friday, June 5, 2009 file photo taken in New York. Three Indiana state pension and construction funds filed emergency papers at the high court early Sunday June 7, 2009 to put the sale on hold so they can pursue an appeal. Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs of the New York-based appeals court asked Thomas Lauria, the lawyer representing the Indiana funds, why he believed his clients would be better off if the deal with Fiat went away and Chrysler was forced to liquidate. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)AP - Three Indiana state pension and construction funds want the Supreme Court to block Chrysler's sale to Fiat so they can pursue an appeal in hopes of getting a better deal.

Clinton: Obama can handle that 3 o'clock call (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 07:04 AM PDT

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton says that if the phone rings at 3 a.m. at the White House, she's certain that President Barack Obama will know what to do.

STIMULUS WATCH: In jobs, what's stability worth? (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:02 AM PDT

Lance Jackson works on the doors of a new, cleaner-burning bus at the Daimler Buses North America facility in Oriskany, N.Y., Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Washington is paying hundreds of millions of dollars for the new buses, one of the $787 billion stimulus plan programs, that has the less glamorous, harder-to-quantify effect of keeping workers employed - a buffer from the recession to some in the auto industry. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)AP - Washington is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to build new, cleaner-burning buses, but don't scour the want ads looking for a burst of job openings soon at major manufacturers or suppliers.

Conservatives tighten grip in EU election (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:35 PM PDT

Officials wait for voters at a polling station in Madrid. Conservative parties decisively beat Socialists in the EU parliamentary elections which ended Sunday, marred by a new record low turnout.(AFP/Miguel Riopa)AFP - Conservative parties decisively beat Socialists in the EU parliamentary elections which ended Sunday, marred by a new record low turnout.

Hariri coalition claims victory in Lebanon vote (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT

A Lebanese election official empties a ballot box before counting the votes at a polling station in Zahle in the Bekaa Valley. Lebanon's pro-Western coalition claimed victory on Monday over an alliance headed by the fundamentalist Shiite militant group Hezbollah after a fiercely-contested parliamentary election race.(AFP/Joseph Barrak)AFP - A US-backed coalition in Lebanon claimed victory on Monday over an alliance headed by the fundamentalist Shiite militant group Hezbollah after a fiercely-contested election.

Lebanon's pro-Western parties appear to defeat Hezbollah coalition (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:18 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BEIRUT - Lebanon's ruling pro-Western coalition appeared headed for a decisive political victory over its Iranian-backed Hezbollah rivals early Monday in the Middle East nation's most fiercely contested parliamentary election in decades.

Anti-Syrian bloc celebrates Lebanon election win (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 03:55 PM PDT

A Lebanese woman takes care of her laundry amid various campaign posters ahead of Lebanon's June 7 parliamentary election, in Tripoli June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Steve CrispReuters - An anti-Syrian coalition defeated Hezbollah in Lebanon's parliamentary election on Sunday in a blow to Syria and Iran and a boost to the United States.

Ukraine's PM Tymoshenko to run for president (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 10:45 AM PDT

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, pictured in April 2009, announced in a televised address Sunday that she will run for the presidency in an election in 2010.(AFP/File/Dmitry Kostyukov)AFP - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced in a televised address Sunday that she will run for the presidency in an election in 2010.

Clinton talks tough on N. Korea, Iran (Politico)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 09:38 AM PDT

Politico - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her first foray into the Sunday talk show circuit as a Cabinet secretary, delivered a tough and blunt message to North Korea and Iran, saying that diplomacy as well as “consequences and costs” are both on the table.

Gov't has 'grave concerns' over potential martyrs (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 09:02 AM PDT

AP - The Obama administration has grave concerns about allowing terrorism detainees to plead guilty and accept the death penalty.

SPIN METER: White House straddles health tax issue (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:51 AM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with Senate Democrats to discuss health care, Tuesday, June 2, 2009, in the State Dinning Room at the White House in Washington. From left are, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Obama and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - When it comes to taxing health insurance benefits, President Barack Obama hasn't said yes, and may never. But he and his top aides won't quite say no, either, to an idea he attacked sharply in his campaign for the White House.

Really, I do like you, Obama tells French and Germans (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:38 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy speak during a bilateral meeting at The Prefecture in France June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - Barack Obama's trip to Europe this weekend revealed deep anxieties among the French and Germans that the U.S. president, hugely popular in both countries, doesn't really like them.

Health and climate change vie for boost in Congress (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 07:42 AM PDT

Reuters - Barack Obama may be pressuring Congress as no U.S. president has for decades as he aims to get two big domestic goals passed this year -- reforming health care and fighting global warming.

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