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• AP sources: House Dems favor insurance requirement (AP)
• Obama repackages stimulus plans with old promises (AP)
• CIA urges judge to keep detainee papers secret (AP)
• Court adds uncertainty to Chrysler reorganization (AP)
• Palin again set to attend GOP dinner (Politico)
• Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appears at GOP fundraiser (AP)
• Flight 1549: The miracle that almost wasn't (AP)
• Bill gives FDA controls over tobacco advances (AP)
• Sotomayor limps to Senate visits on broken ankle (AP)
• War funding bill gets sidetracked (AP)
• NC man sentenced to prison for threatening Obama (AP)
• Providence mayor, union duel over national meeting (AP)
• Late surge shapes Va. governor race (Politico)
• Man ordered to face charge of threatening Obama (AP)
• Court rejects challenge to 'don't ask, don't tell' (AP)
• Obama speeds projects to create, save 600,000 jobs (Reuters)
• Obama offers condolences to Gabon (AP)
• US pressing for UN action on NKorea nuclear trade (AP)
• Pentagon: US troops erred in Afghan air strikes (AP)
• Obama to welcome Zimbabwe's prime minister (AP)

AP sources: House Dems favor insurance requirement (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - Senior House Democrats drafting health care legislation are considering slapping an unspecified financial penalty on anyone who refuses to purchase affordable health insurance, a key committee chairman said Monday.

Obama repackages stimulus plans with old promises (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama assured the nation his recovery plan was on track Monday, scrambling to calm Americans unnerved by unemployment rates still persistently rising nearly four months after he signed the biggest economic stimulus in history.

CIA urges judge to keep detainee papers secret (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency's terror interrogations would gravely damage national security.

Court adds uncertainty to Chrysler reorganization (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - Chrysler's five weeks of breakneck-speed bankruptcy proceedings came to a screeching — but possibly temporary — halt Monday, when a Supreme Court justice delayed its sale of assets to Italy's Fiat.

Palin again set to attend GOP dinner (Politico) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 03:10 PM PDT Politico - After a final round of uncertainty, Republican officials say that Sarah Palin will attend Monday night’s fundraiser for the House and Senate campaign committees – but that she isn’t likely to speak.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appears at GOP fundraiser (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 06:13 PM PDT AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared at a Republican congressional fundraiser Monday night, ending a will-she-or-won't-she mystery that overshadowed the event and frustrated the GOP. Palin — the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee who was initially slated to headline the annual Senate-House dinner — left organizers hanging as late as Monday afternoon after she was told she wouldn't have a speaking role at the event.

Flight 1549: The miracle that almost wasn't (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:31 PM PDT AP - Even after Flight 1549 glided to a near-perfect forced landing on the Hudson River in January, the plane and its 155 passengers and crew came within inches of catastrophe when someone cracked open a rear door, sending water gushing into the cabin.

Bill gives FDA controls over tobacco advances (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:07 PM PDT AP - A key Senate vote Monday put Congress in sight of fulfilling a decade-old quest to put the content and marketing of tobacco products under the control of the federal government.

Sotomayor limps to Senate visits on broken ankle (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:04 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hobbled through a packed day of meetings on Capitol Hill Monday after breaking her ankle in an early morning airport stumble, then boarding a flight from New York to Washington to visit senators who will vote on her confirmation.

War funding bill gets sidetracked (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 03:42 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's penchant for last-minute demands, and a rebellion by liberal allies over his efforts to block the release of detainee abuse photos, have combined to sidetrack his bill to pay for an expanded war in Afghanistan as well as continuing military operations in Iraq.

NC man sentenced to prison for threatening Obama (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT AP - A North Carolina man has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for threatening to shoot and kill Barack Obama when he was the Democratic candidate for president.

Providence mayor, union duel over national meeting (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 05:38 PM PDT AP - Providence Mayor David Cicilline said Monday that he would participate in a national mayors conference this week, even as Vice President Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials stay away to avoid a union protest.

Late surge shapes Va. governor race (Politico) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 05:18 PM PDT Politico - Thanks to a late surge of undecided voters in his direction, state Sen. Creigh Deeds appears to have moved ahead of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and former state Del. Brian Moran on the eve of Virginia’s June 9 Democratic primary.

Man ordered to face charge of threatening Obama (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:49 PM PDT AP - A federal judge in Las Vegas ordered a man in federal custody to be transferred to Salt Lake City to face a charge of threatening President Barack Obama.

Court rejects challenge to 'don't ask, don't tell' (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:18 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a legal challenge to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, a decision that allows the Obama administration to continue its slow, back-burner response to liberal activists who want gays to serve openly in the military.

Obama speeds projects to create, save 600,000 jobs (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:11 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Monday accelerated stimulus spending would create or save 600,000 jobs over the next 100 days, pledging action to slow the growth of unemployment that has reached a 25-year high.

Obama offers condolences to Gabon (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is offering condolences to the people of Gabon after their longtime president died.

US pressing for UN action on NKorea nuclear trade (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 03:31 PM PDT AP - At the risk of triggering a military confrontation, the Obama administration is pressing for new U.N. steps aimed at cutting off North Korea's ability to peddle its nuclear wares, including an arrangement to interdict air and sea shipments of nuclear materials and hardware to and from North Korea.

Pentagon: US troops erred in Afghan air strikes (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - The Pentagon said Monday that U.S. troops did not follow proper tactics and procedures during an air assault last month on Taliban fighters that also killed a number of civilians.

Obama to welcome Zimbabwe's prime minister (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2009 03:27 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will welcome the prime minister of Zimbabwe to the White House on Friday.

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