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• No smoking: Historic vote could bring new limits (AP)
• Obama confronts critics on health care overhaul (AP)
• Deal provides $534M in stop-loss bonuses (AP)
• AP source: NKorea may be prepping new nuclear test (AP)
• Feds pressured BofA CEO (Politico)
• No. 2 House Republican compares Obama to Putin (AP)
• War-funding bill back on track for passage (AP)
• House ethics panel reviewing campaign money (AP)
• Sotomayor's stance on gun rights prompts questions (AP)
• Marines will come out of Iraq by spring 2010 (AP)
• Obama aide who quit after plane flap gets new job (AP)
• Obama aides traveled with freed Gitmo detainees (AP)
• Wright says 'Jews' keeping him from Obama (AP)
• Bermuda takes 4 Uighur detainees from Gitmo (AP)
• Lawmakers want federal rules to cover home workers (AP)
• New estimate trims Obama plan to increase taxes (AP)
• McCain urges Obama to classify detainee photos (Reuters)
• US moving to appeal Bagram detention ruling (AP)
• Ahmadinejad faces election challenge from moderate (Reuters)
• Obama girls, with mom and grandmother, back home (AP)

No smoking: Historic vote could bring new limits (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:53 PM PDT AP - The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit nicotine in the cigarettes that kill nearly a half-million people a year, to drastically curtail ads that glorify tobacco and to ban flavored products aimed at spreading the habit to young people.

Obama confronts critics on health care overhaul (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:37 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama challenged Republican critics Thursday to offer alternative plans for overhauling U.S. health care, declaring he's "happy to steal people's ideas" but that doing nothing about out-of-reach costs and uninsured Americans is not an option.

Deal provides $534M in stop-loss bonuses (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:54 PM PDT AP - The House and Senate have worked out a compromise to give a $500 retroactive bonus to soldiers for every month they were forced to stay in the military beyond their enlistment term since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

AP source: NKorea may be prepping new nuclear test (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT AP - North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test, a show of defiance as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May, according to a U.S. government official.

Feds pressured BofA CEO (Politico) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 11:09 AM PDT Politico - A House chairman is calling on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to testify about whether government regulators used excessive force to push through Bank of America's “shotgun wedding” to Merrill Lynch last fall.

No. 2 House Republican compares Obama to Putin (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 05:04 PM PDT AP - The No. 2 Republican in the House on Thursday compared President Barack Obama's plans for the auto industry to the policies of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, saying the White House has stripped credit holders of rights and given them to Democratic allies.

War-funding bill back on track for passage (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - Briefly held up in a battle over detainee abuse photos, a crucial war-funding bill appeared back on track for passage Thursday evening, coincidentally aided by a federal appeals court in New York.

House ethics panel reviewing campaign money (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:47 PM PDT AP - Lawmakers who steer money and contracts to favored companies and receive campaign contributions in return could face a House ethics committee investigation.

Sotomayor's stance on gun rights prompts questions (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told a senator Thursday that she would follow a historic ruling affirming Americans' right to own guns for self-defense, but pro-gun activists said they still believe she'd work to limit gun rights if confirmed for the high court.

Marines will come out of Iraq by spring 2010 (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - All but a few dozen of the 16,000 Marines now in Iraq will be out by next spring, the Marine Corps commandant said Thursday, putting a solid end date on a long-anticipated exit. Gen. James T. Conway said his Marine commanders are already moving equipment out of Anbar Province, where his forces have largely been concentrated. But the larger exodus will begin shortly after the Iraqi elections.

Obama aide who quit after plane flap gets new job (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:57 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's former aide Louis Caldera, who resigned after authorizing a costly and frightening Air Force One photo-op over New York City, is flying higher today.

Obama aides traveled with freed Gitmo detainees (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT AP - Senior aides to President Barack Obama accompanied four Chinese Muslims and their lawyers on a flight from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Bermuda.

Wright says 'Jews' keeping him from Obama (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:17 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, blamed "them Jews" in an interview this week for keeping him from speaking to the president, but later apologized.

Bermuda takes 4 Uighur detainees from Gitmo (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - Four Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay prison were freed Thursday and resettled in Bermuda, sparking complaints from China and Britain even as the Obama administration tried to iron out details for sending more detainees to the Pacific island of Palau.

Lawmakers want federal rules to cover home workers (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:58 PM PDT AP - A group of Democratic senators on Thursday urged the Labor Department to reverse a Bush administration policy by extending federal wage and hour laws to home health care workers.

New estimate trims Obama plan to increase taxes (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:51 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's efforts to increase taxes on multinational corporations took a hit Thursday when a new congressional estimate showed his plan would raise only three-fourths of the money the administration projected.

McCain urges Obama to classify detainee photos (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:43 PM PDT Reuters - Republican Senator John McCain and three allies urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to classify photographs said to depict the abuse of terrorism suspects to ensure they do not become public.

US moving to appeal Bagram detention ruling (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:24 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is moving to appeal a ruling that some detainees at a military air base in Afghanistan can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention.

Ahmadinejad faces election challenge from moderate (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:16 PM PDT Reuters - Iranians vote on Friday in a presidential election which pits hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against a former prime minister who sharply criticizes his economic record and seeks detente with the West.

Obama girls, with mom and grandmother, back home (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 03:13 PM PDT AP - The rest of the First Family is home after some fun in Europe.

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