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• Too much salt: Report urges FDA to force rollback (AP)
• Gates: Sensitive export list outdated, ineffective (AP)
• Court voids law aimed at animal cruelty videos (AP)
• Senators call for scrapping 'virtual fence' (AP)
• Perot: Time will show tea party effect on country (AP)
• Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98 (AP)
• Justice Stevens turns 90; only Holmes was older (AP)
• AP source: Obama talking to possible court picks (AP)
• Dems' committees have $21M cash advantage over GOP (AP)
• IMF says banks should pay for future bailouts (AP)
• House abandons vote bill for US capital. (AP)
• Obama starts talks with possible high court picks (Reuters)
• White House: Obama to return to Calif. for Boxer (AP)
• Whitman to get campaign boost from Romney, McCain (AP)
• AP source: Pirate suspects to be prosecuted in US (AP)
• Fla. gov has many political options; none are good (AP)
• New bank tax picks up support in Congress (AP)
• Possible GOP tide drawing has-beens into campaigns (AP)
• Biden vows to stop 'cynical' foes derailing finance reform (AFP)

Too much salt: Report urges FDA to force rollback (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - Too much salt is hidden in Americans' food, and regulators plan to work with manufacturers to cut back — but the government isn't ready to go along with a major new recommendation that it order a decrease.

Gates: Sensitive export list outdated, ineffective (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:48 PM PDT AP - The government will update a Cold War-era rule book that decides which U.S. technologies and widgets may be sold abroad, revamping a system criticized as too strict and one that doesn't always keep sensitive technology out of enemy hands, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

Court voids law aimed at animal cruelty videos (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:30 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court, with only one dissenting vote, on Tuesday struck down a federal ban on videos that show graphic violence against animals. The ruling cheered free speech advocates, but it raised concerns that more animals will be harmed.

Senators call for scrapping 'virtual fence' (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - Two senators said Tuesday it's time to consider ending a contract for a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, contending it doesn't stop illegal immigration.

Perot: Time will show tea party effect on country (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 06:02 PM PDT AP - Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot says the national tea party movement seems to be well organized but that time will tell how it will effect the country, government and November elections.

Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98 (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - Dorothy Irene Height, a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose activism stretched from the New Deal to the election of President Barack Obama, died Tuesday. She was 98.

Justice Stevens turns 90; only Holmes was older (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama congratulated John Paul Stevens on his 90th birthday Tuesday, hailing the Supreme Court justice's decades-long career for leaving "an undeniable imprint on our country's jurisprudence."

AP source: Obama talking to possible court picks (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has begun conversations with potential Supreme Court nominees, a senior administration official said Tuesday, signaling an upswing in the president's consideration of an already coalescing list of candidates.

Dems' committees have $21M cash advantage over GOP (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:09 PM PDT AP - Democrats' campaign committees on Tuesday posted more than a $21 million in-the-bank advantage over their Republican counterparts.

IMF says banks should pay for future bailouts (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - The International Monetary Fund is recommending that banks and other financial institutions pay fees to cover the cost of any future government bailouts.

House abandons vote bill for US capital. (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:54 PM PDT AP - The people of the nation's capital have waited more than two centuries to get a vote in Congress, and now it looks like Washington's roughly 600,000 residents will have to wait even longer.

Obama starts talks with possible high court picks (Reuters) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:29 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama has begun conversations with potential candidates to be his next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, a White House official said on Tuesday, a day before meeting with senators as he seeks support in making his pick.

White House: Obama to return to Calif. for Boxer (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT AP - A White House official says President Barack Obama will return to California next month to help raise money for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and other candidates.

Whitman to get campaign boost from Romney, McCain (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - Several Republican heavyweights will join gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman in California for a series of campaign fundraisers.

AP source: Pirate suspects to be prosecuted in US (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:39 PM PDT AP - At least five pirate suspects are being brought to the United States for prosecution, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.

Fla. gov has many political options; none are good (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:21 PM PDT AP - Plan A isn't working so well for Gov. Charlie Crist, a former rising Republican star who now trails badly in the Florida Senate primary, but Plans B, C and D don't look much better.

New bank tax picks up support in Congress (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:52 PM PDT AP - A new tax on large banks is picking up support in Congress as Democrats target financial institutions that benefited from the Wall Street bailout to help pay for their jobs program and other election-year initiatives.

Possible GOP tide drawing has-beens into campaigns (AP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 12:43 PM PDT AP - Republicans once saddled with the burden of President George W. Bush's unpopularity are now experiencing a boon from another struggling president: Barack Obama.

Biden vows to stop 'cynical' foes derailing finance reform (AFP) Posted: 20 Apr 2010 11:35 AM PDT AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden warned Tuesday the Obama administration would not let "powerful," "cynical" foes block its financial reform plan, including the regulation of "shadowy" derivatives.

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