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• Obama, British PM: Bomber release not BP's doing (AP)
• USDA worker pressured to resign over race comments (AP)
• Obama thanks senators for moving unemployment bill (AP)
• Countrywide VIP loans reached deep into Fannie Mae (AP)
• Jobless benefits clear Senate hurdle by one vote (AP)
• Intelligence director nominee faces a grilling (AP)
• Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme Court (AP)
• Tough GOP fight in Ga. for open governor's seat (AP)
• AP-Univision Poll: US Hispanics mix hopes, strains (AP)
• Thurmond wins Dem. primary in Ga. Senate race (AP)
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• Goodwin joins Senate caucus of short-termers (AP)
• W.Va. gov, a popular Dem, to go for US Senate seat (AP)
• Fed workers to be urged to commute, travel less (AP)
• Congressional delegate election threatened (AP)
• Obama to campaign in Texas (AP)
• GOP candidate for NY gov calls for mosque inquiry (AP)
• US envoy: Diplomatic presence in Iraq will shrink (AP)
• Bush Interior chiefs: No one expected major spill (AP)

Obama, British PM: Bomber release not BP's doing (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday turned aside U.S. calls for an investigation into the release of the Lockerbie bomber by Scotland and said there was no indication that oil giant BP had swayed the controversial decision.

USDA worker pressured to resign over race comments (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:58 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is standing by its quick decision to oust a black Agriculture Department employee over racially tinged remarks at an NAACP banquet in Georgia, despite evidence that her remarks were misconstrued and growing calls for USDA to reconsider.

Obama thanks senators for moving unemployment bill (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is thanking senators for acting to restore unemployment benefits to 2.5 million people who began losing their checks weeks ago.

Countrywide VIP loans reached deep into Fannie Mae (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:44 PM PDT AP - The former Countrywide Financial Corp. gave preferential loans to more than three dozen employees of Fannie Mae while the two giant housing enterprises were locked in an expanding, multi-billion dollar business relationship in subprime mortgages, documents show.

Jobless benefits clear Senate hurdle by one vote (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - Senate Democrats broke through a stubborn Republican filibuster Tuesday and pressed to restart jobless benefits for 2 1/2 million Americans still unable to find work in the frail national economic recovery. The Democrats were victorious by the single vote of a new senator sworn in only moments earlier.

Intelligence director nominee faces a grilling (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:17 PM PDT AP - Pledging to increase trust with Congress, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper said Tuesday he would be candid with lawmakers if confirmed as the next director of national intelligence.

Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - Pushing toward an election-year Supreme Court confirmation vote, a polarized Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved Elena Kagan to be the fourth female justice. Just one Republican joined Democrats to approve Kagan's nomination and send it to the full Senate, where she's expected to win confirmation within weeks.

Tough GOP fight in Ga. for open governor's seat (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:52 PM PDT AP - Dueling endorsements from Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich were key factors as voters sought to decide a crowded Republican primary for Georgia governor Tuesday.

AP-Univision Poll: US Hispanics mix hopes, strains (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:58 PM PDT AP - Hispanics are eager to blend into American society while still maintaining their cultural identity, a paradox that reflects the complex beliefs of the nation's fastest-growing minority. Yet there are limits to assimilation — most don't expect the United States to elect a Latino president in the next 20 years.

Thurmond wins Dem. primary in Ga. Senate race (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:50 PM PDT AP - Georgia's labor commissioner has defeated a little-known opponent to win the state's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

(AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:41 PM PDT AP - Democrat Michael Thurmond wins right to challenge Georgia GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson.

Goodwin joins Senate caucus of short-termers (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - West Virginia Democrat Carte Goodwin replaced the Senate's oldest member as its youngest Tuesday, becoming part of a small caucus of freshman seat-warmers with little seniority but outsized power in the closely divided chamber.

W.Va. gov, a popular Dem, to go for US Senate seat (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Gov. Joe Manchin, a centrist and popular Democrat known for his calm, compassionate handling of a coal mine disaster that killed 29 in April, declared Tuesday that he will run for the late Robert C. Byrd's U.S. Senate seat.

Fed workers to be urged to commute, travel less (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:41 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama wants federal workers to cut down on business travel and commuting by car as he seeks to reduce heat-trapping emissions produced by the federal government.

Congressional delegate election threatened (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:30 PM PDT AP - There is no budget for the financially troubled Northern Mariana Islands to elect the U.S. commonwealth's delegate to Congress this year.

Obama to campaign in Texas (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama plans fundraisers for fellow Democrats in Republican-controlled Texas, but his party's nominee for governor said Tuesday he would not join the event scheduled in the city that he used to run.

GOP candidate for NY gov calls for mosque inquiry (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:16 PM PDT AP - One of the Republican candidates for governor of New York says Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, is playing to his liberal voter base by refusing to open an inquiry into plans to build a mosque near ground zero.

US envoy: Diplomatic presence in Iraq will shrink (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - The State Department is telling Congress that it intends to phase out a network of embassy branch offices in Iraq as soon as three years after the U.S. military leaves in 2011.

Bush Interior chiefs: No one expected major spill (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:11 PM PDT AP - Two former Interior secretaries told Congress Tuesday they did not anticipate an accident as large as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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