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• Kagan's e-mails to go public as hearings approach (AP)
• Obama watches White Sox take on Nats pitching star (AP)
• Gulf oil leak video could haunt Obama (AP)
• BP: More claims paid than what House data shows (AP)
• As oil flows, can Obama reverse field? (Politico)
• Napolitano: US must balance liberties, security (AP)
• Gulf skeptical of Obama's part-time recovery chief (AP)
• Senate fails to spare doctors from Medicare cuts (AP)
• Cleanup aid from overseas comes with a price tag (AP)
• Veteran politician plays the outsider in NC race (AP)
• Obama sends birthday wishes to Aung San Suu Kyi (AP)
• Gallup poll shows country divided on prospect of Obama's re-election (The Newsroom)
• Vote system that elected NY Hispanic could expand (AP)
• Why Wall Street's generous to New Democrats in House (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Pa. ex-lawmaker gets 6 to 14 years for corruption (AP)
• US Senate candidate Rubio faces Fla. foreclosure (AP)
• Obama tells G-20 nations to seal economic recovery (AP)
• Fiorina's former company benefits from stimulus (AP)
• Obama launches push to refocus on economy and jobs (Reuters)
• Obama cites Ohio construction jobs from stimulus (AP)

Kagan's e-mails to go public as hearings approach (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - As a Clinton White House aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan called herself one of the Clinton administration's biggest fans of a law to protect religious freedom but warned then-Vice President Al Gore against endorsing it for fear of creating "a gay/lesbian firestorm."

Obama watches White Sox take on Nats pitching star (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama ventured from the White House for some Friday night baseball as his hometown Chicago White Sox took on the Washington Nationals and their new star pitcher, Stephen Strasburg.

Gulf oil leak video could haunt Obama (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:09 PM PDT AP - Will the Gulf oil leak cam engulf President Barack Obama? It's nearly impossible to avoid the live video of the coal-gray oil gushing from BP's well a mile below the Gulf of Mexico's surface. According to an Associated Press-GfK Poll this week, 88 percent of the public has viewed it — a picture so sharp that it's tantalizingly easy to wonder why someone doesn't just stuff a rag into the ruptured pipe.

BP: More claims paid than what House data shows (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:22 PM PDT AP - BP says it has paid a higher percentage of claims to those harmed by the Gulf spill than was indicated by data from the House Judiciary Committee.

As oil flows, can Obama reverse field? (Politico) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:31 AM PDT Politico - He’s done this before.

Napolitano: US must balance liberties, security (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:17 PM PDT AP - Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation's homeland security chief said Friday.

Gulf skeptical of Obama's part-time recovery chief (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:01 PM PDT AP - Gulf Coast environmentalists and business owners are skeptical of President Barack Obama's plan to have his point man for recovery perform his job part-time. And they're worried the cleanup will become mired in bureaucratic deliberations.

Senate fails to spare doctors from Medicare cuts (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - After a week of partisan wrangling, the Senate on Friday passed legislation to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments looming for months. But the last-ditch effort came too late.

Cleanup aid from overseas comes with a price tag (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:18 PM PDT AP - At least 22 nations — including Britain, where BP is based — have offered oil-collecting skimmers, boom, technical experts and more to help the U.S. cope with its worst-ever environmental disaster. But their generosity comes with a price tag.

Veteran politician plays the outsider in NC race (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:41 PM PDT AP - North Carolina's four-term secretary of state seems an unlikely U.S. Senate candidate to wear the mantle of reformer bent on shaking up the status quo. Elaine Marshall is a former state senator and party stalwart who is 28 years older than her fresh-faced Democratic primary opponent.

Obama sends birthday wishes to Aung San Suu Kyi (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:27 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is sending birthday wishes to Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee), the democracy activist long held in detention by Myanmar's military rulers.

Gallup poll shows country divided on prospect of Obama's re-election (The Newsroom) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:05 PM PDT The Newsroom - White House officials have made no secret of plans to position President Obama for re-election in 2012. Here's why: A new Gallup poll finds Americans virtually split over whether Obama should win re-election. According to the poll, 51 percent of the registered voters surveyed say no, 46 percent say yes and 3 percent don't know.

Vote system that elected NY Hispanic could expand (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT AP - The court-ordered election that allowed residents of one New York town to flip the lever six times for one candidate — and produced a Hispanic winner — could expand to other towns where minorities complain their voices aren't being heard.

Why Wall Street's generous to New Democrats in House (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:09 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Members of the powerful New Democrat Coalition in the House of Representatives are among the top Democratic recipients of Wall Street campaign money this election cycle — and also among the most vocal advocates for weakening a plan to regulate complex financial instruments called "derivatives" that helped fuel the near-collapse of the economy in 2008.

Pa. ex-lawmaker gets 6 to 14 years for corruption (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:14 PM PDT AP - Mike Veon, once an influential power broker in the Pennsylvania Legislature, was sentenced to at least six years in prison Friday for his role in a scheme that used taxpayer resources for election campaigns and paid bonuses to state employees who helped Democrats win control of the House of Representatives four years ago.

US Senate candidate Rubio faces Fla. foreclosure (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:36 PM PDT AP - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio and another Miami politician are facing foreclosure on a Tallahassee home they co-own for failing to make mortgage payments since January, Leon County court records show.

Obama tells G-20 nations to seal economic recovery (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is appealing to the world's major economies not to waver in their efforts to support a sustained rebound from the near collapse of the global economic system in the fall of 2008.

Fiorina's former company benefits from stimulus (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:44 PM PDT AP - Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is kicking off her general election campaign against Democrat Barbara Boxer by criticizing the $862 billion federal stimulus package as doing little for private businesses.

Obama launches push to refocus on economy and jobs (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:20 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama launched a push on Friday ahead of congressional elections to refocus on economic recovery efforts that have been overshadowed by the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama cites Ohio construction jobs from stimulus (AP) Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:09 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama focused attention Friday on construction jobs created by the federal stimulus law while acknowledging the grinding toll the slow-to-rebound economy has taken.

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