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• Senate approves jobless payments to millions (AP)
• Fired Ag worker mulls job offer after WH apology (AP)
• DOJ: Prosecutor firing was politics, not crime (AP)
• Historic financial overhaul signed to law by Obama (AP)
• House approves drilling safety, clean up bills (AP)
• US to hit NKorea with more sanctions in August (AP)
• GOP Sen. Lugar to support Kagan for Supreme Court (AP)
• Kennedys give $185K to Democratic candidates (AP)
• Top GOP prospect won't seek Byrd's Senate seat (AP)
• Obama to hold forum with African youth in August (AP)
• Obama says he'll sign Tribal Law and Order Act (AP)
• Colo. GOP Senate candidates spar over gender (AP)
• Dems reserve $7 million for vulnerable incumbents (AP)
• Obama to sign Tribal Law and Order Act (AP)
• Conn. Senate dropout reminds voters he's on ballot (AP)
• AP IMPACT: A political filter for info requests (AP)
• Tancredo Seriously Exploring Independent Gubernatorial Bid (CQPolitics.com)
• Many in NY election gave 6 votes to 1 candidate (AP)
• Treasurer accuses GOP chairman of hiding debt (AP)

Senate approves jobless payments to millions (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:48 PM PDT AP - State unemployment agencies are gearing up to resume sending unemployment payments to millions of people as Congress moves to ship President Barack Obama a measure to restore lapsed benefits.

Fired Ag worker mulls job offer after WH apology (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:24 PM PDT AP - The White House did a sudden about-face Wednesday and begged for forgiveness from the black Agriculture Department employee whose ouster ignited an embarrassing political firestorm over race. She was offered a "unique opportunity" for a new job and said she was thinking it over.

DOJ: Prosecutor firing was politics, not crime (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:48 PM PDT AP - The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.

Historic financial overhaul signed to law by Obama (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:24 PM PDT AP - Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression, adding safeguards for millions of consumers and aiming to restrain Wall Street excesses that could set off a new recession.

House approves drilling safety, clean up bills (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:39 PM PDT AP - The House passed legislation Wednesday that promotes new ways to clean up oil spills and aims to make deepwater drilling safer.

US to hit NKorea with more sanctions in August (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:15 PM PDT AP - Tightening the screws on North Korea, the Obama administration said Wednesday it would expand and strengthen sanctions against the isolated regime and its nuclear weapons program, a tactic which in the past has been undercut by North Korea's knack for finding loopholes and escape hatches.

GOP Sen. Lugar to support Kagan for Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 12:35 PM PDT AP - Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, breaking with the GOP on an election-year Supreme Court nomination, on Wednesday became the second in his party to announce he would vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a justice.

Kennedys give $185K to Democratic candidates (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:31 PM PDT AP - Heirs to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy are giving $185,000 from his campaign account and their personal wealth to Democratic House candidates in gratitude to Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her role in enacting a landmark health care law.

Top GOP prospect won't seek Byrd's Senate seat (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - The top GOP prospect for the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's seat said Wednesday she won't run, leaving the state's Democratic governor the clear favorite as his party looks to keep its Senate majority in November.

Obama to hold forum with African youth in August (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:47 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will mark 50 years of independence by 17 sub-Saharan Africa countries at a forum next month in Washington attended by more than 100 young African leaders.

Obama says he'll sign Tribal Law and Order Act (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:18 PM PDT AP - A bill giving American Indian tribes more authority to combat crime on reservations has cleared Congress and is headed to President Barack Obama, who said he looks forward to signing it.

Colo. GOP Senate candidates spar over gender (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - With Colorado's primary just a few weeks away, the Republican Senate contest has turned for the moment into a battle over gender.

Dems reserve $7 million for vulnerable incumbents (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:48 PM PDT AP - House Democrats are setting aside more than $7 million for television advertising to help endangered incumbents, a sign that the party's final march toward November's midterms likely will be spent on defense, according to a plan obtained by The Associated Press.

Obama to sign Tribal Law and Order Act (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he looks forward to signing a bill giving American Indian tribes more authority to address what he calls "unique public safety challenges" on their reservations.

Conn. Senate dropout reminds voters he's on ballot (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons plans to run a campaign ad reminding voters that he's still on the Republican primary ballot in Connecticut's U.S. Senate race, a fresh sign that the campaign dropout may return.

AP IMPACT: A political filter for info requests (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured hundreds of requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.

Tancredo Seriously Exploring Independent Gubernatorial Bid (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 02:07 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - Former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and is known nationally for leading the charge against illegal immigration, is seriously exploring a run for governor of Colorado as an Independent and will announce his intentions soon.

Many in NY election gave 6 votes to 1 candidate (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 01:37 PM PDT AP - An exit survey indicates that nearly a third of the voters in an unusual election in a New York City suburb cast all six of their votes for one candidate.

Treasurer accuses GOP chairman of hiding debt (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 01:05 PM PDT AP - The Republican National Committee's treasurer has accused chairman Michael Steele of hiding more than $7 million in debt to inflate the party's finances and mislead donors.

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