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• Whitman denies she knew housekeeper was illegal (AP)
• Father and son go on trial in Ore. bank bombing (AP)
• Congress funding fight may delay Wall Street reforms (Reuters)
• Democratic senator blocks Obama budget chief pick (Reuters)
• Education claims at issue in Del. Senate race (AP)
• Boxer, Fiorina clash over health care, immigration (AP)
• In Alaska Senate race, ad aims at 'Princess Lisa' (AP)
• Obama taps NY lawyer for DC circuit (AP)
• UN says Afghan election a positive sign (AP)
• La. Dem's ad seeks to revive Vitter scandals (AP)
• SD GOP Sen. Thune looking at 2012 presidential run (AP)
• Obama confronts ebbing hopes in Iowa return (AFP)
• Obama backs Jon Stewart's sanity rally on Oct. 30 (AP)
• AP Interview: Miller: Past benefits irrelevant (AP)
• Maine gov. candidate: I'd tell Obama to go to hell (AP)
• Poll: Murkowski and Miller are dead even in Alaska (The Upshot)
• Felled by tea party, senator wages a comeback (AP)
• Republicans Bachmann, King, and Goodlatte lead charge against alleged fraud in settlement with black farmers (Daily Caller)
• Obama faces voter policy doubts in backyard meeting (Reuters)
• In Obama's backyard visits, GOP is the absent foe (AP)

Whitman denies she knew housekeeper was illegal (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:45 PM PDT AP - California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant Mexican housekeeper for years even though the federal government alerted her in 2003 to the maid's dubious legal status, the worker and her attorney claimed Wednesday.

Father and son go on trial in Ore. bank bombing (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:34 PM PDT AP - Fears that newly elected President Barack Obama would curb gun owners' rights served as the catalyst for a father and son to plant a bomb at a bank that killed two police officers and maimed a third, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Congress funding fight may delay Wall Street reforms (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:27 PM PDT Reuters - The Obama administration may have to wait several months to implement parts of the landmark Dodd-Frank financial reform law because Congress has yet to approve funds necessary for its implementation.

Democratic senator blocks Obama budget chief pick (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:24 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama's pick for budget chief has been blocked in the U.S. Senate by a member of his own party to protest the administration's ban on offshore oil drilling.

Education claims at issue in Del. Senate race (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:12 PM PDT AP - GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who said for years she had graduated from a New Jersey university when she had not, tried to distance herself Wednesday from a profile on an online networking site that indicates she attended Oxford University.

Boxer, Fiorina clash over health care, immigration (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT AP - Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and GOP challenger Carly Fiorina displayed sharp differences in their second debate Wednesday over a wide range of issues, particularly Republicans' call to repeal national health care reforms.

In Alaska Senate race, ad aims at 'Princess Lisa' (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - A conservative nonprofit group is running radio ads in Alaska portraying U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski as a spoiled princess trying to hold onto a seat her father gave her.

Obama taps NY lawyer for DC circuit (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated the general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney's office to a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

UN says Afghan election a positive sign (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - Afghanistan's ability to even hold recent legislative elections shows it is starting to take control of its own future, a U.N. special envoy said Wednesday as Security Council members took stock of the war-ravaged country's most recent attempt at democracy.

La. Dem's ad seeks to revive Vitter scandals (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - The Democratic challenger in Louisiana's Senate race is airing a documentary-style television ad detailing the prostitution scandal that sent GOP Sen. David Vitter scurrying from public view in 2007.

SD GOP Sen. Thune looking at 2012 presidential run (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:48 PM PDT AP - Republican Sen. John Thune, who has spent the summer traversing the country, talking policy and raising millions of dollars for a re-election bid that has no opponent, acknowledged Wednesday that he's considered running for president in 2012.

Obama confronts ebbing hopes in Iowa return (AFP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:36 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama came face to face with the ebbing hope of recession-weary Americans Wednesday, in a tough return to the state which nurtured his White House campaign.

Obama backs Jon Stewart's sanity rally on Oct. 30 (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:27 PM PDT AP - "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart has won some high-level backing for his "Rally to Restore Sanity" next month in Washington: President Barack Obama.

AP Interview: Miller: Past benefits irrelevant (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:21 PM PDT AP - Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller believes recent reports that he and his family have received government benefits are "pretty darn irrelevant" to the race.

Maine gov. candidate: I'd tell Obama to go to hell (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage told a group of fishermen at a GOP forum that he won't be afraid to tell President Barack Obama to "go to hell."

Poll: Murkowski and Miller are dead even in Alaska (The Upshot) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:57 PM PDT The Upshot - A new poll finds Joe Miller and Lisa Murkoswki virtually tied in Alaska's Senate race. According to a new CNN/Time survey, Miller narrowly leads the incumbent senator by just two points, 38 percent to 36 percent, among likely Alaska voters. Democrat Scott McAdams, the mayor of Sitka, runs a distant third, garnering just 22 percent. [...]

Felled by tea party, senator wages a comeback (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:52 PM PDT AP - Against a string of tea party victories, the establishment is fighting back. Its personification is Lisa Murkowski, a U.S. senator by means of her father's appointment and one unwilling to fade into Alaska's political wilderness after losing to a candidate backed by Sarah Palin and tea party activists.

Republicans Bachmann, King, and Goodlatte lead charge against alleged fraud in settlement with black farmers (Daily Caller) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:45 PM PDT Daily Caller - Three Republican congressmen are calling on the Obama administration to launch an investigation into allegations of widespread fraud into a long fought farmer discrimination suit known as Pigford vs. Glickman.

Obama faces voter policy doubts in backyard meeting (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:31 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama defended his economic policies on Wednesday in the face of tough questions from skeptical Americans less than five weeks before congressional elections that threaten his fellow Democrats' grip on Congress.

In Obama's backyard visits, GOP is the absent foe (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:25 PM PDT AP - A priest expressed concern to President Barack Obama about an unemployed parishioner. A businessman criticized Obama's tax policy. A woman said her son and his friends, once inspired by Obama, "are losing their hope."

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