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Midterm elections: Democrats start to fear Senate losses
Time.com – Tue Jul 20, 4:40 am ETThe President faces up to the prospect of his party losing control of Congress in November Full Story »
Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme Court
AP – 2 mins ago- Obama and Cameron hold talks clouded by BP concerns Reuters – 37 mins ago
- Washington Post defends intelligence complex expose The Upshot – Mon Jul 19, 1:36 pm ET
- Clinton unveils $500 million in aid projects for Pakistan McClatchy Newspapers – Mon Jul 19, 5:36 pm ET
- Reid leads Angle in Nevada, but voters don’t like either candidate The Upshot – Mon Jul 19, 2:15 pm ET
- Elizabeth Warren Could Head CFPB Without Senate Confirmation HuffingtonPost.com – Tue Jul 20, 2:36 am ET
- Senate committee clears way for Kagan at Politico – 45 mins ago
- Manchin's in, with nod to Byrd at Politico – Tue Jul 20, 10:33 am ET
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BP stealing thunder from Cameron's US visit
AP – 37 mins ago
AP WASHINGTON - British Prime Minister David Cameron sought to defuse U.S. outrage at British oil giant BP as he met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday. But the issue kept coming up. Full Story »
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Clinton urges review of decision to release Libyan
AP – Tue Jul 20, 1:06 am ET
AFP/File WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has asked the governments of Scotland and Britain to review the decision last summer to release the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie airliner bombing. Full Story »
- Video: Politicians Outraged Over Lockerbie Release CBS 2 New York
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Kyrgyz forces arrest and torture ethnic Uzbeks: U.N.
Reuters – Tue Jul 20, 8:18 am ETGENEVA (Reuters) - Security forces have rounded up ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan and tortured some, pulling out their fingernails and burning them with cigarettes, the United Nations said Tuesday. Full Story »
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Global effort needed on bank capital: U.S. officials
Reuters – 17 mins ago
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global cooperation will be crucial to hardening world banks' capital armor along the lines backed by Congress and the Obama administration, senior U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. Full Story »
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After Bucking Trends, He Hopes to Spark One
CQPolitics.com – Mon Jul 19, 11:21 pm ETRepublican strategist Mike Shields survived back-to-back Democratic waves in 2006 and 2008 and lived to tell about it. This year, he's on the front lines of the Republican effort to take back the House majority. Full Story »
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Senate likely to break deadlock on jobless benefits
McClatchy Newspapers – Mon Jul 19, 12:24 pm ETWASHINGTON — The Senate is expected Tuesday to break its deadlock over extending jobless benefits to millions of people when it votes on whether to end a lengthy standoff over how to pay for the program. Full Story »
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In Some Races, Cash Wall May Be Too High
CQPolitics.com – Mon Jul 19, 11:21 pm ETYes, Robert Gibbs -- and everybody else -- there certainly are enough House seats in play this year to flip the chamber from Democratic control to the Republicans in November. Full Story »
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Put "America back to work" says unlikely U.S Senate candidate
McClatchy Newspapers – Sun Jul 18, 7:41 pm ETMANNING, SC — Unlikely U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene introduced himself to a worldwide audience as well as curious neighbors Sunday as he laid out his platform in an eight-minute speech that alternated between forceful and awkward. Full Story »
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AP-Univision Poll: US Hispanics mix hopes, strains
AP – 43 mins agoHispanics 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. Full Story »
Palin sparks Twitter fight on mosque
Politico – Sun Jul 18, 9:00 pm ETSarah Palin, who waded into a New York political fight by endorsing Ann Marie Buerkle in NY-25, is drifting into a decidedly higher-charged battle: The fray over a planned mosque near Ground Zero. Full Story »
US to boost training, aid for troops in Somalia
AP – 30 mins agoThe U.S. military is looking for ways to expand the training and equipping of African forces to help battle al-Shabab militants in Somalia who claimed responsibility for recent bombings in Uganda, a top commander said Tuesday. Full Story »
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