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Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:38:35 GMT
AP - Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday laid the groundwork to take on a larger, national role after leaving state government, citing a "higher calling" with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines.
Obama's trip: A mission to reshape US image
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:30:16 GMT
AP - Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father's birthplace.
Analysis: Palin's resignation raises questions
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:20:38 GMT
AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's abrupt and unscripted holiday resignation is an odd way to launch a potential presidential bid and no help for a party battered by scandal and fighting for relevancy.
Palin fires back at press on Facebook
(Politico)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:42:26 GMT
Politico - In the Facebook posting, the governor indicated that she plans to continue to play a role national politics.
Ghana, but not forgotten
(Politico)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:38:08 GMT
Politico - Obama would draw huge crowds on his ancestors' continent, but won't give a speech in Ghana next week.
Colin Powell cautions Obama on big government
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:35:35 GMT
AP - Colin Powell worries that President Barack Obama is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time and he offers this advice: take a hard look at costs and consider the additional red tape that will be created.
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Archives' record-keeping lapse
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:57:18 GMT
AP - National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
60 votes not so super for Obama, Senate Democrats
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:11:25 GMT
AP - Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.
MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Rising debt may be next crisis
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:36:43 GMT
AP - The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It's the national debt.
Group Sotomayor advised fought job tests
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:57:56 GMT
AP - A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.
Education secretary challenges NEA on teacher pay
(AP)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:48:30 GMT
AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan challenged members of the National Education Association Thursday to stop resisting the idea of linking teacher pay to student achievement.
British PM's wife joins 1000s at gay pride parade
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:49:08 GMT
AP - The wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined thousands of revelers in London's annual gay pride march.
Pope urges G8 leaders to act on crisis
(AP)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:34:52 GMT
AP - Pope Benedict XVI has urged G-8 leaders meeting in Italy next week to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's poor from the effects of the economic downturn, the Vatican said Saturday.
Obama says supports Kremlin chief on more freedoms
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:12:56 GMT
Reuters - President Barack Obama has used an interview with a Russian opposition newspaper to support Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev's publicly declared aim of building a freer society in Russia.
Did hacker threaten Sanford and lover over affair?
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:24:00 GMT
McClatchy Newspapers - RIO DE JANEIRO A television anchor who's the only journalist known to have spoken with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's Argentine lover since news of their affair broke last week said the couple received an e-mail threat from the person who hacked into her Hotmail account.
Both Parties Try to Cash In on Passage of Climate Change Bill
(CQPolitics.com)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:39:19 GMT
CQPolitics.com - Within hours of House passage June 26 of sweeping energy legislation, the party fund-raising letters were already going out.
Palin Stirs Debate About Her Political Future With Resignation
(Bloomberg)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT
Bloomberg - July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Sarah Palinâs abrupt announcement
that she was resigning as Alaskaâs governor left observers
speculating about a future for her that could range from a 2012
White House bid to political oblivion.
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