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Today's Politics News: Obama adviser not ready to back a second stimulus White House open to new tax on health benefits Analysis: Obama scores major, much-needed victory GOP leader says time needed for Sotomayor records Republicans eyed for 2012 weigh Sanford fallout GOP urges more spending restraint in programs NTSB probes 2 incidents involving Airbus A330s Roberts: Supreme Court not setting school rules Analysis: US keeps Asian base key to Afghan war More clashes in Russia's North Caucasus kill 5 73-year-old Scottish man dies of swine flu The Honduran Coup: How Should the U.S. Respond? Facing competition, West Coast ports lobby for improved rail links Political Economy: Alphabet Stew Climate-Change Bill Clears U.S. House, Sent to Senate Obama adviser not ready to back a second stimulus Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:05 pm PDT AP - A senior White House adviser said Sunday the economic stimulus has not yet "broken the back of the recession" but set aside calls for a second massive spending bill. Republicans, meanwhile, called spending under way a failure. Full Story Top White House open to new tax on health benefits Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:32 pm PDT AP - The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to support his health care overhaul agenda. Full Story Top Analysis: Obama scores major, much-needed victory Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:43 pm PDT AP - Facing a rare defeat, President Barack Obama put a big dose of political capital on the line and scored a major victory just when he needed one. Full Story Top GOP leader says time needed for Sotomayor records Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:20 pm PDT AP - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate Judiciary Committee needs more time to review records in connection with Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination. Full Story Top Republicans eyed for 2012 weigh Sanford fallout Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:31 pm PDT AP - A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image. Full Story Top GOP urges more spending restraint in programs Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:46 pm PDT AP - Republicans concerned about the Obama administration's big spending on economic stimulus, energy and health care are asking, "Where are the jobs?" Full Story Top NTSB probes 2 incidents involving Airbus A330s Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:27 pm PDT AP - Federal safety officials said Thursday they are investigating two incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 planes may have malfunctioned, including one that took place ten days before the same type of plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 aboard. Full Story Top Roberts: Supreme Court not setting school rules Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:46 am PDT AP - Don't look to the Supreme Court to set school rules, only to clarify them when officials have abdicated that responsibility, Chief Justice John Roberts said Saturday. Full Story Top Analysis: US keeps Asian base key to Afghan war Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:53 pm PDT AP - Sometimes, paying three times the price for the same merchandise can be a good deal. That's the American calculation behind quiet negotiations that will allow the United States to hang onto a Central Asian air base crucial to the expanding war in Afghanistan. Full Story Top More clashes in Russia's North Caucasus kill 5 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:13 am PDT AP - A Chechen terrorist group with ties to the late warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack on a North Caucasus regional leader that killed three, according to a statement posted on a rebel-linked Web site Sunday. Full Story Top 73-year-old Scottish man dies of swine flu Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:59 am PDT AP - Health officials in Scotland say a 73-year-old man infected with swine flu has died at a hospital outside Glasgow. Full Story Top The Honduran Coup: How Should the U.S. Respond? Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:25 pm PDT Time.com - It would be tempting for Washington to dismiss Sunday morning's military overthrow of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as just a minor banana-republic convulsion. But the Obama Administration doesn't have that luxury Full Story Top Facing competition, West Coast ports lobby for improved rail links Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:00 am PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON _ Struggling to ride out the recession, West Coast ports face new competition as ports in Canada and Mexico, an expanded Panama Canal and even the Suez Canal could steal away some of the cross-Pacific shipping they've relied on. Full Story Top Political Economy: Alphabet Stew Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:33 am PDT CQPolitics.com - The word among some economists is that this recession may turn out to be a "W." But before people start cheering and breaking out the champagne, they should understand that this wouldn't be a good thing. Full Story Top Climate-Change Bill Clears U.S. House, Sent to Senate Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:20 am PDT Bloomberg - June 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House narrowly passed legislation to impose the nation’s first limits on greenhouse- gas emissions linked to global warming, handing President Barack Obama a win on one of his top policy priorities. Full Story Top

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