Daily News Alert | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:03 AM PDT |
AP sources: Senate group omits employer mandate
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:11 pm PDT
 AP - After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer Monday to a health care compromise that omits two key Democratic priorities but incorporates provisions to slow the explosive rise in medical costs, officials said. Full Story | Top |
APNewsBreak: AP sources: 4 big cities, no COPS aid
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:22 pm PDT
AP - Four major cities — New York, Seattle, Houston, and Pittsburgh — will get no money from a $1 billion economic stimulus program to help cities avoid laying off police officers, officials told The Associated Press on Monday. Full Story | Top |
7 NC men charged with plotting 'violent jihad'
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:01 pm PDT
 AP - A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said Monday. Full Story | Top |
US turns off electronic billboard in Havana
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:11 pm PDT
 AP - The Obama administration has turned off an electronic sign at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana that had displayed pro-democracy and human rights messages to Cuban passers-by and riled the government for the past three years. Full Story | Top |
Audit finds contractor oversight improving in Iraq
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:01 pm PDT
AP - The government has kept a closer eye on U.S. contractors in Iraq since a deadly 2007 shooting by Blackwater guards, but it still needs to do a better job tracking and investigating when private security guards fire their guns, two new Pentagon audits have found. Full Story | Top |
AP INVESTIGATION: Main Street's soaring sour loans
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:01 pm PDT
 AP - As the effects of the economic collapse began pouring down Main Street, the government last year was left holding a record $2.1 billion in write-offs of small business loans it had guaranteed. Officials expect the number of defaults to rise as the nation continues to climb out of the recession. Full Story | Top |
Obama supports US World Cup effort
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:29 pm PDT
AP - President Barack Obama on Monday lobbied the head of international soccer on the United States' bid to host the World Cup and said he hoped to attend the upcoming contest in South Africa. Full Story | Top |
Hawaii again declares Obama birth certificate real
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:54 pm PDT
AP - State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president. Full Story | Top |
Kentucky's Sen. Bunning won't seek re-election in 2010
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:54 pm PDT
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON _ Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning announced Monday that he's ending his bid for a third term, bringing to a close a multimonth-long saga that pitted the 77-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher against a Republican leadership that sent strong signals that he should step aside for the good of the party. Full Story | Top |
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