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Today's Politics News: Obama budget: Record spending, record deficit AP sources: Officials to study lifting ban on gays Obama budget would impose host of tax increases Reid to McCain: 2008 'is over' Hill, critics eye CIA moonlighting If health care dies, Obama's modest budget Plan B Obama seeks $192B as war steps up in Afghanistan Republican, Democrat hopefuls target Obama Senate seat Grand jury indicts father of man in terror plot Rendition victim appeals to US Supreme Court US military deaths in Afghan region at 893 US, EU put into effect legal cooperation, extradition agreements U.N.'s Ban says Cyprus leaders must do more for deal China says opposes Obama meeting with Dalai Lama Obama's budget sober on jobs, optimistic on growth Senate Money Chase Reflects Anti-Incumbent Fervor Obama Budget Seeks $1.9 Trillion Tax Rise on Richest, Business Obama budget: Record spending, record deficit Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:30 pm PST AP - Spelling out painful priorities, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Monday to quickly approve a huge new shot of spending for recession relief and job creation, part of a record $3.8 trillion budget that would boost the deficit beyond any in the nation's history while only slowly beginning to put Americans back to work. Full Story Top AP sources: Officials to study lifting ban on gays Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:20 pm PST AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday will take the first real steps toward lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the military, announcing a yearlong review aimed at answering practical and emotional questions about the effect of lifting the ban, and imposing looser standards for enforcing the ban in the meantime. Full Story Top Obama budget would impose host of tax increases Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:39 pm PST AP - While President Barack Obama is proposing to cut some taxes for companies that hire workers, his budget would raise a host of other taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals. Full Story Top Reid to McCain: 2008 'is over' Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:45 pm PST Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) levies fierce criticism at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Full Story Top Hill, critics eye CIA moonlighting Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:35 pm PST Politico - Senate Intel Committe chairwoman wants answers. Full Story Top If health care dies, Obama's modest budget Plan B Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:17 pm PST AP - President Barack Obama's modest health care budget may be a harbinger of what's ahead if his overhaul plan dies in Congress. Full Story Top Obama seeks $192B as war steps up in Afghanistan Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:07 pm PST AP - President Barack Obama wants $192 billion in war spending for the next year-and-a-half, a hefty sum aimed at escalating the war in Afghanistan amid waning support at home. Full Story Top Republican, Democrat hopefuls target Obama Senate seat Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:11 pm PST AFP - Republican and Democratic hopefuls will duke it out in a primary election Tuesday for the chance to win a potent symbolic prize: President Barack Obama's former US Senate seat. Full Story Top Grand jury indicts father of man in terror plot Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:13 am PST AP - A federal grand jury has charged the father of an airport driver accused in a terror plot with conspiring to obstruct a criminal investigation of the matter. Full Story Top Rendition victim appeals to US Supreme Court Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:38 pm PST AFP - A Canadian man who was transferred by US officials to Syria, where he was imprisoned and allegedly tortured, filed a suit before the US Supreme Court seeking to sue the United States. Full Story Top US military deaths in Afghan region at 893 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:49 pm PST AP - As of Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, at least 893 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Full Story Top US, EU put into effect legal cooperation, extradition agreements Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:54 am PST AFP - The United States and European Union have put into effect agreements on extradition and legal cooperation negotiated after the September 11 attacks, the Justice Department announced Monday. Full Story Top U.N.'s Ban says Cyprus leaders must do more for deal Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:29 am PST Reuters - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Monday leaders of divided Cyprus must make more effort if a peace deal is to be successfully concluded and that both had pledged to work on a deal as soon as possible. Full Story Top China says opposes Obama meeting with Dalai Lama Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:00 pm PST AP - Any meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama would harm bilateral relations, China warned Tuesday while repeating Beijing's refusal to discuss Tibet's status with the spiritual leader's envoys. Full Story Top Obama's budget sober on jobs, optimistic on growth Mon, 1 Feb 2010 03:50 pm PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON _ The Obama administration projects rosier economic-growth prospects than most mainstream economists do but a sobering jobless recovery, according to documents released Monday about underlying assumptions in the government's $3.83 trillion federal budget for 2011. Full Story Top Senate Money Chase Reflects Anti-Incumbent Fervor Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:16 pm PST CQPolitics.com - Fourth-quarter fundraising reports filed this week provided the latest evidence that 2010 is developing into an anti-establishment election year, as several senators reported seven figures' worth of campaign expenditures in an effort to blunt the negative aspects of incumbency. Full Story Top Obama Budget Seeks $1.9 Trillion Tax Rise on Richest, Business Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:00 pm PST Bloomberg - Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration seeks a $970 billion tax increase over the next decade on Americans earning more than $200,000 and wants to take in an additional $400 billion from businesses even as it retools a proposed crackdown on international tax-avoidance techniques. Full Story Top

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