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Fallout Continues from California's Budget Woes - NewsHour border=

Fallout Continues from California's Budget Woes - NewsHour

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JIM LEHRER: Next tonight, bills are coming due in California and the state is having trouble paying them. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels has that report. SPENCER MICHELS: State-issued IOUs are starting to show up in California mailboxes, …
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Chu Brings Diverse Career to Congress - CQPolitics.com

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Ethnicity will be the one obvious difference when California tax board member Judy Chu arrives in Washington shortly to succeed fellow Democrat Hilda L. Solis. Chu, the easy winner of Tuesday's House special election in …
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Sotomayor says Obama didn't ask about abortion - The Associated Press border=

Sotomayor says Obama didn't ask about abortion - The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in the administration asked her views on abortion rights before she was nominated for the Supreme Court. "I was asked no question by anyone including …
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Daughter of Slain Fla. Couple: 'This Is Unimaginable' - ABC News border=

Daughter of Slain Fla. Couple: 'This Is Unimaginable' - ABC News

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The oldest daughter of a Florida couple police say were murdered last week says she is shocked at the brutal killings that left her and 16 other siblings parentless. Ashley Markham talks about the …
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SC gov cancels state meetings for trip with wife - The Associated Press border=

SC gov cancels state meetings for trip with wife - The Associated Press

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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has cleared his schedule this week to take a personal trip with his wife, three weeks after announcing his extramarital affair with an Argentine woman, his office announced Wednesday. …
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RPT-US senator temporarily drops bid to kill F-22 funds - Reuters border=

RPT-US senator temporarily drops bid to kill F-22 funds - Reuters

Reuters
WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - US Democratic Senator Carl Levin on Wednesday temporarily withdrew a bid to kill $1.75 billion in funding for the F-22 fighter jet in a massive defense bill, but he vowed to bring it up again. …
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DHS chief to promote cheaper secure licenses - The Associated Press border=

DHS chief to promote cheaper secure licenses - The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the country needs to make driver's licenses more secure to thwart terrorists, and a new program supported by the Obama administration and governors across the country would do just …
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Obama's day: Promoting health care - USA Today border=

Obama's day: Promoting health care - USA Today

USA Today
Good morning from The Oval. It's been 38 years since President Richard Nixon made the stunning announcement that he would visit communist China, the first US leader to do so in more than two decades. These days, President Obama hopes his health care …
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Episcopal leaders vote to lift ban on gay bishops - Los Angeles Times border=

Episcopal leaders vote to lift ban on gay bishops - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times
The church may move to sanction blessings for same-sex couples as well, further alienating conservative parishes. By Duke Helfand The Episcopal Church, casting aside warnings about further alienating conservatives within its ranks, on Tuesday lifted a …
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Reuters
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Obama Attacks on Economy and Seeks Billions for Community Colleges - New York Times border=

Obama Attacks on Economy and Seeks Billions for Community Colleges - New York Times

New York Times
WARREN, Mich. — President Obama came to this struggling auto industry town Tuesday to urge patience for his economic policies, to thunder at his newly emboldened critics in Washington and to introduce an education plan intended to help …
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