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Cuba spy charges surprise neighbors in D.C.
AP - Behind the massive English gates that herald the luxury co-op complex have lived senators, Cabinet members, judges.
GOP sees W.H. letter as snub
Politico - The president seems to ignore their weeks-old request for a meeting.
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Wiesel, Obama at Nazi site
AP - President Barack Obama, the first U.S. president to visit Buchenwald, walked through the former Nazi concentration camp with someone very familiar with its history: Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
Expert: suffocation main cause of Briton's death
AP - A British student killed in Italy in 2007 died from suffocation caused by her murderers, showing a clear intent to kill, as well as from the stab wounds inflicted to her neck, a forensic expert told a court Friday.
Latvia to abandon Soviet-era bomb shelters
AP - One of the old bomb shelters is now a fish cannery. Another has just been turned into a high-tech data storage center. Yet another is a museum.
Dutch anti-Islamic party makes gains in EU poll
AFP - EU parliamentary elections hit turbulence Friday after prematurely published Dutch results confirmed fears of voter apathy and extremist gains and Britain's prime minister sought damage control.
Obama says North Korea must respond to diplomacy
AP - President Barack Obama is indicating that North Korea has tested the limits of patient diplomacy calculated to persuade the communist nation to get rid of its nuclear weapons.
Experts mull over lessons from plane crash
AP - The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are needed to prevent similar tragedies in the future.
`Smart grid' — buzz of the electric power industry
AP - Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet.
House Dems draft sweeping health bill
Politico - House Democrats are drafting a sweeping health-care reform that creates a national insurance marketplace where people can choose public and private plans with the same minimum standard of benefits, according to a detailed outline of the bill obtained Friday by POLITICO.
Iran expands uranium efforts despite Obama's offer of talks
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Iran has expanded its uranium enrichment program and is impeding United Nations monitoring of its enrichment program, a confidential U.N. report said Friday.
A Race But Not a Crowd in Kansas' Open 4th District
CQPolitics.com - It has been decades since there has been an open House race in the region covered by the 4th Congressional District of Kansas. The incumbent, Republican Todd Tiahrt, is in his eighth term. Democrat Dan Glickman, whom Tiahrt unseated in 1994, had held the seat for nine terms before that.
AP Source: Guilty pleas weighed in some 9/11 cases
AP - Guantanamo detainees facing the death penalty could plead guilty without a full trial under a plan the Obama administration is considering, a senior administration official said Saturday.
Obama calls for agencies to set stimulus goals
AP - President Barack Obama wants agencies to lay out specific goals for economic stimulus spending over the next several months, a push to focus more on his $787 billion recovery plan.
Obama salutes D-Day vets - minus one
Politico - Obama marks the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
Defending Big Tobacco is a lonely fight these days
AP - Like smoking, defending tobacco just isn't cool anymore.
US looking at its own sanctions against NKorea
AP - The United States said Friday it is considering slapping its own financial sanctions on North Korea in addition to whatever punishment the United Nations takes against the North's recent nuclear test.
Obama pledges support on Air France probe
AP - President Barack Obama says the United States has authorized all of the government's resources to investigate an Air France plane that disappeared off the coast of South America.
U.S. bailout repayment seen bigger than expected: report
Reuters - The Obama administration is expected to announce next week that a higher-than-expected number of large financial institutions will be allowed to repay their government bailout funds, the Washington Post reported in its Saturday edition.
Political Economy: Driving GM Crazy
CQPolitics.com - The federal government's majority stake in once-mighty General Motors Corp. is giving new meaning to the old joke about the car-chasing dog: Now that we've caught it, what are we going to do with it?
Obama, Sarkozy disagree Turkey's entry to EU
AP - President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy don't see eye to eye on whether Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union.
Ooh La La... hero's welcome for Obamas in Paris
AFP - US President Barack Obama and his family received a hero's welcome in Paris on Saturday as they were given a private tour of the famed Notre Dame cathedral.
Obama to host Berlusconi at White House June 15
AFP - President Barack Obama will host Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on June 15, the White House said Saturday, as the Italian leader is shadowed by scandal back home.
At 'Obama beach,' U.S. president salutes W.W. II victors, warns N. Korea, Iran
McClatchy Newspapers - COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France_On the 65th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy to free Europe from the Nazis, President Barack Obama saluted the elderly veterans who once stormed the beaches and achieved an 'improbable victory' in World War II.
Justice lawyers urged limits on interrogations
AP - Senior Justice Department lawyers in 2005 sought to limit tough interrogation tactics against terror suspects, but were overruled.
All but over for Coleman, experts say
Politico - Election law experts agree: Norm Coleman doesn’t have a prayer.
Obama team plans more active role on health care
AP - The White House, backing away from President Barack Obama's 'it's-all-on-the-table' approach initially advocated, prepared to get louder and more involved in the details of a health care overhaul that officials once were content to leave to Congress, administration officials said Saturday.
Justice lawyers sought interrogation limits
AP - Senior Justice Department lawyers in 2005 sought to limit tough interrogation tactics against terror suspects, but were overruled.
DHS nominee drops out over ties to CIA interrogations
AP - President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration Friday amid questions about his role in the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists.
Obama hits back at Euro snub rumors
AFP - President Barack Obama is hitting back at 'very wild' rumors that key US allies like France and Germany feel they are getting short shrift from the breakneck pace of his global travel.
High court asked to block Chrysler sale to Fiat
AP - Opponents of Chrysler's sale to Fiat are asking the Supreme Court to block the deal.
Taking the measure of Sotomayor's courtroom manner
AP - Sonia Sotomayor was in her 30s and not yet a judge when she noticed that a paralegal at the law firm where she worked broke out in hives whenever she entered Sotomayor's office. After six months, they laughed about it.
Obama arrives at D-Day ceremony
AP - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have landed at the site honoring thousands of U.S. service members who died 65 years ago during the Allied invasion of France.
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