AP - Incomplete European election results project this range of seats for political groups in the next EU assembly:

AP - President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.

AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ruling Labour party braced Sunday for 'dismal' European election results, set to add to pressure on his leadership after a week of political turmoil.

Bloomberg - June 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, pressing Congress to pass health-care legislation this year, will outline to skeptical lawmakers how he would pay for a plan most experts say would cost more than $1 trillion, U.S. officials said.

AP - Former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson on Monday called the detention and sentencing of two young women journalists in North Korea part of 'a high-stakes poker game.'

Politico - Two ambitious conservatives may have a shot at knocking off the more-senior Roscoe Bartlett.

Politico - He is announcing he is ramping up stimulus spending exponentially in the next three months.  

AFP - US President Barack Obama is 'deeply concerned' over the sentencing of two US journalists by North Korea and is using 'all possible channels' to obtain their release, The White House said Monday.

Bloomberg - June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Automobile dealers have been among the biggest contributors to U.S. political campaigns over the past decade, surpassing all but two groups in donations. That $13 million investment may be paying off as the dealers get a lot of attention on Capitol Hill.

AP - The Supreme Court has turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration.

AP - The Supreme Court has ruled that elected judges must step aside from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias.

AP - The Obama administration is working 'through all possible channels' to secure the release of two young women journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea, the White House said Monday.

AP - Former first lady Laura Bush says she's pleased that President Barack Obama nominated a woman for the Supreme Court.

AP - The Supreme Court will not consider making changes to the sentence of a radical environmentalist linked to multiple arsons across the West.

AP - The U.S. Navy is sending two high-tech devices to French ships that will help them locate the black box flight recorders for the Air France plane that crashed nearly a week ago in the Atlantic Ocean.

AP - As an exercise in nation-building, Macedonia's latest effort is pretty audacious — an eight-story-high statue of Alexander the Great on horseback, in the center of the capital.

AFP - President Barack Obama announced Monday he would ramp up economic stimulus spending over the next three months in a bid to save or create 600,000 jobs through summer youth programs, schools and public works.

AP - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the current Iraqi government cannot be held responsible in U.S. courts for the acts of Saddam Hussein's regime.

AP - A Senate committee plans to question two members of the White House's auto task force about using taxpayer money to restructure General Motors and Chrysler.

AP - Republicans on a key Senate committee are warning President Barack Obama that he's making a mistake on health care by supporting a government insurance option for the middle class.

AP - America's largest trading partners are warning that protectionist moves by Congress could poison global trade relations, despite President Barack Obama's assurances that he wants to keep U.S. markets open.

Reuters - The Obama administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to allow the sale of bankrupt automaker Chrysler LLC to a group led by Italian carmaker Fiat SpA, saying that blocking the deal would have 'grave consequences.'

AP - A rare poll of Iranians says that few of them have favorable opinions of the United States, a view that hasn't changed much from before the election of President Barack Obama.

AP - Think your job's tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour.

AP - Former New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith says he's running for Senate in Florida.

AP - A federal judge is expressing doubts about his authority to interfere in the case of a U.S. citizen who faces trial in the United Arab Emirates on terrorism charges.

AP - The Supreme Court won't stop Pennsylvania officials from prosecuting a man whose computer was found to contain child pornography while it was at Circuit City being upgraded.

AP - A look at the top 10 arms spenders and top 10 arms producers in the world, according to estimates by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute:

CQPolitics.com - Later this summer, New York Rep. John McHugh expects to quit his job in Congress to become Secretary of the Army.

AP - The White House is defending the overly optimistic economic models it used to justify the historic stimulus plan.

AP - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has temporarily delayed Chrysler's sale to Fiat.

AP - The White House says the president of South Korea will visit President Barack Obama next week.

Politico - President set to increase stimulus spending exponentially in the next three months.  

AP - The Pentagon said Monday that U.S. troops did not follow proper tactics and procedures during an air assault on Taliban fighters last month. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the number of Taliban militants killed in the May 4 air strikes 'greatly outnumbered' the number of civilians slain. But Morrell noted some problems in the way the strikes were carried out, citing a U.S. warplane that appears to have erred in bombing its target.

AFP - Indonesia on Monday offered a boost to President Barack Obama's vision of a nuclear-free world, pledging to ratify a treaty banning nuclear tests if the US Senate does.

AP - In a June 6 story about the arrest of a Washington couple accused of spying for Cuba, The Associated Press, relying on information from Johns Hopkins University, erroneously reported that accused spy Walter Kendall Myers had worked as an adjunct professor at the university since the late 1980s. Myers was an associate professor at JHU in the early 1970s. He then became an adjunct professor in the late 1970s and held that position ever since

AFP - The US Supreme Court on Monday put a temporary hold on the Chrysler plan to exit bankruptcy protection under an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.

AFP - The Obama administration on Monday studied its options for the release of two US journalists sentenced by North Korea to 12 years of labor amid tension over Pyongyang's test of a nuclear bomb.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday made it easier to force elected judges off cases if they've accepted big campaign contributions.

AP - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday delayed Chrysler's sale of most of its assets to a group led by Italy's Fiat, but didn't say how long the deal will remain on hold.

AP - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hobbled through a busy day of meetings on Capitol Hill Monday after breaking her ankle in an early morning airport stumble, then boarding a flight from New York to Washington to visit senators who will vote on her confirmation.

Politico - Court deals a potential blow to Obama's hopes for a quick sale of the ailing American giant.

Politico - Robert Byrd has been in the hospital with a staph infection for nearly three weeks.

AP - President Barack Obama's penchant for last-minute demands, and a rebellion by liberal allies over his efforts to block the release of detainee abuse photos, have combined to sidetrack his bill to pay for an expanded war in Afghanistan as well as continuing military operations in Iraq.

AP - Even after Flight 1549 glided to a near-perfect forced landing on the Hudson River in January, the plane and its 155 passengers and crew came within inches of catastrophe when someone cracked open a rear door, sending water gushing into the cabin.

AP - Don't expect a rush order if you call Joanna Williamson's jewelry business. She's a military spouse, and it's moving season.

AP - A dog playing fetch in Germany has found and delivered to its owner a U.S. hand grenade from World War II.

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 8 (OneWorld.net) - A broad coalition of groups has launched a nationwide campaign to hold President Barack Obama to his pledge to pass comprehensive immigration reform, believing they can see legislation passed by the end of the year.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delayed the Obama administration-brokered sale of Chrysler LLC, potentially throwing into jeopardy the bankruptcy proceedings of two of the three large American carmakers.

CQPolitics.com - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will attend Monday night's Republican congressional fundraising dinner, according to GOP sources.

AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency's terror interrogations would gravely damage national security.

Politico - Senate GOP not letting Sotomayor's comment die.

AP - Chrysler's five weeks of breakneck-speed bankruptcy proceedings came to a screeching — but possibly temporary — halt Monday, when a Supreme Court justice delayed its sale of assets to Italy's Fiat.

AP - The operators of a ski resort in northern Arizona hope to give patrons a better sense of when they'll open for the season and for how long.

Time.com - The list of reasons to admire Barack Obama is longer than Pennsylvania Avenue. But please, and I'm begging here, let's not hold him up as an exemplary husband simply because he takes his wife out on a date

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Monday gave the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan 60 days to conduct another review of the American strategy there, the fifth since President Barack Obama took office less than five months ago.

Politico - A landmark bill would authorize the FDA to regulate the industry with a mandate to reduce teen smoking.

Politico - Each of the three candidates have scenarios under which they think they could win the Dem nomination.

AP - Republicans and two dissident Democrats took control of New York's Senate on Monday after the two New York City renegades voted with the GOP to throw the fledgling Democratic majority out of power.

AP - The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Monday not to use skin products made by Clarcon because of high levels of disease-causing bacteria found during a recent inspection.

AP - Providence Mayor David Cicilline said Monday that he would participate in a national mayors conference this week, even as Vice President Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials stay away to avoid a union protest.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress are gearing up for what could be a crucial, month-long drive to craft health care legislation before the July 4 recess.

AP - A government test of whether 19 major banks could survive a further downturn in the economy may have relied on too rosy a scenario and should be repeated, independent investigators say.

AP - A federal judge in Las Vegas has ordered a man be transferred to Utah to face a charge of threatening President Barack Obama, even as the man's defense attorney and family pleaded that the suspect get mental health treatment.

CQPolitics.com - Sarah Palin could have stolen the show without uttering a word at Monday night's $14.45 million Republican congressional dinner. But she didn't.