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Demonstrators disrupt health care forums
AP - As they head home to their congressional districts for the August recess, lawmakers who support health care reform are bracing for protests and demonstrations that threaten to turn violent.
No criminal charges in electrocution death
AP - No criminal charges will be filed against military contractor KBR Inc. in connection with the electrocution of a Green Beret soldier who died while showering in his barracks in Iraq, the Defense Department said Friday.
Russian court refuses new Politkovskaya inquiry
AP - A Moscow court rejected a plea by the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya for a new investigation into her death, leading critics again to accuse authorities of not being interested in hunting the perpetrators.
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs released in UK
AP - Ronnie Biggs, the last prisoner from Britain's 'great train robbery' and once a high-living fugitive in Rio de Janeiro, gained his freedom on Friday but remained near death in his hospital bed.
Healthcare critics make outlandish claims, Obama says
Reuters - President Barack Obama accused his critics on Saturday of resorting to 'outlandish rumors' and 'misleading information' aimed at derailing his efforts to overhaul the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system.
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Chamber at odds with Obama
AP - If President Barack Obama wants to take the measure of his opposition, he only has to glance across Lafayette Park from the White House. There, behind 10 massive Corinthian columns, is the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — a leading critic of the administration's health care and banking overhaul plans.
For Dems, a new public enemy No. 1
Politico - Ask Minnesota Democratic officials about Michele Bachmann, and they can barely contain their anger.
Obama's health care plan helped by drug industry
AP - The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority.
Obama: Don't buy health 'rumors'
Politico - In his weekly address, the president warns Americans not to believe “rumors” about health care reform.
Sotomayor, veteran judge, is rookie on high court
AP - Sonia Sotomayor has gained admission to the Marble Palace. Now she has to figure out how the Supreme Court works.
Sotomayor becomes first Hispanic Supreme Court justice
AFP - Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in Saturday as a US Supreme Court justice, becoming the first Hispanic justice on the nation's highest bench.
Sonia Sotomayor Sworn In as Supreme Court Justice
Bloomberg - Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the
111th U.S. Supreme Court justice and the first Hispanic, taking
the oath of office at the high court two days after winning
Senate confirmation.
Analysis: To-do list largely undone
AP - Midway through the first year of their party's control of Congress and the White House, President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats can point to early signs the nation is beginning to shake off its worst recession in seven decades.
Look at what Congress has done so far this year
AP - Some of the Democratic-led 111th Congress' accomplishments in the six months since Democratic President Barack Obama took office:
Sotomayor becomes first Hispanic US Supreme Court justice
AFP - Sonia Sotomayor made history Saturday as she took the oath of office to become the first Hispanic US Supreme Court justice, and just the third woman on the court in its 220-year history.
Clinton: US to work with Afghan election winner
AP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the U.S. is ready to work with the winner of Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election.
Now that she's sworn in, Sotomayor a rookie again
AP - Sonia Sotomayor has gained admission to the Marble Palace. Now she has to figure out how the Supreme Court works.
Feds to keep better conditions at Texas facility
AP - Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreed Friday to continue improvements to a central Texas detention center until all immigrant families held there have left.
In Europe, 'cash for clunkers' drives sales
AP - For months, European car buyers have been junking clunkers for cash, boosting automakers sales — but making experts fear that once the government handouts stop, the struggling car industry will return to a slump no pile of cash can conquer.
Obama sharpens Afghanistan goals
Politico - President Obama will send Congress a new plan for measuring progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
'Wise Latina' Sotomayor joins US Supreme Court
AFP - Sonia Sotomayor made history Saturday as she took the oath of office to become the first Hispanic US Supreme Court justice, and just the third woman on the court in its 220-year history.
Analysis: Eritrea confounds US in Somalia
AP - As it boosts aid to Somalia's weak interim government to fight an al-Qaida-linked Islamist militia, the Obama administration is grasping for ways to cut off what it says is one of the militant group's main supply lines: the tiny Red Sea state of Eritrea.
As Dems fret, Obama sharpens war goals
Politico - President Obama will send Congress a new plan for measuring progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Collision turns attention to for-hire flights
AP - The collision that sent a sightseeing helicopter full of tourists and a small plane into the Hudson River on Saturday comes less than a month after a federal watchdog warned that safety oversight of sightseeing and other for-hire flights is too lax.
Health-care outbursts foreshadow a hot August
AP - Loud outbursts, hot tempers and pleas for civility at town hall meetings around the country Saturday foreshadowed a long, hot August as Democratic lawmakers returning home faced resistance to proposals to reform the nation's costly health care system.
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