Archive for May 30th, 2009
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Obama’s Gramps: Gazing skyward on D-Day in England (AP)
AP – Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day. Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began. -
Government won’t release wiretap documents
The Obama administration insists it has no obligation to provide access to a top secret document in a wiretapping case, setting up a showdown next week with the judge who ordered it released.
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Move over Oprah? Obama sells books (Politico)
Politico – When President Barack Obama recently told The New York Times Magazine that he was reading “Netherland,” the novel caught fire.
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Obama: Efforts to scuttle Sotomayor will fail (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that efforts to scuttle Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court will fail despite intensified scrutiny of her judicial career. He said senators should work quickly to elevate the federal appeals judge. -
GOP divided over how tough to be on Sotomayor (AP)
AP – Republicans are divided over how aggressively to go after Sonia Sotomayor, a family feud about the tone of the debate over confirming the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. -
Baucus, Kennedy to work together on health care (AP)
AP – The two Senate Democrats leading the drive to overhaul health care say they will work together to come up with legislation. -
U.S. vows to keep using ’state secrets’ defense
The Obama administration has informed a federal judge it will continue to invoke the “state secrets” privilege in a legal battle with an Islamic charity suspected of funding terrorism.
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Geithner’s China trip comes at difficult time (AP)
AP – Timothy Geithner’s first trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the Obama administration. -
CNN fades in prime-time picture (Politico)
Politico – On day one, CNN ruled cable news.
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Gov’t refuses to release documents in wiretap case (AP)
AP – The Obama administration insists it has no obligation to provide access to a top secret document in a wiretapping case, setting up a showdown next week with the judge who ordered it released.
