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• Obama: Rangel case troubling; some Dems say resign (AP)
• Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration (AP)
• Obama: 'pay off' from auto bailout (Politico)
• 'As long as is necessary' terror bill (Politico)
• AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar keeps oil drill ban, for now (AP)
• UNESCO declares Everglades endangered site (Reuters)
• PLO official says Obama sent warning to Abbas (AP)
• Connecticut's McMahon No.4 All-Time Self-Funder (CQPolitics.com)
• When will spill be cleaned up? Maybe never (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Obama slips behind wheel of a Volt in Motor City (McClatchy Newspapers)

Obama: Rangel case troubling; some Dems say resign (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:59 AM PDT AP - Rep. Charlie Rangel is getting sympathy from some fellow Democrats but scant support from others as he faces trial on several ethics charges.

Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 06:30 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States, according to an agency memo.

Obama: 'pay off' from auto bailout (Politico) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 04:14 AM PDT Politico - After visiting two auto plants, President Obama calls the rescue of the industry a success.

'As long as is necessary' terror bill (Politico) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:53 PM PDT Politico - It would boost legal authority to delay reading terrorism suspects their Miranda rights.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar keeps oil drill ban, for now (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 12:41 PM PDT AP - The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana's coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor.

UNESCO declares Everglades endangered site (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 02:30 PM PDT Reuters - A U.N. panel has declared the Florida's Everglades to be an endangered World Heritage site due to the wetlands' continued degradation, officials said on Friday.

PLO official says Obama sent warning to Abbas (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 01:38 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama warned Mahmoud Abbas in a letter that U.S.-Palestinian relations might suffer if the Palestinian leader refuses to resume direct peace talks with Israel, a senior PLO official said Saturday.

Connecticut's McMahon No.4 All-Time Self-Funder (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 06:34 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - Only three Congressional candidates in history have donated more personal money to their campaigns than Connecticut Senate hopeful Linda McMahon, and she's hardly done spending yet.

When will spill be cleaned up? Maybe never (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:51 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - After more than three months, BP appears finally to have gotten a firm grasp on its runaway Deepwater Horizon well. Now the big question in the Gulf of Mexico is how, and if, an environmental mess of unprecedented scope can be cleaned up.

Obama slips behind wheel of a Volt in Motor City (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - DETROIT — Out to convince voters that the bailout of the U.S. auto industry has been a success — and to build buzz for its controversial poster child, Chevy's Volt electric car — President Barack Obama on Friday drove a car publicly for the first time in more than three years and implored consumers, "Don't bet against the American people."

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