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• Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice (AP)
• US Senate clears way for 26 billion dollar spending bill (AFP)
• Obama bets prestige on Senate seat he once held (AP)
• Pakistan's floods: A key moment for the U.S.? (The Week)
• FCC scraps Net neutrality talks (Politico)
• Senate to confirm Clapper for DNI (Politico)
• Medicare fund will last extra 12 years — maybe (AP)
• FDA finds low risk of dispersants on seafood (AP)
• UK's Cameron, Pakistan's Zardari meet over dinner (AP)
• Kagan confirmed as Obama's second Supreme Court justice (AFP)
• JUSTICE BRENNAN'S FOOTNOTE GAVE US ANCHOR BABIES (Ann Coulter)
• Obama Stumps for Giannoulias in Chicago (CQPolitics.com)
• Obama asks Senate to restore full rank to disgraced Vietnam-era general (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Senate Democrats Offer Border Security Bill as a Parting Shot (CQPolitics.com)
• Insurgents surging in Colorado's Democratic Senate primary (McClatchy Newspapers)

Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice (AP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan Thursday as the Supreme Court's 112th justice and the fourth woman in its history, granting a lifetime term to a lawyer and academic with a reputation for brilliance, a dry sense of humor and a liberal bent.

US Senate clears way for 26 billion dollar spending bill (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:19 PM PDT AFP - US senators cleared the way Wednesday for passage of a 26 billion dollar spending measure to fund education in cash-strapped states and health care for low-income Americans.

Obama bets prestige on Senate seat he once held (AP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 01:39 PM PDT AP - Risking personal prestige and political capital, President Barack Obama took a high-profile plunge Thursday into the race for his former Senate seat, on behalf of a candidate who could embarrass Democrats — and the president himself — if he loses.

Pakistan's floods: A key moment for the U.S.? (The Week) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 11:30 AM PDT The Week - Aid workers rushed to provide food and shelter to 3 million people in Pakistan on Wednesday, as flood waters continued to ravage hundreds of villages in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province. With anger rising over the widely criticized Pakistani government's response, the Obama administration quickly dispatched six military helicopters to airlift victims and ferry in relief supplies — including hundreds of thousands of ready-made halal meals that abide by Islamic dietary rules. Will the U.S. relief effort boost our image among the Pakistani people, and improve our chances of defeating Taliban insurgents hiding in their midst? (Watch a report on Pakistan's flooding)

FCC scraps Net neutrality talks (Politico) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 01:30 PM PDT Politico - Google-Verizon deal is a political setback for the FCC, which wanted to avoid a public battle.

Senate to confirm Clapper for DNI (Politico) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:37 PM PDT Politico - Republicans attempted to block the nomination last week, but Democrats pushed through.

Medicare fund will last extra 12 years — maybe (AP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - Medicare is in better shape because of President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul, and the hospital fund for the elderly will stay afloat a dozen years longer than earlier projected, trustees forecast Thursday. But that depends on cuts in care that the system's top analyst says are highly doubtful.

FDA finds low risk of dispersants on seafood (AP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 01:16 PM PDT AP - The Food and Drug Administration says chemical dispersants used to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico have a low potential for accumulating in seafood, and do not pose a public health concern.

UK's Cameron, Pakistan's Zardari meet over dinner (AP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 07:17 AM PDT AP - Prime Minister David Cameron is meeting Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday — the first time since the British leader accused Pakistan of exporting terrorism.

Kagan confirmed as Obama's second Supreme Court justice (AFP) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 02:27 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama's second US Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan, won Senate confirmation Thursday as just the fourth woman to reach the high bench, giving Democrats a welcome election-year boost.

JUSTICE BRENNAN'S FOOTNOTE GAVE US ANCHOR BABIES (Ann Coulter) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 02:41 PM PDT Ann Coulter - Democrats act as if the right to run across the border when you're 8 1/2 months pregnant, give birth in a U.S. hospital and then immediately start collecting welfare was exactly what our forebears had in mind, a sacred constitutional right, as old as the 14th Amendment itself.

Obama Stumps for Giannoulias in Chicago (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:37 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - President Barack Obama appeared at a fundraiser Thursday afternoon to boost Illinois state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, the Democrat he hopes will win his former Senate seat in November.

Obama asks Senate to restore full rank to disgraced Vietnam-era general (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:44 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — It was the scandal du jour. The year was 1972, the Vietnam War was still raging, nearing its bitter finale, and the Congress and press were in full-throated pursuit of a supposedly "rogue" general who'd exceeded his authority and waged his own air war over North Vietnam. There were false intelligence reports from the battlefield, to boot.

Senate Democrats Offer Border Security Bill as a Parting Shot (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 11:06 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - In an 11th-hour effort to pass border security legislation before leaving for the summer recess, Senate Democrats unveiled a $600 million spending bill Thursday that they said is fully paid for.

Insurgents surging in Colorado's Democratic Senate primary (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:23 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - DENVER — He won there himself, but Colorado may be the next state where President Barack Obama loses a fellow Democrat from the Senate.

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