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• Reid: Compromise in hand to reopen FAA (AP)
• Military money on chopping block in austere time (AP)
• Debt ceiling votes herded without carrots, sticks (AP)
• Ground turkey recall: Why did it take so long? (AP)
• Medicare prescription premiums won't rise in 2012 (AP)
• Firm dissolves after giving pro-Romney PAC $1M (AP)
• Senate deal on worker aid opens way for trade vote (AP)
• Obama to visit advanced battery facility in Mich. (AP)
• Reid announces deal to end FAA impasse (Politico)
• Drugstore interests blast merger (Politico)
• Dems warn long-term jobless could derail recovery (AP)
• RNC rejects tough sanctions on primary calendar (AP)
• WH plan to fight US terror light on new ideas (AP)
• Prosecutor: Norway killer holding back info (AP)
• Grim economic news clouds Obama 50th (AFP)
• OBAMA NEEDS TO BE MORE LEADER AND LESS CONCILIATOR (Georgie Anne Geyer)
• Senate and House strike deal to end FAA shutdown (Daily Caller)
• Vogue Paris raises eyebrows with risque pictorial of 10-year-old (Daily Caller)
• Fox analysts say remarks about Palin were a joke (AP)
• Analysis: Republican leaders heed Tea Party but risk backlash (Reuters)

Reid: Compromise in hand to reopen FAA (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - Congress has reached a bipartisan compromise to end the two-week partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration that has idled 74,000 federal employees and construction workers and cost the government about $30 million a day in uncollected airline ticket taxes, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

Military money on chopping block in austere time (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:27 PM PDT AP - The Pentagon got nearly everything it asked for during a decade of two wars shadowed by the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the rise of al-Qaida. No more.

Debt ceiling votes herded without carrots, sticks (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:21 PM PDT AP - Speaker John Boehner was desperate in his search for votes from his party to prevent a first-ever government default. But despite what a GOP freshman called "hour by hour by hour" pressure from the Ohio Republican leader and his lieutenants, rank-and-file holdouts said they were neither offered carrots nor threatened with sticks to change their minds. That's a major transformation from the not too distant past.

Ground turkey recall: Why did it take so long? (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:01 PM PDT AP - The first sickness was in March and the first signs of a salmonella outbreak appeared in May. Two months later, investigators linked the outbreak to ground turkey and a Cargill meat processing plant in Arkansas.

Medicare prescription premiums won't rise in 2012 (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:39 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration had good news for seniors Thursday: The average monthly premium for Medicare's popular prescription program won't go up next year.

Firm dissolves after giving pro-Romney PAC $1M (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:06 PM PDT AP - A fledgling company dissolved shortly after making a $1 million contribution to an independent political committee supporting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, leaving the source of the money unclear.

Senate deal on worker aid opens way for trade vote (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:34 PM PDT AP - A Senate deal on extending some Obama stimulus aid for workers whose jobs move overseas could break a political logjam blocking free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.

Obama to visit advanced battery facility in Mich. (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:56 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama plans to visit an advanced battery facility in Holland, Mich., next week to highlight his administration's efforts to boost the economy by promoting cutting-edge industries.

Reid announces deal to end FAA impasse (Politico) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:12 PM PDT Politico - The majority leader says a two-week standoff that had sidelined thousands of workers will end.

Drugstore interests blast merger (Politico) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:46 AM PDT Politico - Two groups demand that the FTC offer a “thorough analysis” of the “anti-competitive” deal.

Dems warn long-term jobless could derail recovery (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:00 PM PDT AP - Unemployment remains stubbornly high at just over 9 percent, but it's the alarming number of long-term jobless that is causing fresh concern for Democratic lawmakers.

RNC rejects tough sanctions on primary calendar (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:13 AM PDT AP - The Republican National Committee has rejected a plan to force tougher sanctions on states that jump ahead in the presidential primary calendar.

WH plan to fight US terror light on new ideas (AP) Posted: 03 Aug 2011 02:09 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration's new strategy to fight the threat of al-Qaida and other violent radicals in the U.S. is short on details and fails to name a single point of coordination for all of the various initiatives at the federal and local levels, said lawmakers who have asked the government for years to develop a plan for the homegrown terror threat.

Prosecutor: Norway killer holding back info (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:15 AM PDT AP - A Norwegian prosecutor said Thursday he is concerned that the confessed perpetrator of last month's attacks that killed 77 people is declining to give information that could determine if he had accomplices.

Grim economic news clouds Obama 50th (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:55 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama turned 50 Thursday, marking the milestone in private in a White House with little to celebrate as poor economic news cast a cloud over his reelection prospects.

OBAMA NEEDS TO BE MORE LEADER AND LESS CONCILIATOR (Georgie Anne Geyer) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:43 PM PDT Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- The debt crisis is all fixed, at least for a long time, right? In the end, both parties did cooperate, correct? Our intellectual president did show the wisdom held within his graying head, true?

Senate and House strike deal to end FAA shutdown (Daily Caller) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:11 PM PDT Daily Caller - The Senate has struck a bipartisan deal to end the shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has been partially shuttered since its funding expired on July 23.

Vogue Paris raises eyebrows with risque pictorial of 10-year-old (Daily Caller) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:11 PM PDT Daily Caller - French model Thylane Loubry Blondeau's recent photo shoot for Vogue Paris has many fashion-watchers asking the same question: Did the magazine just enter creepy territory?

Fox analysts say remarks about Palin were a joke (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:34 PM PDT AP - Two Fox News Channel analysts said Thursday they were joking when they spoke on the air about going easy on fellow Fox employee Sarah Palin.

Analysis: Republican leaders heed Tea Party but risk backlash (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT Reuters - Emboldened by concessions wrung from their own leadership and President Barack Obama during the debt limit fight, Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers will likely remain a driving force in the Republican Party -- and possibly induce gridlock until the 2012 elections.

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