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• Boehner exits budget talks with Obama (AP)
• Intra-GOP wars block path to debt ceiling accord (AP)
• Boehner withdraws from debt talks with Obama (AP)
• Partisan dispute to partially shut down FAA (AP)
• Obama ends gays in military ban (AP)
• Panetta says US must keep up pressure on al-Qaida (AP)
• Senate holds off on pressing Plan B on debt limit (AP)
• Boehner: 'No deal' on ending debt limit stalemate (AP)
• Citizens United to air Bachmann ads (Politico)
• House votes to keep Styrofoam cups (Politico)
• Opposition: Iran consolidates nuclear bomb effort (AP)
• Obama extends condolences to Norway over bombing (AP)
• ATF chief confirms some criticism of the agency (AP)
• Swiss court finds trio guilty in Swiss bomb plot (AP)
• Obama to make press statement at 2200 GMT (AFP)
• It Should All Be Free (Mona Charen)
• Sarah Palin Again Says She Wants to 'Help the Media' (ContributorNetwork)
• Obama, Romney and the Tea Party: Which One Will Go Away First? (ContributorNetwork)

Boehner exits budget talks with Obama (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:01 PM PDT AP - House Speaker John Boehner has broken off talks with President Barack Obama on getting a budget deal to avert a government default.

Intra-GOP wars block path to debt ceiling accord (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:25 PM PDT AP - What if they yield, even a little?

Boehner withdraws from debt talks with Obama (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:05 PM PDT AP - Speaker John Boehner broke off talks with President Barack Obama on a deal to cut spending and avert a government default Friday night. He said he would begin talks instead with Senate leaders.

Partisan dispute to partially shut down FAA (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:12 PM PDT AP - The Federal Aviation Administration is hours away from a partial shutdown that will put nearly 4,000 people out of work temporarily and suspend federal airline ticket taxes.

Obama ends gays in military ban (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:50 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Friday formally signed off on ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military, doing away with a policy that's been controversial from the day it was enacted and making good on his 2008 campaign promise to the gay community.

Panetta says US must keep up pressure on al-Qaida (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:45 AM PDT AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday he is confident the Pentagon can manage coming budget reductions without weakening the military.

Senate holds off on pressing Plan B on debt limit (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:16 AM PDT AP - The Senate's top Democrat is holding off on pressing ahead with a backup plan to avoid a government default.

Boehner: 'No deal' on ending debt limit stalemate (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 07:51 AM PDT AP - Speaker John Boehner declared Friday that the House has "done its job" toward resolving the impasse over raising the government's debt limit and said it was time for the Senate to act.

Citizens United to air Bachmann ads (Politico) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:41 PM PDT Politico - The conservative group's Iowa ad buy will tout a new film about the presidential hopeful.

House votes to keep Styrofoam cups (Politico) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:49 AM PDT Politico - By a 179-234 vote, the House rejected the amendment to the legislative branch spending bill.

Opposition: Iran consolidates nuclear bomb effort (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:32 PM PDT AP - An Iranian opposition group said Friday that Tehran's leaders have consolidated several scattered nuclear research efforts in a single new defense agency geared to streamline weapons development.

Obama extends condolences to Norway over bombing (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:47 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Friday that a lethal bomb blast in Norway's capital of Oslo is a reminder that the world has a stake in stopping acts of terrorism.

ATF chief confirms some criticism of the agency (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says that in at least one instance during a now-controversial gun-running investigation his agents did not intercept high-powered weapons when they could and should have.

Swiss court finds trio guilty in Swiss bomb plot (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:38 AM PDT AP - Three environmental activists with links to European anarchist groups were found guilty Friday of plotting a bomb attack on an unfinished IBM nanotech research facility near the Swiss city of Zurich.

Obama to make press statement at 2200 GMT (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:02 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama will make a statement Friday expected to address arduous negotiations on a deal to avert a ruinous early August debt default, the White House said.

It Should All Be Free (Mona Charen) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:00 AM PDT Mona Charen - Free medicine! That's what Obamacare has brought you — or should bring you, at least according to CNN.

Sarah Palin Again Says She Wants to 'Help the Media' (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:42 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin is dusting off her journalism degree again and, according to the Huffington Post, says the could teach members of the mainstream media a thing or two when it comes to producing quality reporting and news coverage.

Obama, Romney and the Tea Party: Which One Will Go Away First? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:00 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Will the Republicans follow past precedence in nominating a presidential candidate for the 2012 elections or finally try something new? So far, all indications are they will continue to follow the same failed political strategy as in the past and nominate the candidate who has either paid his dues to the party or is the one who will pull the most Democratic votes in the election. Right now this candidate seems to be Mitt Romney, and they would once again set the party up for failure.

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