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Al Franken declared winner after 8-month battle

Philadelphia Inquirer - Brian Bakst - ‎2 hours ago‎
AP ST. PAUL, Minn. - Al Franken went yesterday from the ranks of former Saturday Night Live comedians to the US Senate, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month-long recount battle and courtroom saga.

11th-hour votes on state budget fail

Los Angeles Times - Shane GoldmacherMichael Rothfeld - ‎2 hours ago‎
Rich Pedroncelli / AP Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), with Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), responds to a question concerning the cash crisis during a news conference at the Capitol.

SC gov gambles to 'lay it all out' about affair

The Associated Press - Tamara LushBrett J. Blackledge - ‎1 hour ago‎
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - After days of assuring the public he was firmly in control after admitting a scandalous affair, South Carolina Gov.

US adopts California auto emissions standards

Baltimore Sun - Meredith Cohn - ‎2 hours ago‎
The Obama administration granted California permission Tuesday to begin enforcing its stricter auto emissions standards, paving the way for Maryland and other states to also curb tailpipe emissions, ...
EPA takes the clean-air route San Francisco Chronicle

Obama Presents Bill to Create Consumer-Finance Watchdog

Washington Post - David ChoMichael D. Shear - ‎5 hours ago‎
The Obama administration sent a detailed proposal to Congress yesterday for creating an agency to oversee nearly all facets of consumer lending, but the breadth of its powers is setting the stage for a fierce clash on ...

Drive-By Shooting at Detroit Bus Stop Injures 7 Teenagers

New York Times - ‎7 hours ago‎
By AP DETROIT (AP) - Gunmen in a minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding seven, the authorities said.

Supreme Court decisions made in the 2008-09 term

The Associated Press - ‎2 hours ago‎
Some of the significant cases the Supreme Court decided in its 2008-09 term: REVERSE DISCRIMINATION The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn.

Panel wants openly gay guardsman discharged

San Francisco Chronicle - Joe Garofoli - ‎2 hours ago‎
A military review panel recommended Tuesday that National Guard Lt. Dan Choi, the gay Arabic translator who became a national figure in fighting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy after declaring his sexuality on television, be discharged ...

Palin: I'd come out ahead in run against Obama

The Associated Press - Mary Pemberton - ‎59 minutes ago‎
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she'd come out ahead if she went one-on-one with fellow jogger President Barack Obama in a long run.
Palin - The Horror Atlantic Online

Bail denied for LA gang member turned activist

The Associated Press - ‎2 hours ago‎
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge has denied bail for a former Los Angeles gang member turned anti-gang activist who is accused of still participating in a notorious prison gang.
CALIFORNIA BRIEFING Los Angeles Times

Robert Byrd Seeks Second Senate Term

Washington Post - ‎11 hours ago‎
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, (DW.Va.), on his 46 birthday yesterday, announced he will seek a second term. Byrd, who si chairman of the Senate District Appropriation subcommittee, was elected to the Senate in 1958.
Talkline Host Hoppy Kercheval West Virginia MetroNews

Online Tool Will Track US Tech Spending

New York Times - Steve Lohr - ‎7 hours ago‎
The Obama administration introduced online tools on Tuesday that will track and analyze the more than $70 billion a year that the federal government spends on information technology.

House GOP targets freshman Democrat in new ad

CNN - Mark Preston - ‎3 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republicans will target freshman Rep. Tom Perriello in a new television commercial that criticizes the Virginia Democrat for his recent vote in favor of controversial energy reform legislation.

Obama Cabinet Plans a Listening Tour of Rural America

New York Times - Kate Phillips - ‎7 hours ago‎
The White House announced this afternoon that President Obama has directed many members of his Cabinet to begin what it describes as a “listening tour” of rural America this summer, beginning on Wednesday just outside Erie, Pa.

$83 million cut won't end Oakland budget pain

San Francisco Chronicle - Matthai Kuruvila - ‎1 hour ago‎
Oakland's City Council whittled and slashed $83 million from the city budget Tuesday night, ending a months-long battle among council members, the mayor, unions and residents.

SF mayor keeps security cost secret from supe

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎1 hour ago‎
If the cost of protecting the president of the United States is public, then why not the cost of protecting San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom - both at home and on the campaign trail as he runs for governor?

Pension laws pare police, fire rolls

Boston Globe - Michael LevensonDonovan Slack - ‎5 hours ago‎
This week's rash of retirements by Boston firefighters seeking disability pensions is but one part of a wave of such departures across Massachusetts, as a pair of new state laws that could greatly diminish the ...

Accused museum shooter still can't come to court

The Associated Press - ‎15 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors say a white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to come to court.

Perry vows support for private investment in toll roads

Houston Chronicle - Peggy Fikac - ‎5 hours ago‎
AUSTIN - The special legislative session that starts today includes measures to allow private companies to build more toll roads across the state - an idea opponents have dubbed “the largest ...

State lawmakers enter BART contract fray

San Francisco Chronicle - Rachel Gordon - ‎1 hour ago‎
Fifteen state legislators from the Bay Area have asked BART management to tamp down the hard-line position taken with its unionized workforce during labor negotiations.
Dear BART, please avoid a strike The San Francisco Examiner

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