General Motors, the humbled auto giant that has been part of American life for more than 100 years, will file for bankruptcy protection on Monday in a deal that will give taxpayers a 60 percent ownership stake and expand the government’s reach into big business.
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Debates over health care, energy, spending and a Supreme Court nomination loomed as Congress returned from a recess.
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Politico – Even as it gets set to announce the bankruptcy of General Motors Monday, the Obama administration is struggling to set parameters on how it will act after taking a 60 percent stake in the new company that emerges – and now that it has become the owner of a significant swath of Corporate America.
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Mark Jackson, center, gives a tour of the target bay of the National Ignition Facility to Stephen Eckstrand, left, of the U.S. Department of Energy at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore , Calif., Friday, May 29, 2009.
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AP – Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries in a move welcomed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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AP – President Barack Obama says he is shocked and outraged over the killing of an abortion provider at a Kansas church.
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Politico – Obama topped off months of small rewards Pennsylvania, the state that helped propel him to the presidency, with a big one on Thursday—the administration’s announcement that it had selected Pittsburgh to host next year’s G-20 Summit, which will give a big economic boost and international spotlight to the once-industrial city.
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Politico – “Judicial activism” has been the catchphrase for conservative resistance to Democratic judicial nominees, but some opponents of Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination are injecting another term – “Legal Realism” – into the fight.
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Politico – As Republicans continue to hammer Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for a 2001 assertion that’s become known as the “wise Latina” remark, her backers are struggling to come up with a single coherent line of defense.
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WASHINGTON – When he was elected president, Barack Obama inherited Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader; the choice was not in his hands.
AP – A leading Democratic senator says that President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is “virtually filibuster-proof” when his colleagues look at her record.
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AP – Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq ? that’s what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia say they want to hear from President Barack Obama this week when he addresses them from this Arab capital.
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