Obama tells seniors health bill will work for them (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors, launching a defense of his presidency’s biggest accomplishment as the election season gets under way and the Gulf oil spill dominates news.

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Health care concession riles left; right unmoved (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama’s weekend concession on a health care “government option” drew complaints from liberals and scarce interest from Republicans and other critics on Monday, a fresh sign of the daunting challenge in finding middle ground in an increasingly partisan political struggle.

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Deal with ‘Blue Dogs’ sets up health care vote (AP)

AP - After weeks of turmoil, House Democrats reached a shaky peace with the party’s rebellious rank-and-file conservatives Wednesday and cleared the way for a vote in September on sweeping health care legislation. Bipartisan Senate negotiators reported progress, too, on a bill said to extend coverage to 95 percent of all Americans without raising federal deficits

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Deadline broken, talks continue for health bill (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama is likening overhaul of the nation’s health care system to one of the government’s greatest triumphs: the NASA program that landed astronauts on the moon 40 years ago.

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SC gov’s revelations befuddle residents, lawmakers (AP)

AP - South Carolina residents — and the simply curious around the world — have watched Gov. Mark Sanford’s lovelorn saga unfold, the central character spewing an odd script that would seem more appropriate for a soap opera than state government.

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Emotion, few details, in Obama’s health care pitch (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama wanted to put a human face on his plans to overhaul health care, and a Virginia supporter did just that Wednesday. Fighting back tears, Debby Smith, 53, told Obama of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job.

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Teen clung to Comoros plane wreckage for 13 hours (AP)

AP - The lone survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash, who clung to wreckage for 13 hours before being rescued, lay in a hospital bed with a broken collarbone Wednesday, asking for little — except for a chance to see her mother.

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Officials: Escaped pet python strangled Fla. child (AP)

AP - A 12-foot pet Burmese python broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said.

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Obama challenges GOP critics on health care plan (AP)

AP - Undertaking a new and aggressive push to enact health reform this year, President Barack Obama bluntly challenged Republican critics on Thursday to put forward their own plan to expand coverage to the uninsured and help struggling families afford care.

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Wright says ‘Jews’ keeping him from Obama (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is blaming “them Jews” for keeping him from speaking to the president. Wright, the former pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, said he hasn’t spoken to Obama since he became president

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