| Graham predicts Sotomayor OK 'barring meltdown' (AP) | Top |
| AP - Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a Hispanic pioneer well qualified for the Supreme Court on Monday, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama's views as well at the start of confirmation hearings. |
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| More storms threaten Monday shuttle launch attempt (AP) | Top |
| AP - NASA faced the prospect of more stormy weather Monday as it tried for the fifth time to launch shuttle Endeavour to the international space station. |
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| Police eye wife in Gatti's death, rule out nothing (AP) | Top |
| AP - Police investigating the death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti are working on the assumption his wife strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly slept. |
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| Over the Heads of Congress: For Obama to Get Healthcare/Energy, Push Must Now Come to Shove (HuffingtonPost.com) | Top |
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| Obama team sees jobs growth in health, environment (Reuters) | Top |
| Reuters - Jobs in the healthcare and environmental sectors are growing at a faster rate than those of the U.S. economy as a whole, President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers will say a report to be released on Monday. |
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| China officials: Police kill 2 Uighur men, wound 1 (AP) | Top |
| AP - Police fatally shot two Uighur men and wounded a third Monday in western China, where violence has persisted to flare despite the massive numbers of troops sent to restore calm more than a week after deadly ethnic rioting. |
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| Obama chooses Ala doctor as next surgeon general (AP) | Top |
| AP - President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, choosing a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. |
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| Bivens out as LPGA Tour commissioner (AP) | Top |
| AP - Carolyn Bivens is out as commissioner of the LPGA Tour, and Marsha Evans will serve as acting commissioner while the organization looks for a replacement. |
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| Holder Launches Torture-Inquiry Trial Balloon (The Nation) | Top |
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