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SC GOP CHAIR AGAIN SUGGESTS SANFORD NEEDS TO GOFor the second day in a row, South Carolina GOP chairwoman Karen Floyd suggested the time has come for Mark Sanford to resign.

PAYROLLS FALL MORE THAN FORECAST, UNEMPLOYMENT RISESEmployers in the U.S. cut 467,000 jobs in June, the unemployment rate rose and hourly earnings stagnated, offering little evidence the Obama administration’s stimulus package is shoring up the labor market.

FRANKEN TO BE SWORN IN TUESDAYSenator-elect Al Franken will meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and be sworn in Tuesday, according to Reid's office.

RASMUSSEN: OBAMA APPROVAL INDEX FALLS BELOW ZEROThe Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday gives Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -2.

COLEMAN CONCEDESRepublican Norm Coleman is addressing supporters in St. Paul following a Minnesota Supreme Court decision today that found Democrat Al Franken has won the election.

MINN. COURT RULES FOR FRANKEN IN SENATE FIGHTThe Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race.

W.HOUSE: OBAMA BELIEVES CAN CLOSE GUANTANAMO BY 2010President Barack Obama believes his 2010 deadline for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is within reach despite difficulties in finding places to relocate detainees, the White House said Monday.

SUPREME COURT OVERRULES OBAMA NOMINEE IN RACE BIAS CASEThe U.S. Supreme Court overruled President Barack Obama's high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Monday in an important race discrimination case, but the White House remained confident she would be approved.

PERSISTENCE IS KEY ON ENERGYFor the third day in a row since the House of Representatives passed a landmark climate and energy bill, President Obama continued to press the Senate to do the same and took the opportunity to announce new efficiency standards for lighting.

CONGRESS EYES MARKET IMPACT OF SPECULATORSCongress is eyeing ways to make sure speculative trading helps commodity markets rather than distorting pricing signals, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a Reuters Television interview Monday.

OBAMA COULD MULL SECOND STIMULUS IF NEEDED: ADVISERPresident Barack Obama could discuss a second stimulus package to boost the economy if needed, but at the moment no more new money looks necessary, a top White House adviser said on Sunday.

OBAMA OPPOSES TRADE SANCTIONS IN CLIMATE BILL President Obama on Sunday praised the energy bill passed by the House late last week as an “extraordinary first step,” but he spoke out against a provision that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept limits on global warming pol

HONDURAS DEFENDS ITS DEMOCRACYHugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution.

OBAMA SIGNS CASH-FOR-CLUNKERS BILLNo longer Cash-for-Clunkers, the program is now called the Car Allowance Rebate System. The program pays consumers up to $4,500 in credit for trading in their cars or trucks for those that are more fuel efficient.

OBAMA URGES SENATORS TO BACK CAP AND TRADE BILLPresident Obama called on senators to disregard what he called the "misinformation" offered by critics of his energy bill, which passed the House of Representatives late Friday night despite GOP predictions that it will further damage the economy.

BOEHNER: CLIMATE BILL A 'PILE OF S--T'Minority Leader John Boehner had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday.

OBAMA HARSHLY CONDEMNS IRAN CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTERSPresident Barack Obama toughened his criticism of Iran on Tuesday for its crackdown on anti-government protesters, harshly condemning the violence and declaring scenes of death in Tehran "heartbreaking."

SCANDAL BURDENS S. CAROLINA GOVERNOR IN ECONOMIC TASKThe U.S. state of South Carolina faces economic problems that would tax any governor, let alone one embroiled in a sex scandal and fighting for his political survival, economists and politicians said on Friday.

OBAMA AND CONGRESS CLASH ON HOW TO PAY FOR HEALTH CAREIt has become the trillion-dollar question: can President Obama find that much in spending cuts and tax increases to keep his campaign promise to overhaul the health care system, without adding to already huge deficits?

SOUTH TO BOOST SURGICAL STRIKE CAPABILITY AGAINST NORTHThe South Korean military plans to speed up efforts to deploy ground, air and naval weapons systems for use in strikes against key facilities in North Korea in the event of war, the Ministry of National Defense said Friday.

OBAMA SIGNS $106 BILLION BILL FOR IRAQ, AFGHAN WARSPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a $106 billion measure to fulfill his plans to wind down the war in Iraq and ramp up operations in Afghanistan where fighting against militants is intensifying.

OBAMA OPENED "WINDOW OF HOPE" SAYS ARAB LEAGUEThe Arab League said on Wednesday it saw a "window of hope" for Middle East peace and Arab states would respond positively to U.S. President Barack Obama's vision for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict.

SC GOV. MARK SANFORD WILL FIND TOUGH TRAIL AT HOMESouth Carolina's governor once cited "moral legitimacy" when he was a congressman voting for President Bill Clinton's impeachment. He became a darling of fiscal conservatives over his ideological opposition to federal stimulus cash.

HOUSE PANEL PLANS FINANCIAL SAFETY BILL IN JULYRepresentative Barney Frank said on Wednesday that the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee which he chairs will write legislation in July based on the Obama administration's proposal to create a consumer financial protection agency.

OBAMA SAYS "ABSOLUTELY" WILL REFORM HEALTH IN 2009 President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Wednesday that he "absolutely" will get healthcare reform completed in 2009 but declined to say what the final package would eventually look like.

NKOREA THREATENS US; WORLD ANTICIPATES MISSILE North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.

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