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  • **FILE** Sen. Jon Kyl (Getty Images)

    Inside the Beltway

    Imagine a recent meeting between President Obama and Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl, talking border issues in the privacy of the Oval Office.


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Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff was approached by White House officials about his Senate race.

    EDITORIAL: Sestak-Romanoff scandal persists

    The liberal media may have lost interest in the Obama administration's sleazy job offers to two potential Senate candidates, but the White House shouldn't breathe too easily just yet. Republican congressmen and alternative media remain on the hunt for answers, and for justice.


  • Doug MacGinnitie, a candidate for Georgia secretary of state, shows off his application on an iPhone in Atlanta on Friday. Mr. MacGinnitie had a friend create an iPhone application so supporters can follow his campaign and make contributions. (Associated Press)

    Apps made to help political hopefuls

    Running for office? You can make an app for that.


  • Illustration: US/China

    CHELLANEY: China's mastery of America's domain

    Success breeds confidence, and rapid success spawns arrogance. That, in a nutshell, is the China problem facing Asian states and the West. But no country faces a bigger dilemma on China than the United States because the present American policy simply isn't advancing its objectives.


  • RIEDL: Five ways to tackle spending and deficits

    When Gallup recently polled Americans on the biggest threat to America's future well-being, the escalating national debt tied terrorism at the top.


  • Workers vacuum up oil that has collected on marsh grass in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, June 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    La. companies ask judge to end drilling moratorium

    Companies that ferry people and supplies to offshore oil rigs asked a federal judge Monday to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in the aftermath of the massive Gulf spill.


  • An absentee father "leaves a hole in a child's life," President Obama says Monday in Anacostia while announcing a mentoring program for fathers, including job training and violence prevention, and initiatives to help ex-offenders return to parenting. (Associated Press)

    Obama: Being dad most important role

    Being a good father is "the most important job," President Obama said Monday as he unveiled a series of initiatives to help American dads engage in responsible parenting.


  • ** FILE ** Kenneth Feinberg

    Gulf paymaster: People are in 'desperate' shape

    The man President Obama picked to run the $20 billion Gulf oil spill damage fund said Monday that many people are in "desperate financial straits" and need immediate relief.


  • A Palestinian child stands on a side street in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Monday, June 21, 2010. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat pressed ahead Monday with a contentious plan to raze 22 illegally built Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center that Palestinians fear would tighten Israel's grip on the city's contested eastern sector. The site, called al-Bustan, is a section of the larger neighborhood of Silwan, which is home to some 50,000 Palestinians and 70 Jewish families. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

    Jerusalem revives plan to raze Palestinian houses

    Jerusalem's mayor pressed ahead Monday with a plan to raze 22 Palestinian houses in east Jerusalem to make room for an Israeli tourist center, a decision that could stir new tensions in the divided city and put Israel in conflict with the Obama administration.


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