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NBC: Obama to name Kagan for high court — Kagan, 50, is currently solicitor general; would be court's third woman — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News' Pete Williams reported late Sunday night.
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Obama Is Said to Choose Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country's future …

Where We Go From Here — The Administration plans to identify its nominee in “guidance” at 7:20 tomorrow morning, with a formal announcement by the President at 10 a.m. — If the nominee is Elena Kagan, then Mike Allen of Politico will go down as the reporter with the best information on the Administration's thinking, bar none.


Obama picks Kagan for Court — President Barack Obama will announce Monday that he has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his second nominee to the Supreme Court, according to an administration official. — If confirmed, the former Harvard Law School dean would be the first justice …

AP: Obama Taps Elena Kagan for Supreme Court — Associated Press Reporting Solicitor General Kagan to Be Fourth Woman Nominated to Supreme Court — President Obama has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press.

The Night Beat: Kagan It Is — At 11:00 a.m. ET, President Obama will introduce his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, as his choice for associate justice of the Supreme Court. The pro-forma criticism will come from the right; the more interesting response will be from the left …


Elena Kagan said to be Obama's Supreme Court pick — President Obama plans to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, sources said late Sunday night. — Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, would become the fourth woman to serve on the high court …

AP source: Obama chooses Kagan for Supreme Court
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Will Janet Napolitano Be Fired For Times Square Incompetence? — Attorney General Eric Holder tells Jake Tapper this morning that alleged Times Square bombing screwup Faisal Shahzad was facilitated, financed and working under the direction of the Pakistani Taliban.
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E.U. Details $957 Billion Rescue Package — BRUSSELS — European leaders, pressured by sliding markets and doubts over their ability to act decisively, agreed on Monday to provide a huge rescue package of nearly $1 trillion in a sweeping effort to combat the debt crisis that has engulfed Europe and threatened markets around the world.
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EU Preps $645 Billion Fund to Fight ‘Wolfpack,’ Debt Crisis — European Union finance ministers moved toward agreement on an unprecedented loan package worth at least $645 billion to prevent Greece's fiscal woes from triggering a broader sovereign-debt crisis and shattering confidence in the euro.
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Rig Owner Had Rising Tally of Accidents — The sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which triggered the spill spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, caught the energy world by surprise. The operator, Transocean Ltd., is a giant in the brave new world of drilling for oil in deep waters far offshore.
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Religious right can lie about gay community without George Rekers — While George Rekers has pretty much destroyed his own credibility as an “expert” on the lgbt community, religious right groups who utilized his studies probably aren' t worried about losing him as a resource.


Laura Bush doesn't miss the stress — Former first lady Laura Bush says a surprising “sort of buoyancy” kicked in a few days after she returned to Texas after her eight years in the White House — a vivid feeling of relief from the post-Sept. 11 pressure cooker.
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Obama bemoans ‘diversions’ of IPod, Xbox era — HAMPTON, Virginia — US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.


Obama makes personal diplomacy part of Afghan strategy — President Obama has bluntly instructed his national security team to treat Afghan President Hamid Karzai with more public respect, after a recent round of heavy-handed statements by U.S. officials and other setbacks infuriated …
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Tensions between Eikenberry, McChrystal will be focus of their Washington visit
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