Senate close to restoring jobless benefits (AP)

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In this June 28, 2010 photo, job seekers wait in line to attend at a National Career Fair in San Francisco. New applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week as General Motors and other manufacturers skipped their usual summer shutdowns.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP – More than 2 million workers who have been laid off for long stretches could get their unemployment benefits restored as early as next week.

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W.Va. gov. taps ex-aide for Sen. Byrd seat (AP)

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FILE- This Tuesday July 5, 2009 file photo shows Carte Goodwin, who was West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin's General Council, at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Tuesday, July 5, 2005. Goodwin will be Gov. Joe Manchin's temporary appointee to the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd's seat. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, File)AP – Gov. Joe Manchin is tapping former chief counsel Carte Goodwin, a member of a prominent West Virginia family, to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Democratic officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

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Congress passes stiff financial reform bill (AP)

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, reaches out to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., left, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right after signing the financial reform legislation bill during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – In the end, it’s only a beginning.

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Obama’s immigration push: Dems risk losing midterm votes (Time.com)

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Time.com – The issue hurt Republicans in the past few years, but now Democrats are worried it could turn around to bite them [more...]

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Sarah Palin in 2012? Why she’s for real (Time.com)

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Former Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin gives a speech in Las Vegas in May 2010. Palin's daughter is to marry her sometime boyfriend, father of her infant son and nemesis of her mother -- who had not been told of the engagement, Us magazine reported.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)Time.com – She is raising money, backing candidates and touting a Web video designed to make her a force in the 2010 midterms and beyond

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