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  1. President Barack Obama speaks during the 100th anniversary convention of the NAACP, Thursday, July 16, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
    Obama: Civil rights leaders paved way for him AP - Fri Jul 17, 12:55 AM ET

    NEW YORK - President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling the NAACP that their sacrifice "began the journey that has led me here." The nation's first black president bluntly warned, though, that racial barriers persist.

  2. A U.S. Air Force F-22 fighter jet flies over Kadena U.S. Air Force Base on Okinawa in this May 30, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/Files
    Pentagon, Congress square off over money for jets AP - Thu Jul 16, 10:05 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Pentagon and Congress all but dared each other Thursday to a showdown over funding for fighter jets in a multimillion-dollar squabble that each side said they were fighting in the interests of U.S. security.

  3. Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor answers questions during her fourth and final day of testimony at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed
    Sotomayor on her way; GOP pledges quick court vote AP - Fri Jul 17, 12:54 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation's first Hispanic justice Thursday, encouraged by Republican promises of a quick vote and cheered on by a Democratic senator's challenge to take on the Supreme Court's conservative wing when she arrives.

  4. FILE -- In this April 30, 2008 file photo, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks during a Vickers Lecture at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
    How Sotomayor's comments compare to Roberts, Alito AP - Thu Jul 16, 2:24 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominees rarely take risky or controversial positions when in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sonia Sotomayor is no exception.

  5. FILE -- In this June 9, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., talks as he rides the subway from the Capitol to Senate office buildings following the weekly policy luncheons, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
    Health care overhaul bill has its ups and downs AP - 32 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Up one day. Down the next. Sometimes legislation to remake the nation's health care system moves in both directions at once.

  6. Senate Judiciary Committee members, from left, chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 25, 2009, before the committee's hearing on hate crime legislation. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
    Hate crimes may cover gender, sexual orientation AP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday approved the most sweeping expansion of federal hate crimes law since Congress responded four decades ago to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  7. From left, Sgt. John Oyston, Second Lt. Cole Henderson and Spc. Brian Smith collect themselves before Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrives to conduct a town hall meeting with 200 soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY, Thursday, July 16, 2009.  Gates said he could send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan than initially expected and is considering increasing the  number of soldiers in the Army. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)
    Pentagon eyes plan to increase Army by 30,000 AP - Thu Jul 16, 8:27 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is considering a plan to add 30,000 soldiers to the Army to bolster a force depleted by a growing number of troops who are wounded, stressed or for other reasons cannot deploy with their units.

  8. New Haven, Conn. firefighters Frank Ricci, left, and Ben Vargas, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 16, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Ricci was the lead plaintiff in Ricci vs. DeStefano, the reverse discrimination lawsuit that was overturned by the Supreme Court in his favor. Sotomayor was the appellate judge who originally ruled against them. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    Firefighter says Sotomayor's ruling divides people AP - Thu Jul 16, 9:41 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Frank Ricci, the white firefighter who recently won his reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court, said Thursday that an unfavorable ruling by Sonia Sotomayor and other judges "divides people who don't wish to be divided along racial lines." Ricci and his firefighting colleague from New Haven, Conn., Lt.