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Obama salutes jazz great Brubeck at Kennedy Center

AP - 9 minutes ago

Nearly 40 years ago, a Kenyan father was visiting his son in Hawaii and took him to his first jazz concert. The boy was Barack Obama and the performer was jazz great Dave Brubeck.

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Iraqis reach last-minute election deal
McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 5:36 pm ET
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers reached a minutes-to-midnight deal late Sunday, clearing a path to national elections early next year that are seen as crucial to a smooth U.S. troop withdrawal.
Obama-mania lives on in Europe, but results wanted
San Francisco Chronicle - Sun Dec 6, 9:54 pm ET
Europeans might have reason to feel disappointed with Barack Obama. The American president arrives this week in Europe to pick up his Nobel Peace prize just as he has nearly doubled the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan. This fall, Obama found plenty of time...
UN climate science head hopes for more US action
AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 5:26 pm ET
"There is scope for going above what is going to be legislated," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told The Associated Press on the eve of the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen.
Harper Says Global Recovery Must Precede Environment (Update1)
Bloomberg - 2 hours 1 minutes ago
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he will use Canada’s co-chairmanship of next year’s Group of 20 countries meeting to urge members to put economic recovery before efforts to protect the environment.
Obama tries to rally Senate Dems
Washington Post - Sun Dec 6, 5:21 pm ET
CAPITOL BRIEFING | President makes a rare Sunday visit to the Hill to urge caucus to pull together.
Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama's Afghan Surge
Time Magazine - Sun Dec 6, 5:18 pm ET
Viewpoint: There's no shortage of hope in the President's plan to turn Afghanistan around. Or is it wishful thinking?
U.S. information on bin Laden remains shaky
USA Today - Sun Dec 6, 5:11 pm ET
Obama administration officials seemed to give conflicting assessments about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts.
Obama Rallies Senate Democrats on Health-Care Plan (Correct)
Bloomberg - Sun Dec 6, 4:59 pm ET
(Corrects quote in second paragraph). Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama urged Senate Democrats today to agree on health legislation as lawmakers struggle to resolve disputes over issues including a proposed government-run insurance plan.
Obama meets with Senate Dems on healthcare
UPI - Sun Dec 6, 4:58 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama met with Senate Democrats in Washington Sunday on a healthcare bill bogged down by abortion, a public option and a Medicare panel.
Good grief!
Everett Herald - 26 minutes ago
The Conspiracy Theorist is in: A mayor in Tennessee protested on Facebook when President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday on Afghanistan preempted the broadcast of the holiday classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” saying the president sought to block the cartoon's Christian message because he is a Muslim.
Palin’s Iowa Book Tour Raises Whisper of Presidential Candidacy
Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 4:41 pm ET
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Sarah Palin, promoting her memoir, made her first trip to Iowa since she ran last year as the vice- presidential candidate on the losing Republican ticket.
Obama aide: US still lacks good intel on bin Laden
AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 4:39 pm ET
Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
De Niro, Brooks, Springsteen Honored at Kennedy Center Honors
E! Online - Sun Dec 6, 8:46 pm ET
Mel Brooks, Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen partied Washington D.C.-style this weekend with President Barack Obama. And they didn't have to party crash to do...
Ending Pakistan havens vital to Afghan effort: US
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 4:16 pm ET
The United States said Sunday it was pressing Pakistan to move against Taliban and Al-Qaeda sanctuaries in its territory, saying success in Afghanistan depended on disrupting the cross-border safe havens.
Obama Rallies Senate Democrats to Agree on Health-Care Plan
Bloomberg - Sun Dec 6, 4:11 pm ET
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama urged Senate Democrats today to agree on health legislation as lawmakers struggle to resolve disputes over issues including a proposed government-run insurance plan.