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• Obama invites congressional leadership to dinner
• Labor Dept. honors Memphis sanitations workers
• Democrats launch outside fundraising group
• AP images form intricate tapestry of festive day
• Obama taps ambassador to Sweden as finance chair
• Prosecutor: Kansas man ordered killings in Rwanda
• Obama invites congressional leadership to dinner
• Casinos sense opening in online poker indictments
• AP: Public defense again sought for Demjanjuk
• Alabama woman uses Facebook to ID tornado debris
• No verdict after Day 5 at NY insider trading trial
• Vietnam-era Green Beret finally returns home
• AD:
• In flip, no ponchos required of some Ohio voters
• Brewer OKs Ariz. bill for tea party license plate
• Obama: 'I've never seen devastation like this'
• Ala. town faces power outage, body bag shortage
• Leaking Mass. house dials 911 for help
• White House chief usher heads to Homeland Security
• Ex-media mogul Black sells Palm Beach mansion

Obama invites congressional leadership to dinner Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:40 PM PDT President Barack Obama has invited the bipartisan congressional leadership and key committee leaders to dinner Monday at the White House, an overture in the midst of partisan clashes over spending and health care.

Labor Dept. honors Memphis sanitations workers Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:40 PM PDT Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is honoring the 1,300 black workers who took part in the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968 with a place in the agency's Labor Hall of Fame.

Democrats launch outside fundraising group Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:30 PM PDT Democratic strategists close to President Barack Obama have launched an outside fundraising group to support his re-election, financed in part by the kind of large, undisclosed contributions the president has criticized.

AP images form intricate tapestry of festive day Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:30 PM PDT Cover your ears, little one. The grown-ups are kissing. A picture of Grace van Cutsem, the 3-year-old bridesmaid covering her ears as Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge kissed on the Buckingham Palace balcony, is one of hundreds of images of the royal wedding day captured by Associated Press photographers who blanketed London during Friday's festivities.

Obama taps ambassador to Sweden as finance chair Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:24 PM PDT President Barack Obama has tapped a top fundraiser now serving as ambassador to Sweden to be his 2012 campaign finance chairman.

Prosecutor: Kansas man ordered killings in Rwanda Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:50 AM PDT A federal prosecutor has told jurors that a Kansas man ordered killings during Rwanda's 1994 genocide then lied about it when he immigrated to the U.S.

Obama invites congressional leadership to dinner Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:50 AM PDT President Barack Obama has invited the bipartisan congressional leadership and key committee leaders to dinner Monday at the White House, an overture in the midst of partisan clashes over spending and health care.

Casinos sense opening in online poker indictments Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:20 AM PDT The indictments that led to three major online poker companies shuttering U.S. operations have provided an opening for American casinos to cash in on an industry worth an untold billions of dollars.

AP: Public defense again sought for Demjanjuk Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:20 AM PDT The federal public defender's office in Cleveland has filed a motion asking to be re-appointed as co-counsel for alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk).

Alabama woman uses Facebook to ID tornado debris Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:10 AM PDT An Alabama woman is gathering lost mementos from this week's storms and putting them out for the owners to find -- on Facebook.

No verdict after Day 5 at NY insider trading trial Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:50 AM PDT A New York City jury has ended a short day of deliberations without a verdict at the biggest ever hedge-fund insider trading trial.

Vietnam-era Green Beret finally returns home Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:40 AM PDT An Army soldier who went missing on a mission in Laos during the Vietnam War will be buried this weekend in North Carolina.

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In flip, no ponchos required of some Ohio voters Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:30 AM PDT An Ohio elections board has dropped a plan to give voters a poncho to cover up if they come to the polls next month wearing clothing that promotes local schools.

Brewer OKs Ariz. bill for tea party license plate Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:30 AM PDT Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed three bills for 11 new special license plates, including one to commemorate the tea party.

Obama: 'I've never seen devastation like this' Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:20 AM PDT President Barack Obama is touring storm-wracked neighborhoods and commercial sections of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and talking to survivors. He says he's "never seen devastation like this."

Ala. town faces power outage, body bag shortage Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:30 AM PDT Officials in an Alabama town demolished by tornadoes say they need everything from body bags to portable showers and tents.

Leaking Mass. house dials 911 for help Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:30 AM PDT After months of enduring a leaking pipe that buckled its floors and sagged its ceilings, an empty Massachusetts house somehow called police for help.

White House chief usher heads to Homeland Security Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:20 AM PDT The retired Coast Guard admiral who has served as chief White House usher for the past four years is taking a senior post at one of the Department of Homeland Security's largest agencies.

Ex-media mogul Black sells Palm Beach mansion Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:10 AM PDT Former media mogul Conrad Black has sold his oceanfront Palm Beach mansion for more than $23 million.

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