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July 29, 2009
• Obama Holds Health Care Town Hall Meeting in Virginia; 8th Member of Homegrown Terror Cell Sought; Blue Dog Democrats Concerned about Health Care Reform Cost; Fat Food Tax; New Jersey Corruption Crackdown; Extreme Drought in Texas; Police Search Home of Jackson's Doctor


July 28, 2009
• Jackson Doctor Under Investigation; Interview With Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow; Feds Bust Alleged North Carolina Terror Ring; New Transcripts from Colgan Air Crash Released; NFL Allows Michael Vick to Play Again
• Obama's Speech to AARP; Sonia Sotomayor Gets One Step Closer to Supreme Court Confirmation; Push Is On to Reactiviate Cold Cases from Civil Rights Era; Grocery Store Employee Fired After Chasing Down Purse Snatcher
• Obama's AARP Speech; Senate Judiciary Committee Gives Thumbs Up to Sotomayor; 7 Arrested in Homegrown Terror Plot; Police Raid Jackson's Doctor's Office, Home
• Striking New Twist in Michael Jackson Death Investigation; Health Care Reform Debate Intensifies; How Stimulus Dollars are Being Spent; Blazing a New Trail in Peace Effort; Health Care Reform and You; Cycling Stars' War of Words
• Jackson's Doctor Administered Powerful Sedative; Congress Still Negotiating Health Care Reform; U.S. Rethinking Role in Iraq; Caller in Gates Arrest Did Not Name Race; Senate Judiciary Committee Recommends Sotomayor Confirmation
• Sotomayor Awaits Confirmation Hearing; Michael Jackson's Death Investigation; Rising Cost of Obesity Pushing Up Health Care Costs; Undocumented Immigrant Deported by Hospital; What Role Will Illegal Immigrants Play in Health Care Reform?; Home Prices May Be Stablizing; Defense Secretary Gates Drops into Iraq Unexpectedly; The Dangers of Texting While Driving; Plans for Research Lab in Kansas Worry Some
• Home Prices Monthly Rise for the First Time in Three Years; Second Day of U.S.-China Talks; Bargain-Hunting Time; "Bikini Bandit" Locked Up; Talks with the Taliban


July 27, 2009
• Is the Health Care Debate Losing Steam?; Governor Palin Says Goodbye; The Tense Relationship Between U.S. and China; Did Obama Defame Doctors?; Discussing Palin's Future
• Judging Sonia Sotomayor; Delay on Health CareVote; Horrors of War Come Home; Global Outcry Over Raped Girl; City of Cambridge Hopes to Learn From Arrest of Professor; Some Towns Still Waiting on Stimulus Funds; Housing Market Shows Promising Signs of Revival; How Marines Try to Avoid IEDs
• New Role for U.S. Troops in Iraq; Cambridge Police Release 911 Tapes, Calls of Gates Arrest; Deadlines Slip, Haggling Continues on Health Care; New York Greeters Show Local Flavor; Trading Clunkers for Cash: Will It Help Auto Industry?; One Army Bases's Struggle with PTSD; Armstrong Happy with Third-Place Finish
• Cambridge Police Department Holds News Conference; Following the Federal Stimulus Money; Pushing out the Taliban; Health Care Push and Pullback; N.J. Homebuilder Holds On; Thousands Attend Free Clinic
• Big Jump in New Home Sales; President's Health Reform Push; Young, Sick and Uninsured; Militaries Moving Toward Unmanned Planes; Home Sales Stats Boosted by Foreclosures; What's Next for Citizen Palin?; Talks with China Begin
• Where Did Economic Stimulus Funds Go?; Thousands Flooded Free Clinic in Virginia This Weekend; Link Between Lack of Sleep and Current Economy; New Home Sales for June Up 11 Percent; IEDs Pose Some of Biggest Threats to Marines in Afghanistan; The Other Side of the Goldman Custody Battle
• High-Level Talks Between the U.S. and China; Health Care Reform Battle, Possible Silver Lining to Recession; Obama Speaks at First Meeting of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the United States and China


July 26, 2009
• Gov. Palin Steps Aside; Reaction to Biden's Comments on Russia; India Launches Nuclear Sub; Beer With the President; America's Issues With Race; Sophia Danenberg: On Top of the World; No Yellow Jersey for Armstrong
• Progress Slowing on Health Care Reform; Sarah Palin Set to Resign as Alaska Governor; French President Sarkozy Hospitalized
• Palin Officially Resigns as Alaska Governor; Clinton Defends White House Policy Amid Biden Comments About Russia; White House Keeps Health Care Pressure on Congress; A 2nd Cemetery Allegedly Conducting Bad Business; Sarah Palin Prepares for Final Speech as Governor; Lance Armstrong Finishes Third in Tour de France; The Marketability of 2 NFL Quarterbacks is Tested; Few African-American Teens Experience Marriage Through Family
• Three-Time Champion Boxer Vernon Forrest is Dead; FBI Tracks Down One of Its Most Wanted Suspects; Battle on Health Care Rages On; Sarah Palin Completes Last Day in Office


July 25, 2009
• Vice President Biden Speaks Out on Russia; Obama Pitches Health Care Plan to Main Street; Iran Protests Across the Globe; Pres. Obama Calls Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley; Racial Profiling in America: Real or Imagined?; Cambridge Cops Support Their Own; Author E. Lynn Harris Dies
• Biden Criticizes Russia; Small Business Owners Wary About Health Care Reform; Gov. Palin Bids Farewell; Obama Invites Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley to the White House
• Obama Calls Professor, Arresting Officer; Small Business Owners Wary of Health Care Reform; President Obama's Busy Week; Demonstrations Around World in Support of Iranian Protesters; Gen. Petraeus Says Iraq Still Critical to War on Terror; Man to Be Deported Despite Being Found Not Guilty of Terrorism; Michael Jackson Had Plans to Buy His Own Wonderland
• What U.S. Troops Face in Afghanistan; Poppy Seeds as Currency; More Trouble Bubbles up in Afghanistan; Afghanistan Parliament Passes Laws that Women Fear Will Degrade Their Rights Further. The Afghanistan War Becomes Obama's War
• Small Business Focus of Health Care Reform Debate; Afghanistan War Heats Up; Helping Young African-American Professionals Break the Glass Ceiling; Protestors Gather Across World, President Call Relieves Tensions, Disabled Children Restrained
• Protestors Gather Across World, President Call Relieves Tensions, Health Care Plan Dispute, Massachusetts Health Care System, Michael Jackson Doctors Investigated
• Crowds to March in Support of Iranian "Green" Opposition; Suicide Bombings in Afghanistan Display Increasing Sophistication; Obama Tries to Solve Issue of Gates' Arrest
• Obama Will Continue Aggressive Health Care Campaign; Obama Invites Professor, Police Officer to White House; Man Arrested on Organ Dealing Charge; Palin Ends Term as Alaska Governor; Michael Jackson Wanted Las Vegas Estate


July 24, 2009
• President Obama Speaks Out on Harvard Arrest; Honduran Exiled Leader Tries to Enter His Country
• Girl Raped, Boys Charged; Democrats Battle Democrats on Health Reform; Millions of Americans Getting a Raise Today; Obama Addresses White House Press Corps About Gates' Arrest
• Battle of Words Continues Over Harvard Prof's Arrest; House Effort to Reform Health Care Stalls; New Jersey Focus of Major Federal Raid; Obama Announces Education Grants; Minimum Wage Increase Affects Small Businesses
• Health Care Battle; Cambridge Police Defend Fellow Officer; Petraeus Assessing Iraq Transition; Alabama Town in Peril; Homeland Security Long Reach
• Senate Leaders Slamming Brakes on Rush to Overhaul Health Care System; Interview With Congressman Eric Cantor; Small Business and the Economy; Officer Defends Gates Arrest
• Minimum Wage Hike Enacted; Health Care Plan Stalled in Congress; Political Figures Arrested in New Jersey; Deadly Month in Afghanistan; Advice on How to Deal with Private Health Insurance Companies
• Congress Delays President Obama's Health Care Plan; Child Gets Trapped in Flaming Car; Controversy over Harvard Professor Heats Up; Health Care Reform Delayed; Palin Leaving Office on Sunday


July 23, 2009
• President Obama Holds Town Hall in Ohio; Weighing In on Obama's Remarks About Arrest of Harvard Professor
• Foreign Students Mistreated by U.S. Hosts; Mayors, Rabbis, Lawmakers Arrested in New Jersey; Health Care Push and Pushback; Obama Town Hall Meeting in Ohio
• Congress Drags Feet on Health-Care Reform; More Allied Forces Killed in Afghanistan; Eight Year Old Girl Brutally Raped by Gang of Boys
• Health Care Reform Road Trip; Negotiations on Health Reform; Health Care and Pre-existing Conditions; How Many Uninsured Are There?; College Grads Head Home; New Jersey Mayors/Officials Arrested; Coffee Lover's New Daily Grind
• Selling Health Care Overhaul; Man With a Mission; Full Speed Ahead for Ford; Book Chronicles Lehman's Fall; Corruption Arrests in NY, NJ
• New Jersey Mayors, Officials Arrested; No Easy Answers on Healthcare; Four Boys Accused of Raping Eight-Year-Old Girl; Renewed Action in Southern Afghanistan; Challenges Blacks Face in Job Market; The Costliest Wheelchair
• President Obama Continues Campaign for Health Care Plan; Mayors, Rabbis Arrested in New York and New Jersey on Corruption Charges; Police Raided Office of Michael Jackson's Former Doctor; New Jersey Major, Officials Arrested; Honoring a Missing Soldier; Military Pioneer


July 22, 2009
• President Obama Meets With Iraqi Prime Minister; McConnell and Boehner Call for President Obama to Scrap Current Bill for Health Care Reform
• Health Care Push and Pushback; Captured by the Enemy; 'Mail to the Chief'; Earthquake Moves New Zealand 30 Centimeters; "Harry and Louise" Are Back; New Details Emerge About Murdered Florida Couple; Monkey Robs Garden Center; Preview of "Black in America 2"
• Hometown Rallies for Captured Soldier; Brooklyn Teens to Visit South Africa on Journey for Change; President Obama Holding Prime-Time Conference About Health Care Reform; Iranians on Hunger Strike Outside of United Nations Headquarters in New York City; Surviving in the Deserts of Afghanistan
• President Obama's Prime-Time News Conference on Health Care Reform; What is a Blue Dog Democrat?; Interview With White House Communications Director Anita Dunn; Battle Over Health Care Reform; Paying for Health Care; Investigators Raid Office of Jackson's Doctor
• President's Health Care Push; Hunger Strike for Iran; 'Black in America 2'; Pelosi Advocates for Health Care Reform Bill
• Senate Bill to Vote on Concealed Weapons; Caring For The Uninsured; Tide Changing on Wall Street; The Education Gap Between Blacks and Whites; Passage of Health Care Reform By August Looks Unlikely; Death Row Inmate's Guilty Verdict Questioned
• President Obama to Make Prime-Time Pitch for Health Care Reform; New Twist in the Killing of Florida Couple; American Bomb- Maker Working for the 'Good Guys'; Obama Meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki; Solution to Racial Barrier; U.S. Marines in Helmand Province


July 21, 2009
• President Makes Hard Push For Health Care Reform; President Obama's American Citizenship Questioned By Some; Questions Swirl Around Capture of Bowe Berghdal
• Cutting Malpractice Costs; California's Financial Mess; Heavenly Show of Solar Eclipse; Airman Loses Legs in Gall Bladder Surgery; Financing Health Care Reform
• U.S., Allies Target Heroin Trade in Afghanistan; Billings Family Moves on After Double Murder; GOP Responds to Obama's Call for Health-Care Reform
• President Obama Speaks on Health Care Reform; Big Cuts, No Tax Hikes in California; $700 Billion of Your Money; Paying to Insure Others; Protesters Attempt Tehran Gathering; Future of F-22 Fighter Jets
• TARP Inspector Worries Bailout Money Being Wasted; Health Care Fight Heats Up; Soldier Taken by Taliban; Calfornia Reaches Budget Deal
• Are Bank Bailout Funds Being Used Appropriately?; President Obama Fights Back Against Critics of Health Care Overhaul Plan; New Study Links Pollution to Lower IQ Scores; The Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites;
• More to the Murder of the Florida Couple; Is Bank Bailout Money Being Wasted and Even Stolen?; A Mother and Her Children Trapped Inside Burning SUV; U.S. War Plane Bombs Poppy Field; New Language Course for Marines Hopes to Yield Speedy Fluency; Preview of "Black in America 2"


July 20, 2009
• Health Care Showdown; Michael Vick Free; CBO Scores Health Care Plan; Taliban Threatens to Kill Captive U.S. Soldier; Wilkerson Says CIA Lies Regularly; Terror Group Recruits Somali-Americans
• Four U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Ohio Boy Sells Toys to Help Family Through Tough Economic Times; Community Buys In and Saves Cafe
• Marines Targeting Heroin Production; Debating Impact of Health Care Reform; Pa. Budget Impasse Affects Worker Pay; Man Accused of Murders in Two Cities; NASA Retires the Shuttle Next Year; The Moon Walk Conspiracy; Pres. Obama Health Care Speech
• Captured Soldier's Family Statement; President's Health Reform Push; Community Buys-in, Saves Cafe; Earnings Season in Full Swing; How Health Reform Affects You; Hospital for the Uninsured
• U.S. Soldier in Enemy Hands; Stopping the Heroin; President Obama's Health Care Push; Bondholders Rescue Main Street Lender; After 40 Years, Moon Landing Still Has Doubters
• First Video of Soldier Captured by Taliban; Wall Street Gets Boost Today; Obama Pushes Congress More for Health Care Reform; Are Homes Bought in Detroit a Good Deal?; New York's Freedom Glory Project Supports Iranian Protesters; The End of Space Shuttle Flights Is Near; Recognizing Depression in Black Women
• Health Care Overhaul; Campaign against Swine Flu; Lone Surviving Gunman in Mumbai Attack Confesses; 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11; Mission to Save Black Men


July 19, 2009
• Military Condemns Release of Soldier Video; Second Chance for Main Street Lender?; Obama's Health Care Plan Gets Pushback in Congress; Politics and Rock & Roll Among Iranians in New York City; 15-Year-Old Flies Cross-Country; Program Trains Young Minorities for Leadership
• Held Captive by the Taliban; Chicago Area Cemetery Scandal; Exchange Student Exploitation?; Fifteen-Year-Old Flies Around the World
• U.S. Soldier in Taliban Video Identified; Helicopter Crash Kills 16 in Afghanistan; Obama Defends Health Care Bill; Watson Fails to Win British Open; Burr Oak Cemetery Attorney Says Plots-for-Pay Not as Bad as Portrayed; Cheap Homes Available in Detroit
• Taliban Releases Video of Captured U.S. Soldier Missing Since June 30; Remembering Walter Cronkite; Giant Squids Invade Waters Off San Diego
• Taliban Releases Video Of U.S. Soldier Held Captive; Pentagon Denounces Video As Exploitation; NASA Moon Walk Videos Perhaps Lost Forever


July 18, 2009
• Man in Custody for Multiple Killings in Alabama, Tennessee; Two Teenagers Shot Outside Chicago Church; Woman is Charged in Florida Killings; Nelson Mandela Celebrates 91st Birthday
• Video Appears to Show Missing U.S. Soldier; Lone Female Suspect in the Billings Killings; Chicago Teens Shot Outside Church; America Mourns Death of Walter Cronkite
• Remembering Walter Cronkite; Should Sotomayor Be Confirmed?; Law Students and Women Calling Themselves 'wise Latina'
• The Life and Times of Walter Cronkite; Obama Addresses NAACP Convention; GOP Will Not Block Sotomayor
• Walter Cronkite Remembered; President Obama Urges Congress to Pass Health Care Reform; Suicide Bombers Attack in Indonesia; African American M en Undertreated for Clinical Depression; New Information on Slain Couple in Florida; Sotomayor Confirmation Vote to Occur on Tuesday
• Indonesia Suicide Bombings; Remembering Walter Cronkite; Graduating Students Discuss Judge Sotomayor
• President Obama Aggressively Pushing for Health Care Reform; At Least 9 Killed in Suicide Bombings in Indonesia; Military Confirms 2 Crewmembers Killed in F-15 Fighter Jet Crash in Afghanistan; Walter Cronkite Dies at 92
• Walter Cronkite is Remembered; President Obama to Urge Congress to Pass Health Care Reform Before August Recess; Blast in Indonesia Kills 53; Sotomayor Hearings Concluded


July 17, 2009
• Explosions Rock Indonesian Hotels; Health Care Reform in Peril?
• Past Problems at Burr Oak Cemetery; Jakarta Bombings; Funeral for Murdered Florida Couple; Health Care Reform Runs into Congressional Snag; Child Movie Star's Autobiography Out; Powerful Iranian Cleric Challenges Iranian Regime
• Bombings at Two Jakarta Hotels; Sotomayor Can Expect Some GOP Support; Marine Ends One Year Rotation as First Female Marine One Pilot; Some Apollo 11 Images Erased; Motive In Florida Couple's Murder Is Still Unclear As Police Remained Tightlipped On The Case; Health Care Reform Hits Congressional Snag
• Finding the Terrorists; Murdered Couple's Funeral Today; Health Reform Hot Topics; Cries for a New Constitution; Gas Prices; Family's Fresh Start; A Positive Spin on the Recession
• Suicide Bombings in Indonesia; Vote Expected Next Week on Sotomayor Nomination; Health Reforms Ups & Downs; Another Arrest Planned in Florida Murders; Protests Continue in Iran
• Working to Solve Health Care Problem; More Jakarta Bombings Details
• Obama Struggles to Gain Support For Health Care Reform; Sotomayor Grilled on Gun Rights; Indonesia Hotel Blasts; Franken's Coming Out Party; Murdered Florida Couple's Funeral Today; New Look at Apollo 11; How to Break Up With Your Bank


July 16, 2009
• Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Continue; New Twists in Florida Murder Investigation; Police Officers Shot in Jersey City; Sotomayor Hearings Continue; Woman Arrested in Connection with Slaying in Pensacola; New Video of Michael Jackson's Burn Injuries Released
• NASA Marks 40th Anniversary of Moon Landing; Foreign Exchange Students Claim Abuse; Day Four of Sotomayor Hearing; Florida Killings About Robbery; Denver Surgery Technician May Have Exposed Patients in Other States to Hepatitis C; Differences Between Senate and House Health Care Bills
• Florida Coupled Murdered, Robbery the Motive; U.S. Military on the Hunt for Missing U.S. Serviceman Captured in Afghanistan; Consumers File Class Action Lawsuit against Babies "R" Us for Price Fixing; Endeavour Headed to Space Station; Foreign Exchange Students Abused in Scranton
• Day Four of Sonia Sotomayor Hearings; Mother's Fight for Health Care Reform; Action on Health Care Reform; Credit Cards and College Students; Veteran Dreams of Opening Pet Pampering Shop
• Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing
• Day Four of Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings; Five Police Officers Wounded in Jersey City Early Morning Shooting
• Day 3 of Questions for Sotomayor; Mom Pushes for Government-Run Health Insurance; Obama to Address NAACP on 100th Anniversary


July 15, 2009
• Sotomayor Hearings Analyzed; Northwest Florida Murder Case Takes a Sharp Turn; Alabama's Artur Davis Primed to Make History
• Sotomayor's Supreme Court Conformation Hearing
• Daycare Pursues Suit Against Swim Club; DEA Involved in Florida Couple's Killing; President Obama on Health Care; New Report on Violent Crimes in Soldiers
• Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
• Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing
• Day Three of Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearings; House and Senate Make Progress in Push for Health Care Reform
• Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing Continues for Sonia Sotomayor; Passenger Plane Crashes in Iran


July 14, 2009
• Sonia Sotomayor Faces Day Two of Senate Confirmations Hearings on Supreme Court Nomination
• Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing
• Seven Arrested in Double Murder, No Direct Ties to Couple; Michelle Obama's Father Buried in Cemetery Who Dug Up and Sold Grave Sites; President Obama Speaking in Michigan; Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Continues
• Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing


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