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Johnson City Press: Dr. Daniel McConnell’s say he’s the unluckiest lucky person they’ve ever met. Now that three of his prosthetic hands have been stolen, the first-year medical resident and Afghanistan veteran has decided to accept his fate. “I’ve survived stuff that I shouldn’t have,” he said. “But it would be nice to catch a [...]

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National Journal: Perhaps nothing sums up the precariousness of President Obama’s reelection chances better than a Quinnipiac Poll released on Thursday morning. In “the most heavily Democratic large state” (in the estimation of National Journal’s Almanac of American Politics), 49 percent of voters disapprove of the job the president is doing, while only 45 percent [...]

Editorial by George Soros Financial markets abhor uncertainty; that is why they are now in crisis mode. The governments of the eurozone have taken some significant steps in the right direction to resolve the euro crisis but, obviously, they did not go far enough to reassure the markets. At their meeting on July 21, the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is expressing confidence that it’s constitutional to require people to have health insurance and believes that President Barack Obama’s health care law will be survive all legal challenges in the end. Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter says the White House strongly disagrees with an appeals court ruling Friday that struck [...]

The Hill: A majority of registered voters said they would prefer a generic Democratic candidate for Congress over a Republican in the 2012 elections, according to a new Gallup poll released Friday. In the wake of a bruising congressional fight over raising the debt ceiling, 51 percent of registered voters said they lean toward electing [...]

Chicago Sun-Times: Stocks moved higher Friday for the second day in a row. What happened, Wall Street? Finally tired of the market’s roller-coaster ride? Stocks haven’t moved in the same direction for two straight days in more than a week. And the last time the Dow had two positive days in a row was more [...]

Haaretz: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that Syria would be better off without Assad, and called on nations that buy oil or sell arms to Syria to cut those ties. “We urge those countries still buying Syrian oil or gas, those countries still sending Assad weapons, those countries whose political and [...]

The Hill: Roughly two-thirds of registered voters say the country’s rocky economy is something President Obama inherited rather than caused, according to a new poll. In the McClatchy-Marist poll released Friday, 59 percent of registered voters said the country’s economic conditions are mostly something Obama inherited. Thirty-three percent said they are the result of Obama’s [...]