House, Senate leaders meet Sunday on debt talks

07/10/11 President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the monthly jobs report, Friday, July 8, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Photo: Susan Walsh / AP

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Things to do in the River Bend

07/16/11 Sunday, July 17 Sunset Concerts at Alton Riverfront Amphitheater: 6 to 8 p.m., Sundays to July 24, Life Empowerment Outreach (LEO) Ministries, www.leo-ministries.org . Carillon Concerts in the Park: 5 p.m. Thelma Ballard, Rose Garden at Gordon Moore Park, (618) 465-6676.

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GOP to fight Obama's pick of Cordray

07/19/11 WASHINGTON - The choice of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head a new federal consumer-protection agency did not pacify Senate Republicans, who vowed to fight his nomination until President Barack Obama agrees to revise the powers of the bureau.At a Rose Garden ceremony yesterday on a scorching midsummer afternoon, Obama tapped Cordray as the first director of the Consumer ...

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