Court: 'don't ask, don't tell' will stay in place (AP)

Sean Sala poses in front of a statue of a Navy sailor kissing a nurse Thursday, July 14, 2011, in San Diego. Sala, a former sailor, is organizing a military contingent of hundreds of former and active-duty troops to lead San Diego’s Gay Pride March set for July 15th, in a show of unity to honor those who serve the country and have died for it. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is back in place for the time being, with one major caveat: the government is not allowed to investigate, penalize or discharge anyone who is openly gay.


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Phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch-owned British paper leads to high-level resignations

LONDON ? Two key lieutenants in Rupert Murdoch?s media empire resigned Friday as a widening scandal involving illegal phone hacking by Murdoch?s British newspaper journalists continued to engulf his company.

Leslie ?Les? Hinton, head of Dow Jones & Co., the division of Murdoch?s News Corp. that owns the Wall Street Journal, resigned late in the day, providing a bookend to the morning resignation of Rebekah Brooks, the executive in charge of the company?s British newspaper unit.

Hinton, who had been in Murdoch?s employ for more than 50 years, and Brooks are key figures in the still-unfolding scandal. Hinton oversaw News Corp.?s British newspapers when one of its papers, the News of the World, began to pry into the phone accounts of hundreds of British celebrities, politicians and ordinary citizens. Brooks was editor of the News of the World at the time and succeeded Hinton as chief of the British unit, News International.

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Democrat Leader Calls Out Republicans (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - House Democratic chairman John Larson, D-Conn., said in a news conference today the debt ceiling compromise, "grand or otherwise," was anything but a "shared sacrifice." Taking exception to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's description of the talks, Larson and his vice chairman told reporters that Republicans had thus far sacrificed nothing and were "arrogant" and "insulting" to suggest that they were compromising when all they have actually done is agree to negotiate.

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Obama, Some Polls On His Side, Keeps Debt-Ceiling Pressure On GOP

The president's appearance Friday was partly about driving the discussion by pundits and the American people over the weekend. It's the last weekend before a deal must be achieved, according to the White House timeline, to meet the Aug. 2 date beyond which the Treasury Department runs out of accounting tricks to pay the nation's bills.

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Obama fundraising report signals juggernaut campaign

Nearly 250 bundlers have raised $50,000 or more for President Obama just three months into the 2012 campaign, including more than two dozen who have each raised $500,000 or more.

The bundler list and other data released Friday provide further evidence of an astonishingly successful fundraising effort by Obama even amid a struggling economy and mediocre approval ratings.

Obama?s official campaign raised $46.3 million and spent $11 million from April to June of this year, according to new documents filed with the Federal Election Commission. That left it with a whopping $37 million in case, including money left over from the first quarter. Obama also brought in $39.3 million in a joint fundraising effort with the Democratic National Committee, filings show.

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Our Heroes Are All Around Us

Today the President awarded the Medal of Honor to Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry. Sergeant Petry is the second living Medal of Honor recipient to have earned the award for service during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was an incredible event.

Sergeant Petry, an Army Ranger, was honored for his actions during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2008. While on a high-risk daytime mission, Petry and two of his comrades were injured by enemy fire. Despite his wounds, Petry continued to lead his soldiers, dragging one who had been injured to cover. When an enemy grenade landed near him and his comrades, Sergeant Petry moved toward the grenade and picked it up to throw it back – saving the lives of his fellow Rangers. As he cocked his arm to lob the live grenade away, it exploded. Petry lost his hand, but did not give up the fight. He tied a tourniquet around his own bleeding arm and continued to direct the operation, working to ensure the safety of his comrades until the end of the mission.

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U.S. and Russia: Expanding the ?Reset? to Cyberspace

Many are familiar with our work on behalf of the President to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities, such as hardening government systems and building public awareness about cybersecurity for end-users.  But what you don’t always hear about are our efforts to reduce the overall risk to our national networks through active diplomacy and international technical collaboration.  Both are key efforts for realizing the President’s International Strategy for Cyberspace (pdf) released in May.

Risk reduction is crucially important to our relationship with Russia, where we continue regular policy coordination at the highest levels, including on issues related to cybersecurity.  Just last month we hosted a Russian delegation, led by my counterpart, Russian National Security Council Deputy Secretary Nikolay Klimashin, for another round of in-depth discussions here in Washington.  Joined by senior officials from across the U.S. and Russian governments, our goal was to continue building mutual confidence in our two governments’ activities in cyberspace to reduce the risk of misperception and inadvertent crisis.  It’s a prime example of the “Reset” in U.S.-Russia relations taking on a new and important dimension.

Both the U.S. and Russia are committed to tackling common cybersecurity threats while at the same time reducing the chances a misunderstood incident could negatively affect our relationship.  We’re actively working on doing so in numerous ways:  through regular exchanges of information on technical threats to both sides like botnets; by better understanding each other’s military views on operating in cyberspace; and by establishing 24/7 systems allowing us to communicate about cybersecurity issues via our existing and highly successful crisis prevention communications links between our two capitals.  We plan to have all three mechanisms established by year’s end.  Through progress like this, our countries are leading the way in developing pro-active bi-lateral measures that use cyberspace to more broadly enhance our national, and international security.

You can read the joint statement Deputy Secretary Klimashin and I issued about the meeting here (pdf).

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/12/us-and-russia-expanding-reset-cyberspace

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