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Brazil police find stolen Picasso
Police in Brazil have recovered an engraving by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a museum in Sao Paulo…

McCain adviser on Iraq PM’s Obama support: ‘We’re f**ked’
McCain adviser on Iraq PM’s Obama support: ‘We’re f**ked’

75 percent of Americans support gays serving openly in the military.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll released today shows 75 percent of Americans polled “said gay people who are open about their sexual orientation should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military” — a dramatic rise from the 61 percent who supported the notion in 2001. Support has increased across party and ideological lines: […]

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll released today shows 75 percent of Americans polled “said gay people who are open about their sexual orientation should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military” — a dramatic rise from the 61 percent who supported the notion in 2001. Support has increased across party and ideological lines:

Support from Republicans has doubled over the past 15 years, from 32 to 64 percent. More than eight in 10 Democrats and more than three-quarters of independents now support the idea, as did nearly two-thirds of self-described conservatives.

Today is the 15th anniversary of the “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy. At that time, a majority of all Americans — including 75 percent of conservatives — supported a ban on gays in the military.

U.S. Talks With Iran Exemplify Bush’s New Approaches
WACO, Tex., July 19 — With his moves last week involving Iraq, Iran and North Korea, President Bush accelerated a shift toward centrist foreign policies, a change that has cheered Democrats, angered some Republicans and roiled the presidential campaign.

Obama and Latinos’ Common Bond
SAN DIEGO — Barack Obama is looking for a way to convince Latino voters that he is simpatico. He may have found it thanks to the cover of The New Yorker. During the primaries, Obama tried to equate civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King and United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez. Then, in a recent speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Obama insisted that he had worked with local Latino leaders as a young civil rights attorney in Chicago and argued that, in a weak economy, “few have been hit harder than Latinos and African-Americans.” Finally, while speaking to the National Council of La Raza last week, Obama talked about how many in the Latino community came here “with so little but … a thirst to succeed” and said it reminded him of what brought his father here from Kenya “in the hope that, in America, you can make it if you try.”

Obama’s CEOs
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Barack Obama has been meeting secretly with heavy industry CEOs in Washington to discuss issues that he would face as president. On the campaign trail, Obama has been highly critical of corporate executives and promised them nothing but tougher regulation and higher taxes. But the unannounced, small evening sessions with them since he clinched the Democratic nomination have been non-confrontational and cordial. Obama scheduled the meetings without any hopes of winning the captains of industry over from Sen. John McCain, but to show them they would be able to do business with him in the White House and that the president’s door would be open to the corporate leaders. Their consensus was that he has largely succeeded in that purpose.