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For all the hand-wringing and breathless forecasts, the oil spill does not appear to have done lasting political damage to the president or his party. Still, every day President Obama was forced to spend on the spill was a day he couldn't devote to his own agenda.

After a weekend dominated by Republican White House hopefuls, President Obama hit the campaign trail Monday on a bus tour of the Midwest.

Three same-sex couples are suing the California Public Employees' Retirement System. The couples allege CalPERS is violating their civil rights by excluding same-sex partners from long-term health care plans.

Burmese pythons have been slithering around south Florida for decades, but scientists now say the invasive constrictors are so bad, they're eating their way through the swamps. The snakes have decimated populations of mammals like raccoons, possums and white-tailed deer.

The Justice Department said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was refusing to cooperate in a civil rights investigation into alleged discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures. Arpaio, known for his efforts against illegal immigrants, said a year ago that he would not cooperate with the inquiry.

Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana is set to go on trial Tuesday on federal bribery and corruption charges. The case made headlines after the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer.

Two years after major surgeries at the VA Medical Center in Marion, Ill., were suspended following a suspicious spike in post-surgical patient deaths, quality management and patient care problems persist at the facility, a new federal report finds.

Congress is pushing ahead with a bill to mandate U.S. employers use E-Verify. But California leads an opposition effort to make E-Verify optional.

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