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President Obama has named Sonia Sotomayor as his choice to serve on the Supreme Court and succeed Justice David Souter, who will soon retire. If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic and only the third woman appointed to the high court.

A date for confirmation hearings has not been set yet for Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice David Souter. The president wants her confirmed before Congress leaves for its August recess. But Republicans say they won't be rushed.

One vocal participant in the debate over enhanced interrogation techniques is former Vice President Dick Cheney. Recently he has stepped into the breach to defend the policies of the Bush administration.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday the stimulus plan was showing signs of progress, but that patience was needed as the government revived the economy. The comments came in a prime-time news conference at the White House.

Historian John Hope Franklin died Wednesday at the age of 94. Franklin's work defined the field of African-American history, and he played a crucial role in pivotal civil rights events of the 20th century.

The Obama administration has unveiled its plan for overhauling the financial regulatory system. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers the administration wants to bring some of the market's most complicated products under federal oversight.

An Iranian official said Wednesday that American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been jailed for more than two months in Iran, had been charged with spying for the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that the White House is "deeply concerned by the news" of the charges.

The U.N.-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative allowed Ukraine to ship food to other parts of the world during the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's suspending the deal for now.

The crew of a U.S.-flagged ship that was seized by pirates Wednesday off Somalia retook the vessel, but the ship's captain was still being held hostage. It was the first such hostage-taking incident involving Americans in more than 200 years.

Health professionals who monitored the CIA's interrogation of detainees violated medical ethics, says a new report from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Mark Danner, a journalism professor who published the report in the New York Review of Books, says the report concludes interrogation procedures used constitute torture.