Highlights of Walter Cronkite broadcasts

Highlights of some Cronkite broadcasts

Highlights of some of Walter Cronkite’s broadcasts.

Jobless rate tops 10 percent in 15 states and DC, endangers economic recovery

WASHINGTON — Fifteen states have crossed a painful threshold: 10 percent unemployment. More states, and the nation, likely will follow, one of the biggest dangers to an economic recovery.

White House, Democratic rebels seek greater health care savings in struggle for overhaul

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, worried about growing resistance to his health care plan, exhorted Congress not to “lose heart” Friday and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans.

House panels OK health care bill, but White House, Democratic conservatives seek more savings

WASHINGTON — Health care legislation atop President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda cleared two House committees on Friday, but the White House as well as rebellious Democratic conservatives called quickly for changes to rein in the skyrocketing cost of care.

White House, Dem rebels seek greater health care savings in struggle for overhaul

WASHINGTON — Health care legislation atop President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda cleared two House committees on Friday, but the White House as well as rebellious Democratic conservatives called quickly for changes to rein in the skyrocketing cost of care.

White House asks Congress for more power to set Medicare rates

WASHINGTON — The White House is asking Congress to give the executive branch more power to limit Medicare’s rising costs.

Unemployment tops 10 percent in 15 states in June; Michigan at 15.2 percent, highest since ‘84

WASHINGTON — Unemployment topped 10 percent in 15 states and the District of Columbia last month, according to federal data released Friday. The rate in Michigan surpassed 15 percent, the first time any state hit that mark since 1984.

A GOP appointee, US attorney in NC keeps chasing big-name Dems, whose party won’t push him out

BEAUFORT, N.C. — Having swapped his hip-holstered Blackberry for fishing pliers, the U.S. attorney for eastern North Carolina watches closely from the captain’s chair aboard the 45-foot “Jolly Mon” as his crew prepares for a day on the water.

Jet showdown: Pentagon chief says veto threat is real in squabble with Congress over funding

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon and Congress all but dared each other Thursday to a showdown over funding for fighter jets in a multimillion-dollar squabble that each side said they were fighting in the interests of U.S. security.

Estranged wife of ex-Miss. GOP congressman Pickering files lawsuit claiming he had affair

JACKSON, Miss. — The estranged wife of former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit that the Mississippi Republican had an affair that ruined their marriage and derailed his political career.

Judge dismisses 13-year-old lawsuit against Hillary Clinton over White House use of FBI files

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday threw out a 13-year-old lawsuit against Hillary Rodham Clinton involving the White House’s handling of FBI background records.

Murtha says White House veto threat on F-22 fighter jet funding won’t derail spending bill

WASHINGTON — Despite adding money for two programs that the White House has said will result in a veto of the defense spending bill, a key House Democrat said Thursday he’s confident the legislation will avoid that fate.

On NAACP’s 100th anniversary, Obama urges personal responsibility as well as gov’t partnership

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama says African-Americans are still feeling “the pain of discrimination” despite the many advances blacks have made over the past century.

Breaking tradition, House Dems deny GOP chance to force debate _ and politically painful votes

WASHINGTON — In their zeal to protect their members from politically hazardous votes on issues such as gay marriage and gun control, Democrats running the House of Representatives are taking extraordinary steps to muzzle Republicans in this summer’s debates on spending bills.

White House says it’s ‘disturbed and saddened’ by killing of Russian human rights activist

WASHINGTON — The White House says it’s “disturbed and saddened” by the kidnapping and killing of a Russian human rights activist.

In message for NAACP centennial, Obama says gov’t, families, communities must work together

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is telling the nation’s oldest civil rights organization that government, families and neighborhoods must work together to improve communities.

Obama, NAACP both can celebrate making history at group’s 100th annual convention

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is telling the nation’s oldest civil rights organization that government, families and neighborhoods must work together to improve their communities.

Obama to tell NAACP that families, neighborhoods must work together to improve communities

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is telling the nation’s oldest civil rights organization that government, families and neighborhoods must work together to improve their communities.

In message to NAACP, Obama says government, families, communities must work together

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is telling the nation’s oldest civil rights organization that government, families and neighborhoods must work together to improve their communities.

Obama has first success with health care overhaul vote as his TV ads try to build support

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama achieved a milestone Wednesday when a Senate committee approved a plan to revamp the U.S. health care system.

Clinton makes move to emerge from White House’s shadow, return to foreign policy center stage

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bounded back into the public arena in a choreographed event Wednesday aimed at reasserting her position as the Obama administration’s top diplomat.

Clinton makes move to emerge from Obama, Biden’s shadow, return to foreign policy center stage

WASHINGTON — Eclipsed by a globe-trotting president and an administration crowded with foreign policy heavyweights, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is talking tough on Iran as she struggles to regain her role as the nation’s top diplomat.

With threat of lockout looming, NFL players to make union’s case on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON — As NFL owners and players resume talks on a new collective bargaining agreement, the new union chief and 20 current and retired players plan to meet with members of Congress Wednesday in hopes of building political support to head off a lockout.

CAPITAL CULTURE: Obama is latest duffer in chief, uses golf to escape White House cocoon

WASHINGTON — When it comes to the sport of presidents, Barack Obama is very much the everyman.

AP sources: Obama tells lawmaker he wants health bill in Senate committee bill by week’s end

WASHINGTON — Democratic officials say President Barack Obama has told a key lawmaker involved in drafting health care legislation he wants a bill in the Senate Finance Committee by week’s end.

Bush releases final lists of White House, Camp David overnight guests

WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush’s overnight guests shortly before he left office included Republican Sen. Judd Gregg, who spent the night at the Camp David presidential retreat just a few weeks before President Barack Obama asked him to serve in his Cabinet, guest lists released Monday show.

White House: Jobs in health care, environment growing more quickly than rest of economy

WASHINGTON — Health care and environment-focused jobs will drive a jobs recovery, the White House predicted Monday even as it cautioned that the work will require better training to give workers greater skills.

Clinton blames White House vetting process for delay in naming USAID administrator

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is blaming an exhaustive White House vetting process for the fact that the Obama administration has not yet named a person to run the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Obama promises to get health care overhaul done this year despite congressional delays

WASHINGTON — A defiant President Barack Obama says health care overhaul will be done this year.

White House summons top lawmakers for meeting on health care as timetable slips

WASHINGTON — The White House summoned two lawmakers critical to President Barack Obama’s hopes for health care overhaul to a private meeting Monday as the timetable for a comprehensive bill continued to slip.