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Chinese spy probe widens; Australia wants haste (Reuters)

Reuters – Chinese investigators have questioned executives at several steel mills in a widening probe of alleged leaks of state secrets to Australian iron ore supplier Rio Tinto, Chinese media said on Tuesday.

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Supreme Court hearing moves to key social issues (Reuters)

Reuters – President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor faces tough questioning on Tuesday as lawmakers seek to discover where she might take the country on issues such as abortion, guns and race.

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Republicans contest Obama’s Supreme Court choice (Reuters)

Reuters – President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, promised on Monday to apply the law impartially as Republicans used the first day of her confirmation hearings to repeatedly question her objectivity.

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Sotomayor vows impartiality if confirmed to court (AP)

AP – Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in history, vowed loyalty to “the impartiality of our justice system” Monday, confronting Republican skeptics at Senate hearings suffused with racial politics but all but certain to lead to her confirmation.

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