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"President Obama is expected to provide additional money to General Motors and Chrysler, but will tie that aid to strict conditions on their restructuring," The Hill writes. "Two industry sources predicted that additional aid to GM and Chrysler would come with conditions the administration would try to portray as 'tough love.'" "In his continuing non-traditional media blitz, President Obama used a popular Spanish-language music awards show tonight to reach out to Hispanics," the Boston Globe reports....( read more ) (link)

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