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Obama faces tough week; stimulus, bailout on tap (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 10:44 PM CST AP - President Barack Obama plunges into a difficult test of his leadership this week, struggling to get a divided Congress to agree on his economic recovery package while pitching a new plan to ease loans to consumers and businesses.

WHO GETS WHAT: Billions to colleges and students (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 10:46 PM CST AP - The stimulus plan emerging in Washington could offer an unprecedented, multibillion-dollar boost in financial help for college students trying to pursue a degree while they ride out the recession.

Geithner delays financial bailout plan to Tuesday (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:43 PM CST AP - A Treasury Department official says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will unveil the Obama administration's new framework to aid the financial sector on Tuesday.

RNC chief: Payments to sister's firm appropriate (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 02:55 PM CST AP - Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Sunday that claims he made inappropriate payments to his sister's company for work never performed were untrue and made by a felon trying to get a reduced sentence.

Stimulus gut check: Will voters buy it? (Politico) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 05:10 PM CST Politico - Washington's great debate over the economy comes down to this in the Senate on Monday: Republicans who control 41 percent of the seats say a Democratic stimulus bill that is 44 percent tax breaks and backed by business isn't bipartisan enough.

Anti-war lawmakers worry over plan for Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:45 PM CST AP - After campaigning on the promise to end one war, President Barack Obama is preparing to escalate another.

AP IMPACT: Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 04:53 PM CST AP - Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions — including whether it's a real disease at all.

Lincoln stamps being released for Abe's birthday (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:15 PM CST AP - Four new postal stamps highlighting the personal history of Abraham Lincoln are set to be released on Monday as the nation commemorates Lincoln's 200th birthday this week.

GOP seeking to end ban on some donation limits (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:21 PM CST AP - Republicans are making another run at overturning a ban on unlimited "soft money" contributions. Their Democratic rivals say it is an attempt to bring big money back to politics because the GOP can't keep up with President Barack Obama's fundraising machine.

Official: Sebelius a top candidate for HHS (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 01:27 PM CST AP - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is near the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department at least partially on the strength of her long and close working relationship with the president, a senior administration official said.

Obama to appeal to US public on stimulus plan (AFP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:28 AM CST AFP - President Barack Obama was Monday to take his case for a huge economic rescue plan directly to the US public, warning of a "catastrophe" without urgent action, as a pivotal vote loomed in the Senate.

Obama to push stimulus in rally, news conference (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:18 AM CST Reuters - Chafing over congressional delays, an energized President Barack Obama on Monday rallies supporters in Indiana and addresses his first presidential news conference in a new drive for passage of an $800 billion economic recovery plan.

Obama grassroots network meets over stimulus (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 09:15 PM CST Reuters - Thousands of groups of ardent fans of U.S. President Barack Obama met across the country during the weekend in hopes of converting the grassroots energy that fueled his election campaign into a durable movement.

Biden trip yields few tangible returns (Politico) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 08:01 PM CST Politico - MUNICH-When Barack Obama came to Germany as a candidate last year, he stood before an adoring crowd of hundreds of thousands and promised to tear down "the walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic."

Reformist Khatami declares bid for Iran presidency (AFP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST AFP - Iran's reformist ex-president Mohammad Khatami on Sunday announced he will stand in June presidential elections in a challenge that could see the ouster of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hardline government.

Obama officials delay bank bailout announcement (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 05:15 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Sunday postponed the announcement of its new bank rescue plan so that it could concentrate on pushing passage of economic stimulus legislation in Congress.

Analysis: Biden promises foreign policy shifts (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 04:00 PM CST AP - The Obama administration promises sweeping changes in American foreign policy, and some U.S. adversaries are nibbling the bait.

Plouffe to Baku (Politico) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 03:41 PM CST Politico - Barack Obama's campaign manager will give a paid speech to "a pro-government NGO and mouthpiece of the president's office" in a post-Soviet autocracy with a major interest in American energy policy, according to a report.

Iraq combat could outlast Obama's term (Politico) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:41 PM CST Politico - Thomas E. Ricks, the nation’s best-known defense correspondent, writes in a book out this week that many Iraq veterans believe the U.S. is likely to have “soldiers in combat in Iraq until at least 2015 – which would put us now at about the midpoint of the conflict.”

Iran's Khatami to run in presidential election (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2009 11:33 AM CST Reuters - Former President Mohammad Khatami, who pushed for detente with the West when in office from 1997 to 2005, said on Sunday he would run in Iran's June presidential election.

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