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Obama treads lightly in meeting with Canada's PM (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 10:18 PM CST AP - President Barack Obama courted warmer relations with America's snowy northern neighbor Thursday, declining to ask war-weary Canada to do more in Afghanistan, promising he won't allow a protectionist creep into U.S. trade policy and talking reassuringly around thorny energy issues.

Clinton names special NKorea envoy (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2009 12:43 AM CST AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton named a special envoy for North Korea on Friday but warned the communist nation that ties with the United States will not improve unless it stops threatening South Korea.

SC Rep: Opposition to stimulus is slap in face (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 10:26 PM CST AP - The highest-ranking black congressman said Thursday that opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern GOP governors is "a slap in the face of African-Americans."

Reid: Senate to take up climate change this year (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 10:27 PM CST AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he wants to take up a bill to tackle global warming by the end of the summer.

NRCC blasts Dems in robocalls (Politico) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 07:13 PM CST Politico - House Republicans continue to target Democrats across the country for their support of the economic stimulus package.

FBI tracks down Texas financier in fraud case (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 07:58 PM CST AP - Texas financier R. Allen Stanford was tracked down Thursday in Virginia, where FBI agents served him with legal papers in a multibillion-dollar fraud case.

Burris' support in black community begins to waver (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 08:36 PM CST AP - A group of black ministers who supported U.S. Sen. Roland Burris as he fought to get his job now plan to ask for his resignation following revelations that he tried to raise money for the disgraced governor who appointed him, one of the ministers told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Obama aide outlines stimulus requirements (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 05:59 PM CST AP - President Barack Obama's top budget aides are putting in place strict reporting requirements for all federal agencies that will be involved in spending parts of the $787 billion economic stimulus package.

Billionaire in fraud case always saw bright future (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 05:51 PM CST AP - On paper, it looked like R. Allen Stanford was making all the right moves.

GOP considers ex-NY Gov. Pataki for Senate in 2010 (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:40 PM CST AP - The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has approached former New York Gov. George Pataki about running for the U.S. Senate in 2010, according to a person who spoke to Pataki about the private meeting.

New York Times, lobbyist settle libel suit (Reuters) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 10:35 PM CST Reuters - A Washington lobbyist who sued The New York Times for an article she said suggested she once had a romantic relationship with 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain has settled with the newspaper, the two sides said on Thursday.

Post apologizes (Politico) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 07:25 PM CST Politico - Or at least, this editorial is as close to an apology as I've ever seen from the New York Post:

Obama's drive-by diplomacy (Politico) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST Politico - OTTAWA – Berlin, it was not.

Obama reassures Canada on open trade (Reuters) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 06:24 PM CST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday assured Canada, his country's biggest trading partner, that he would not pursue protectionist policies, and the two neighbors agreed to cooperate on cleaner energy technology.

US steps up pressure on UBS in bank secrets case (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 06:06 PM CST AP - A government lawsuit Thursday seeks the identities of tens of thousands of possible U.S. tax cheats who hid billions of dollars in assets at the Swiss-based bank UBS AG. A defiant Swiss president pledged to maintain his country's bank secrecy laws.

Iseman claims win; NYT stands ground (Politico) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 06:03 PM CST Politico - As soon as the New York Times and lobbyist Vicki Iseman settled her lawsuit against the paper, both sides claimed victory.

Panetta promises honesty as CIA director (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 05:41 PM CST AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta promised honest leadership as he took the helm Thursday of an agency with a public image tarnished by allegations of torture and faulty intelligence estimates.

Spending on preventing homelessness to soar (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 05:31 PM CST AP - In the coming months, the Housing and Urban Development Department will oversee at least a tenfold increase in spending on programs designed to prevent homelessness, officials said Thursday.

Energy secretary predicts higher demand for oil (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 05:07 PM CST AP - Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a champion of renewable energy and biofuels, has no delusions about the future of oil. Global demand for it will increase over the next two decades even with more efficiency and alternative fuels, he says, and prices will again go higher.

Estimates released of stimulus dollars (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:44 PM CST AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the economic stimulus plan will help avert thousands of teacher layoffs, and he released the first estimates of where the money will go.

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