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Obama invokes grandmother's death in health debate (AP)
Campaign tactics back as Obama presses health care (AP)
Gun law complaints trail Obama during park tours (AP)
Tax dodgers scramble to come clean amid crackdown (AP)
Kenneth Bacon dies at 64 (Politico)
Controller bantering about dead cat before crash (AP)
Refugee advocate, former Pentagon spokesman dies (AP)
US renews calls on Iran to release Americans (AP)
Obama visits Mountain West, knowing vulnerability (AP)
Consumer agency is blocked from some import data (AP)
Good news could spell trouble for GOP (Politico)
Obama keeps heat on insurance firms in reform push (Reuters)
Gov. Jim Doyle won't seek re-election (Politico)
Obama visit puts focus on senator for rural state (AP)
Obama makes good on Montana fly-fishing promise (AP)
Senator meets Suu Kyi, wins American's release (AP)
Iran to put 25 more vote protesters on trial (AFP)
GOP backs away from end-of-life counseling (AP)
Liberal bloggers watch Obama closely, want action (AP)
Afghan election an early test of Obama's war plan (AP)

Obama invokes grandmother's death in health debate (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT

AP - Now, it's personal.

Campaign tactics back as Obama presses health care (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is using political tactics and rhetorical devices honed in his White House campaign to regain the upper hand in the health care debate over increasingly vocal critics.

Gun law complaints trail Obama during park tours (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 02:42 PM PDT

AP - Family in tow for a tour of national treasures far from Washington, President Barack Obama is trailed by criticism from gun opponents and parks advocates for allowing firearms into such majestic places as this.

Tax dodgers scramble to come clean amid crackdown (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 10:57 AM PDT

AP - A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers and the Internal Revenue Service.

Kenneth Bacon dies at 64 (Politico)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:08 PM PDT

Politico - Kenneth H. Bacon, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who became chief Pentagon spokesman under President Bill Clinton, died Saturday at age 64.

Controller bantering about dead cat before crash (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:01 AM PDT

AP - The air traffic controller handling the small plane involved in a deadly crash with a helicopter over the Hudson River was chatting on the telephone about a dead cat at the airport and initially failed to warn the pilot of other aircraft in his path, officials say.

Refugee advocate, former Pentagon spokesman dies (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 12:17 PM PDT

AP - Kenneth Bacon, a Pentagon spokesman in the Clinton administration who became a voice for millions of refugees uprooted by violence and conflict, died Saturday of skin cancer that had spread to his brain. He was 64.

US renews calls on Iran to release Americans (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 09:30 AM PDT

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Iran to release Americans who are detained or have gone missing there.

Obama visits Mountain West, knowing vulnerability (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:09 AM PDT

AP - Perhaps no region of the country better illustrates President Barack Obama's political vulnerabilities than the mountain West.

Consumer agency is blocked from some import data (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:09 AM PDT

AP - Despite the growing number of imports, the government's product safety agency has no access to certain customs information that could help prevent the sale of unsafe products, congressional investigators say.

Good news could spell trouble for GOP (Politico)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 04:25 PM PDT

Politico - Don't expect Republicans to credit President Barack Obama for the recent signs of life in the long-ailing U.S. economy, but don't expect them to applaud more bad news either – at least not publicly.

Obama keeps heat on insurance firms in reform push (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 03:44 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama reignited his criticism of health insurance companies on Saturday, pledging his reforms would prevent firms from capping coverage or charging "outrageous" fees.

Gov. Jim Doyle won't seek re-election (Politico)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 12:11 PM PDT

Politico - Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has told associates he will announce this week that he won’t seek a third term in 2010, POLITICO has learned.

Obama visit puts focus on senator for rural state (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:49 AM PDT

AP - The president's Friday town hall in a conservative suburb of Bozeman allowed him to speak directly to Baucus' constituents the same people who are already giving the senator an angry earful during the congressional August recess.

Obama makes good on Montana fly-fishing promise (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:46 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama didn't let thunderstorms and unseasonably cool weather stop him from learning how to fish for Montana's famous trout during his weekend trip to the rustic West and its national parks.

Senator meets Suu Kyi, wins American's release (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:26 AM PDT

AP - Stung by international outrage over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's ruling generals agreed Saturday to hand an American prisoner involved in her case to a visiting U.S. senator.

Iran to put 25 more vote protesters on trial (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:34 AM PDT

AFP - Iran said on Saturday it will try 25 more people arrested after the disputed result of the June presidential election, as fresh claims surfaced that several protesters in jail were tortured to death.

GOP backs away from end-of-life counseling (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:09 AM PDT

AP - Until last week, Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson was among the most enthusiastic backers of end-of-life counseling in government health care programs like Medicare.

Liberal bloggers watch Obama closely, want action (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2009 06:08 AM PDT

AP - They wish he'd done more in his first eight months, but the liberal bloggers who helped propel Barack Obama to the White House are far from giving up on him.