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'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe (AP)
Analysis: Obama in crosswinds on detention policy (AP)
Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight (AP)
Obama hits golf course to start Vineyard vacation (AP)
Justice to probe alleged CIA abuse (Politico)
Military denies media coverage sways embed choices (AP)
Afghans move toward reconciliation with Taliban (AP)
Analysis: Health overhaul tactics need overhaul (AP)
New clue found to disappearing honey bees (AP)
Remember me? Wall Street repackages toxic debt (AP)
DOJ probe opens divides with Hill, CIA (Politico)
In ads, Darfur activists urge Obama to get tougher (AP)
Obama again tackles "myths" on healthcare reform (Reuters)
Study finds people who multitask often bad at it (AP)
White House, Congress watchdog to unveil budget forecasts (AFP)
Candidates Claim Victory in Afghan Presidential Contest (U.S. News & World Report)
Afghan minister claims Karzai poll win, U.N. says wait (Reuters)
Franks in July: Obama 'born in Hawaii' (Politico)
Alec Baldwin passing on challenge to Lieberman (AP)
Afghan finance minister says Karzai wins election (Reuters)

'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:18 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted.

Analysis: Obama in crosswinds on detention policy (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:55 PM PDT

AP - After declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the Bush administration. It's another headache for an administration struggling to juggle two wars, a painful recession and a crowded agenda bogged down in Congress.

Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT

AP - Add this to President Barack Obama's problems in selling his health care overhaul: A lot of the tech-savvy activists who helped put him in office are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue.

Obama hits golf course to start Vineyard vacation (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:53 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama played tennis with his wife and golf with his buddies Monday, starting his first vacation in office on Martha's Vineyard, a picturesque island known as a refuge for the wealthy and privileged.

Justice to probe alleged CIA abuse (Politico)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:04 PM PDT

Politico - Attorney General Eric Holder has named a federal prosecutor to examine alleged CIA interrogation abuses — a move that could lead to the criminal prosecution of CIA officers and contractors and is sure rekindle the debate over how far the United States should go to get information from terror suspects.

Military denies media coverage sways embed choices (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:26 PM PDT

AP - Military commanders in Afghanistan are not rejecting requests from reporters who want to accompany U.S. troops in Afghanistan because their prior coverage of the military has been negative, the Pentagon said Monday.

Afghans move toward reconciliation with Taliban (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 07:57 AM PDT

AP - Local Afghan leaders told a top U.S. Marine commander Monday that they plan to step up efforts to reconcile with midlevel Taliban in the extremists' southern Helmand province stronghold, where U.S. forces launched a major offensive in recent weeks.

Analysis: Health overhaul tactics need overhaul (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:08 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama still may push through an overhaul of the American health care system, but political indicators point to a needed overhaul of his own tactics for selling reform.

New clue found to disappearing honey bees (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:03 PM PDT

AP - Researchers have a new clue to the collapse of honey bee colonies across the country damage to the bees' internal "factories" that produce proteins. Theories about the cause of bee colony collapse have included viruses, mites, pesticides and fungi.

Remember me? Wall Street repackages toxic debt (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:37 AM PDT

AP - Wall Street may have discovered a way out from under the bad debt and risky mortgages that have clogged the financial markets. The would-be solution probably sounds familiar: It's a lot like what got banks in trouble in the first place.

DOJ probe opens divides with Hill, CIA (Politico)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:27 PM PDT

Politico - President Barack Obama has long said he wanted to look forward, not backward, when it came to investigating Bush-era interrogation policies – but his good friend, Attorney General Eric Holder, went ahead anyway Monday.

In ads, Darfur activists urge Obama to get tougher (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:24 PM PDT

AP - Darfur activists upset about President Barack Obama's Sudan policy are launching a critical advertising campaign that urges him to step up pressure on Khartoum.

Obama again tackles "myths" on healthcare reform (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:11 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama hammered away at "outrageous myths" about his healthcare reform plans on Saturday, seeking again to take control of a debate that has tarnished support for his top domestic policy goal.

Study finds people who multitask often bad at it (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:04 PM PDT

AP - The people who multitask the most are the ones who are worst at it. That's the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found multitaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who do less multitasking.

White House, Congress watchdog to unveil budget forecasts (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT

AFP - The White House and a financial scrutiny arm of Congress will release Tuesday separate government budget estimates and updated economic forecasts highlighting the deficit problem plaguing the Obama administration.

Candidates Claim Victory in Afghan Presidential Contest (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:19 PM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - The vote-tallying began immediately after the polls closed last week. By early evening, election workers were dismantling cardboard voting booths and counting ballots by candlelight.

Afghan minister claims Karzai poll win, U.N. says wait (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 12:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Afghanistan's finance minister claimed victory on Monday for President Hamid Karzai in last week's presidential election but, with no official figures released, the claim was rejected by his main rival's camp.

Franks in July: Obama 'born in Hawaii' (Politico)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 12:17 PM PDT

Politico - A month before Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told a town hall audience that there is not enough evidence that President Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen, he told an interviewer that he believes Obama was “born in Hawaii.”

Alec Baldwin passing on challenge to Lieberman (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 12:15 PM PDT

AP - A spokesman for Alec Baldwin says the actor has no plans to challenge Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2012 election.