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• A torch extinguished: Ted Kennedy dead at 77 (AP)
• Kennedy's absence leaves Senate void of dealmaker (AP)
• Kennedy to have Boston funeral, Arlington burial (AP)
• CDC leery of estimates about swine flu's toll (AP)
• Grieving Dodd weighs chairmanships (Politico)
• Obama says 'thank you and goodbye' to Kennedy (AP)
• Cash for Clunkers under budget with 690,000 sales (AP)
• OAS chief still hopes for Honduran settlement (AP)
• Stimulus checks not boosting economy — in prison (AP)
• Kennedy tributes pour in from Democrats — and GOP (AP)
• Obama asks docs to promote health care fix (AP)
• Health care industry contributes heavily to Blue Dogs (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Winds shifting for Wall Street? (Politico)
• Who will succeed Kennedy? Speculative list is long (AP)
• Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77 (AP)
• A tale of two Teddys (Politico)
• 'Problem by problem,' Kennedy transformed himself (Politico)
• Obama left holding Kennedy flame (AFP)
• Obama wants states to overhaul failing schools (AP)
• Open Calif. congressional seat attracts wide field (AP)

A torch extinguished: Ted Kennedy dead at 77 (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:31 PM PDT AP - The greatest heights eluded Ted Kennedy over a lifetime of achievement and pain. No presidency. No universal health care, chief among his causes.

Kennedy's absence leaves Senate void of dealmaker (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:05 PM PDT AP - In an era of bitter political division, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death silenced a singular voice of bipartisanship at a time when colleagues are struggling with angry constituents and each other over an elusive plan to overhaul the nation's health care system.

Kennedy to have Boston funeral, Arlington burial (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:55 PM PDT AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will lie in repose Thursday and Friday at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, followed by his funeral Saturday at a city church and burial later that day near his slain brothers at Arlington National Cemetery.

CDC leery of estimates about swine flu's toll (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT AP - Government health officials are urging people not to panic over estimates of 90,000 people dying from swine flu this fall. "Everything we've seen in the U.S. and everything we've seen around the world suggests we won't see that kind of number if the virus doesn't change," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Grieving Dodd weighs chairmanships (Politico) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:37 PM PDT Politico - Grieving the loss of his close friend Ted Kennedy, Sen. Chris Dodd is also faced with one of the most significant political choices of his Senate career.

Obama says 'thank you and goodbye' to Kennedy (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:57 PM PDT AP - Edward M. Kennedy was much more than just former Senate colleague and influential legislator to Barack Obama, evident in the president's personal, mournful tribute on Wednesday.

Cash for Clunkers under budget with 690,000 sales (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:13 PM PDT AP - The popular Cash for Clunkers program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales during the past month, giving the U.S. auto industry a badly needed jolt of activity during the deepest decline in auto sales in two decades.

OAS chief still hopes for Honduran settlement (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:52 PM PDT AP - The head of the Organization of American States held out hope Wednesday for a resolution of the Honduran presidential crisis even after the high-level delegation he led to the Central American country failed to arrange for ousted President Manuel Zelaya's return.

Stimulus checks not boosting economy — in prison (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:02 PM PDT AP - The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.

Kennedy tributes pour in from Democrats — and GOP (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama marked Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death Wednesday by declaring his fellow Democrat "one of the single most effective senators" in U.S. history, praise that was hardly a shock to the partisan senses.

Obama asks docs to promote health care fix (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT AP - The White House is asking doctors to help promote its drive to overhaul health care, marking an effort by President Barack Obama to regain momentum on the issue.

Health care industry contributes heavily to Blue Dogs (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:06 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — During the first half of the year, as the Obama administration and moderate and liberal factions within the Democratic Party wrangled over the timing, shape and cost of health care reform efforts, the party's fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition pulled in $1.1 million in campaign contributions, according to watchdog organizations.

Winds shifting for Wall Street? (Politico) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:54 PM PDT Politico - Sen. Ted Kennedy's death could shift the political winds for a reviled Wall Street.

Who will succeed Kennedy? Speculative list is long (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:27 PM PDT AP - For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them.

Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77 (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT AP - In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy's fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation's capital. No, the Massachusetts senator said with a shake of his head, and mentioned something about visiting his brothers' gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery.

A tale of two Teddys (Politico) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:45 PM PDT Politico - Highlights and lowlights from the life of a political legend:

'Problem by problem,' Kennedy transformed himself (Politico) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:10 PM PDT Politico - A decade ago, at the memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr., yet another family member struck down at an early age, Edward M. Kennedy mourned his nephew by noting that he would not live “to comb gray hairs.”Â

Obama left holding Kennedy flame (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:58 PM PDT AFP - It was fitting that President Barack Obama was in Edward Kennedy's beloved home state when the senator died, as the Democratic giant had played a vital role in getting him elected.

Obama wants states to overhaul failing schools (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:45 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is making good on a promise to use federal dollars to prod local officials to turn around failing schools.

Open Calif. congressional seat attracts wide field (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:57 AM PDT AP - More than a dozen candidates, including the lieutenant governor, two state lawmakers and an openly gay Iraq war veteran, are running to fill an open congressional seat in a special election in Northern California next week.

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