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• White House: Obama may detail health plans soon (AP)
• New rules coming to fight pilots' fatigue? (AP)
• Dems hope September alters health care debate (AP)
• Obama: Manufacturing growth a good sign (AP)
• 'Lord of the Flies' in Kabul (Politico)
• Obama says Americans should get swine flu vaccine (AP)
• US, Cuba to discuss resuming direct mail (AP)
• GOP senators seek go-slow approach on health care (AP)
• Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery (AP)
• New rules proposed for medical helicopters (AP)
• Study: Swine flu easily overtakes other strains (AP)
• Obama ties Netanyahu support to talks (Politico)
• Mass. attorney general is 1st to seek Kennedy seat (AP)
• Obama to host dinner for Islamic holy month (AP)
• Game time changed to avoid conflict with holiday (AP)
• CIA: No more interrogation secrets to be disclosed (AP)
• Group: US Embassy guards in Kabul are mistreated (AP)
• White House: Attempt to kill Saudi 'cowardly' (AP)
• Gov. Patrick Supports Interim Appointment to Replace Kennedy (U.S. News & World Report)
• US asks judge to dismiss diplomatic immunity suit (AP)

White House: Obama may detail health plans soon (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama is considering a speech to spell out more details of his goals for overhauling health care without waiting for Senate negotiators to finish their talks.

New rules coming to fight pilots' fatigue? (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:19 PM PDT AP - Crowded skies and exhausted pilots are a bad mix, the airline industry and pilot unions agree, but they're struggling over what to do about it.

Dems hope September alters health care debate (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:35 PM PDT AP - For backers of health care overhaul, it's TGIS: Thank goodness it's September.

Obama: Manufacturing growth a good sign (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says a promising report on the state of U.S. manufacturing is a sign that the hurting economy is moving in the right direction.

'Lord of the Flies' in Kabul (Politico) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 12:21 PM PDT Politico - At a time when security in Afghanistan is worsening and the administration is trying to shore up liberal support for the war, State Department contractors guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul are working in a “Lord of the Flies environment,” a Washington watchdog group told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

Obama says Americans should get swine flu vaccine (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:21 PM PDT AP - With a potentially deadly swine flu outbreak looming, President Barack Obama is urging Americans to take steps to prevent infection.

US, Cuba to discuss resuming direct mail (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - The United States and Cuba will start talks this month on resuming direct mail service between the two countries for the first time in nearly half a century as the Obama administration continues to try to engage the communist island, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

GOP senators seek go-slow approach on health care (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - An odd couple of Republican senators have hit the road, arguing for a go-slow approach to President Barack Obama's push to revamp health care.

Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being "perhaps the cruelest industry" in the world.

New rules proposed for medical helicopters (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:45 PM PDT AP - The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urged the government to impose stricter controls on emergency helicopter operators, including requiring the use of autopilots, night-vision systems and flight data recorders in an industry that suffered a record number of fatalities last year.

Study: Swine flu easily overtakes other strains (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - Put swine flu in a room with other strains of influenza and it doesn't mix into a new superbug — it takes over, researchers reported Tuesday.

Obama ties Netanyahu support to talks (Politico) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:40 PM PDT Politico - U.S. officials are stepping up the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut a deal on curtailing Israeli settlements, and they're holding out a prize that both Netanyahu and President Barack Obama badly want: strong ties between the two leaders.

Mass. attorney general is 1st to seek Kennedy seat (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:45 PM PDT AP - The race for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death last week of Edward Kennedy got off to a cautious start Tuesday, despite a tight five-month election schedule that leaves little time for campaigning.

Obama to host dinner for Islamic holy month (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:24 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is hosting a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Game time changed to avoid conflict with holiday (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - ESPN and Major League Baseball have agreed to switch the starting time of a Yankees-Red Sox game to avoid conflicting with Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

CIA: No more interrogation secrets to be disclosed (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:29 PM PDT AP - The CIA says it cannot turn over more details of its interrogations of terror suspects without spilling classified government secrets.

Group: US Embassy guards in Kabul are mistreated (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:06 PM PDT AP - Guards hired by the State Department to protect diplomats and staff at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan live and work in a "Lord of the Flies" environment in which they are subjected to hazing and other inappropriate behavior by supervisors, a government oversight group charged Tuesday.

White House: Attempt to kill Saudi 'cowardly' (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 01:35 PM PDT AP - The White House says a failed assassination attempt against a Saudi anti-terrorism minister was a "cowardly attack" and serves as a reminder of the importance of U.S. cooperation with partners in that region.

Gov. Patrick Supports Interim Appointment to Replace Kennedy (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 01:13 PM PDT U.S. News & World Report - It's been a quarter-century since Massachusetts last saw an open-seat race for the U.S. Senate, so speculation over who will vie to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy was raging even before his death. The question of whether the state legislature will comply with Kennedy's dying wish to allow the governor to appoint a replacement until a special election only adds to the drama.

US asks judge to dismiss diplomatic immunity suit (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 12:14 PM PDT AP - The U.S. government has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by a former State Department official demanding diplomatic immunity against charges that she helped kidnap a terrorism suspect in Italy.

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