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• Obama says status quo no solution on health care (AP)
• White House wants talks to focus on Iran's nukes (AP)
• Thousands of downtown D.C. protesters blast Obama (AP)
• China: Trade penalties will hurt US relations (AP)
• W.H. wants actions from Iran (Politico)
• Afghanistan: Questions, answers on war, US plans (AP)
• Health care faces some big legislative bottlenecks (AP)
• Avoiding the financial abyss: Success, no glory (AP)
• Friendly crowd at Frank's Mass. health care forum (AP)
• State lawmakers try to halt health care changes (AP)
• Honduras' interim president: US revoked my visas (AP)
• W.H. wants concrete actions from Iran (Politico)
• Can Obama Woo Skeptics After Health-Care-Reform Speech? (Time.com)
• Obama warns against scare tactics over healthcare (Reuters)
• McDonnell drops on-air F-bomb (Politico)
• GOP's Brown Gets Massachusetts Senate Boost as Card Bows Out (CQPolitics.com)
• 'Freedom fighters' take a stand in D.C. (Politico)
• Obama: Public option helps health care competition (AP)
• Obama says US closer than ever to health reform (AP)
• Karroubi keeps up heat as Iran panel says he harms regime (AFP)

Obama says status quo no solution on health care (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:16 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama assailed critics of his health care initiative Saturday, seeking to grab the megaphone from his opponents and boost momentum in his drive for congressional passage of his chief domestic priority.

White House wants talks to focus on Iran's nukes (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - The White House said Saturday that international talks with Iran should focus on the country's nuclear program, a topic Tehran had ruled off limits until its foreign minister opened the door.

Thousands of downtown D.C. protesters blast Obama (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:45 PM PDT AP - Tens of thousands of protesters fed up with government spending marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, showing their disdain for the president's health care plan with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" and "I'm not your ATM."

China: Trade penalties will hurt US relations (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:34 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's decision to impose trade penalties on Chinese tires has infuriated Beijing at a time when the U.S. badly needs Chinese help on climate change, nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea and the global economy.

W.H. wants actions from Iran (Politico) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:19 PM PDT Politico - My story tonight:

Afghanistan: Questions, answers on war, US plans (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:07 PM PDT AP - The link between Afghanistan and al-Qaida has dimmed in memory in the eight years since the Sept. 11 attacks. Osama bin Laden remains at large. The fighting grinds on.

Health care faces some big legislative bottlenecks (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:29 PM PDT AP - The fierce national debate over health care is entering a new phase, with advocates on all sides focused on a few legislative bottlenecks that will determine the ultimate overhaul of the $2.5 trillion medical care system.

Avoiding the financial abyss: Success, no glory (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - Halting the financial sector's death plunge is arguably the government's most measurable achievement this year. Yet as President Barack Obama observes the one-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse, his administration's increasingly sunny assessment of Wall Street's rebound faces a hard sell.

Friendly crowd at Frank's Mass. health care forum (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:39 PM PDT AP - Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's latest town hall meeting on health care reform was much calmer than one last month, when a protester held a poster portraying the president as Hitler.

State lawmakers try to halt health care changes (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 04:55 PM PDT AP - Republicans in more than a dozen states opposed to President Barack Obama's push for health care overhaul have mounted state-driven efforts to block federal intervention in health care, with some early success.

Honduras' interim president: US revoked my visas (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:44 PM PDT AP - Washington has revoked the visas of Honduras' interim president and 17 other top officials to pressure the Central American nation to reinstate ousted leader Manuel Zelaya, Honduras' government said Saturday.

W.H. wants concrete actions from Iran (Politico) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:37 PM PDT Politico - The Obama Administration and its allies will insist that Iran's vague offer to open negotiations be followed quickly with concrete actions to slow or halt its nuclear program, a senior administration official said.

Can Obama Woo Skeptics After Health-Care-Reform Speech? (Time.com) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:20 PM PDT Time.com - The President's health-care address was more targeted at the public than the Congress, but now he has to focus his powers of persuasion on the skeptics in his own backyard

Obama warns against scare tactics over healthcare (Reuters) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:25 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama warned Americans on Saturday not to be tricked by "scare tactics" he accused his opponents of using as he went on the road to rally support for his drive to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

McDonnell drops on-air F-bomb (Politico) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 01:16 PM PDT Politico - Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, had an out-of-character slip of the lip today, dropping an f-bomb during a live interview on radio station WTOP.

GOP's Brown Gets Massachusetts Senate Boost as Card Bows Out (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 01:01 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - Scott P. Brown, one of the handful of Republicans in the Massachusetts Senate, announced Saturday afternoon that he is a candidate for the state's vacant U.S. Senate seat. And his bid for the GOP nomination received a boost late Friday night when Andrew Card -- former chief of staff to President George W. Bush -- revealed that he will not run in the upcoming special election to replace the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

'Freedom fighters' take a stand in D.C. (Politico) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 12:35 PM PDT Politico - Conservative protesters from around the country flooded Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday, railing against what they called President Obama’s plan for government-run health care and Congress’s tax-and-spend policies.

Obama: Public option helps health care competition (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 11:46 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he wants to see a government-run option in the health care overhaul and remains open on "how to set this up."

Obama says US closer than ever to health reform (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 11:25 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is urging people to find common ground on health care for everyone in the U.S.

Karroubi keeps up heat as Iran panel says he harms regime (AFP) Posted: 12 Sep 2009 11:16 AM PDT AFP - An Iranian judiciary panel called on Saturday for action against key opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi, even as he kept up the heat by issuing a fresh challenge to the outcome of the June 12 election.

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