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• Obama to meet with Netanyahu, Abbas (AP)
• Toughest test coming up for health care overhaul (AP)
• Did ACORN get too big for its own good? (AP)
• Obama rolling into week of high diplomatic stakes (AP)
• Romney rouses Values Voters (Politico)
• At summit, Asian leaders to press for greater role (AP)
• GOP lawmaker warns of dangers in health overhaul (AP)
• Obama: G-20 summit should assess economic progress (AP)
• Former CIA heads ask Obama to quash probe (AP)
• Huckabee is tops in conservatives' straw vote (AP)
• Obama to hold joint meeting with Netanyahu, Abbas (Reuters)
• Obama, family out in Georgetown (AP)
• Palin emerges as Facebook phenom (Politico)
• Official: FCC to propose 'Net neutrality' rules (AP)
• Senate jockeying begins on Baucus bill (Politico)
• Obama extends greetings on Muslim holiday (AP)
• U.S. Officials Probe Union Chief’s Political Actions (Bloomberg)
• Obama touts reform in advance of G-20 (Politico)
• Obama's first dance at the U.N. (Politico)
• Obama seeks to reassure G20 on financial reforms (Reuters)

Obama to meet with Netanyahu, Abbas (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to lay the groundwork for renewed negotiations on Mideast peace.

Toughest test coming up for health care overhaul (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT AP - Keep going. You don't have to fix all of it now. Just please don't let it stall. That's the essence of the message that Senate Democratic leaders have for their Finance Committee senators, who plan to start voting Tuesday on a remake of the nation's health care system.

Did ACORN get too big for its own good? (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:48 PM PDT AP - Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help the poor in Arkansas and quickly went national, growing into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man it backed is the president. Oh yeah, it's also the unwilling star of a hot Internet video featuring a couple dressed as a hooker and her pimp.

Obama rolling into week of high diplomatic stakes (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:36 PM PDT AP - The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to "change the world."

Romney rouses Values Voters (Politico) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 12:52 PM PDT Politico - Mitt Romney used an address Saturday at a social conservative conference to critique President Obama on fiscal and defense issues, largely ignoring such issues as abortion and gay rights.

At summit, Asian leaders to press for greater role (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT AP - Asian leaders at this week's economic summit will demand a greater voice in the way global financial institutions make crucial decisions. Likewise, the world's established powers will have some demands of their own.

GOP lawmaker warns of dangers in health overhaul (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT AP - A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment.

Obama: G-20 summit should assess economic progress (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 02:57 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says the world's leading economic powers have made progress in stabilizing the global financial system but much work remains to produce needed jobs and growth.

Former CIA heads ask Obama to quash probe (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - Seven former CIA directors who served both Republican and Democratic presidents have asked President Barack Obama to end the Justice Department's criminal probe into the harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.

Huckabee is tops in conservatives' straw vote (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:52 PM PDT AP - A straw vote suggests former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is a favorite among religious conservatives to be president in 2012.

Obama to hold joint meeting with Netanyahu, Abbas (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 04:45 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to try to restart peace talks between the two sides, the White House said.

Obama, family out in Georgetown (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:56 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama, wife Michelle and their two daughters were spending the evening in Georgetown at the home of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Palin emerges as Facebook phenom (Politico) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:19 PM PDT Politico - Since resigning her post as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has essentially gone dark, making almost no public appearances and successfully avoiding the media outlets that are clamoring to talk to her.

Official: FCC to propose 'Net neutrality' rules (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:58 PM PDT AP - The head of the FCC plans to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks, an official at the agency said Saturday.

Senate jockeying begins on Baucus bill (Politico) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 11:52 AM PDT Politico - Members of the Senate Finance Committee filed more than 500 amendments to Chairman Max Baucus’s health care reform bill, setting the stage for a markup next week that will lay bare differences between the parties on overhauling the health care system.

Obama extends greetings on Muslim holiday (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 09:39 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is extending greetings to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr (ayd ahl-FIH'-tur), which marks the end of the holy monthlong fasting time known as Ramadan.

U.S. Officials Probe Union Chief’s Political Actions (Bloomberg) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 07:11 AM PDT Bloomberg - Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Federal investigators are probing whether a local union president at a Pennsylvania U.S. Energy Department laboratory improperly helped President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign on government time by using government facilities, union lawyers said.

Obama touts reform in advance of G-20 (Politico) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 05:20 AM PDT Politico - In advance of the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh next week, President Barack Obama is seeking to harness lingering anger against Wall Street to give some momentum to regulatory reform legislation that’s been languishing on Capitol Hill.

Obama's first dance at the U.N. (Politico) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 05:15 AM PDT Politico - Tom DeLay may be Dancing with the Stars, but it's President Barack Obama who'll need some fancy footwork next week as he tries to dodge the dictators during his first-ever visit to the United Nations.

Obama seeks to reassure G20 on financial reforms (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2009 03:53 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday to work with fellow G20 leaders next week to close gaps in financial regulations and insisted reckless schemes that yield "fat executive bonuses" could no longer be tolerated.

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