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• Analysis: Obama: anti-terror `system' can be fixed (AP)
• Stricter new smog limit would hit rural areas, too (AP)
• AP Source: More names going on terror watch list (AP)
• Advocacy groups raise concerns on health bill (AP)
• Unresolved questions for 2010 (Politico)
• US denies detained American in Cuba is a spy (AP)
• US readies new Mideast peace push (AP)
• Report: Sex abuse high at 13 juvenile centers (AP)
• Vicki Kennedy backs Coakley in Mass. Senate race (AP)
• Judges skeptical over Bagram detainees' request (AP)
• Obama says anti-terror 'buck' stops with him (AP)
• Baltimore mayor defiant after plea, resignation (AP)
• Pelosi, Obama officials to tour Detroit auto show (AP)
• Obama: 'My responsibility' (Politico)
• Kennedy endorsement comes at key time for Martha Coakley (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama, Democrats, to huddle next week on health (AFP)
• White House defends counterterror agency head (AP)
• Dodd, Dorgan Retirements Point to 2010 Election Fight (Time.com)
• Defense contractor suspended over kickbacks (AP)

Analysis: Obama: anti-terror `system' can be fixed (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 04:37 PM PST AP - Explaining the failure to head off the Christmas Day airline bomb plot, President Barack Obama blamed the "system." Yet his prescriptions for preventing a repeat of the near catastrophe amount to a tweaking of that system, not an overhaul on a scale of the post-9/11 reforms.

Stricter new smog limit would hit rural areas, too (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST AP - Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.

AP Source: More names going on terror watch list (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:06 PM PST AP - A government official says President Barack Obama will order U.S. agencies to move faster and more accurately in adding suspects to the watch lists designed to stop terrorists before they strike.

Advocacy groups raise concerns on health bill (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 04:17 PM PST AP - Advocacy groups lobbied President Barack Obama and Congress on Thursday, trying to eliminate what they called a "loophole" in Senate health care legislation they said could allow insurers to raise rates on customers based on their weight or blood sugar levels.

Unresolved questions for 2010 (Politico) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:17 AM PST Politico - This week's near-simultaneous retirement announcements by Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, along with Michigan Lt. Gov. John Cherry's abrupt withdrawal from the 2010 governor's race, delivered a sharp reminder that the landscape for this year's elections is far from fully settled.

US denies detained American in Cuba is a spy (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:41 PM PST AP - The State Department on Thursday denied a senior Cuban official's claim that a U.S. government contractor detained on the communist island is a spy, and the head of the man's company said he was working not with dissidents but with a religious and cultural group recognized by the Cuban government.

US readies new Mideast peace push (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:14 PM PST AP - In a flurry of meetings in Washington and in European capitals this week and next, senior administration officials will explore new approaches to bringing the two sides together.

Report: Sex abuse high at 13 juvenile centers (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:27 PM PST AP - Nearly one out of every three youths at 13 juvenile detention facilities have reported some type of sexual victimization, according to a government study issued Thursday that found widespread reports of youth sex abuse at correctional centers.

Vicki Kennedy backs Coakley in Mass. Senate race (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:10 PM PST AP - Edward Kennedy's widow has formally endorsed Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in the race for her late husband's U.S. Senate seat.

Judges skeptical over Bagram detainees' request (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:43 PM PST AP - A federal appeals court panel expressed deep skepticism Thursday about giving three detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan the same right to challenge their indefinite detention as prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Obama says anti-terror 'buck' stops with him (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures that led to the near-disastrous Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner and vowing the problems would be corrected. He said the lapses were widespread but suggested no officials would be fired.

Baltimore mayor defiant after plea, resignation (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:25 PM PST AP - Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is refusing to back down from her claims that she was forced from office.

Pelosi, Obama officials to tour Detroit auto show (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:15 PM PST AP - Months after the government took large ownership stakes in General Motors, Chrysler and auto lender GMAC Financial Services, top lawmakers and members of the Obama administration will be taking a close look at their investment.

Obama: 'My responsibility' (Politico) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:59 PM PST Politico - President Barack Obama on Thursday accepted responsibility for intelligence shortcomings that led to a failed Christmas Day bombing plot on a Detroit-bound airliner, saying, “Ultimately, the buck stops with me.

Kennedy endorsement comes at key time for Martha Coakley (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:19 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - There was a brass band and a feeling of old-time politics as members of the Kennedy clan gathered Thursday to endorse Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in the special election to fill Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat.

Obama, Democrats, to huddle next week on health (AFP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:59 PM PST AFP - President Barack Obama will personally push his Democratic allies in the US Congress next week to approve a sweeping remake of US health care at their annual retreat, a top lawmaker said Thursday.

White House defends counterterror agency head (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:15 PM PST AP - The White House is throwing its support behind National Counterterrorism Director Michael Leiter, defending him against a news report that suggested he was vacationing during the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas and its aftermath.

Dodd, Dorgan Retirements Point to 2010 Election Fight (Time.com) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 10:20 AM PST Time.com - If you thought health-care reform and climate change legislation were tough to get through, the emerging electoral landscape pretty much guarantees the Dems will take big hits in the Senate and House

Defense contractor suspended over kickbacks (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2010 10:16 AM PST AP - A defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha has been suspended again from bidding on government contracts, this time for paying more than $200,000 in kickbacks to another contractor turned government witness.

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