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• Obama says US prepared to assist Chile if asked (AP)
• Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act (AP)
• AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run (AP)
• Obama to GOP on health care: `Let's get this done' (AP)
• Supreme Court scrutinizes state, local gun control (AP)
• Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review (AP)
• Obama in a bind over Armenian genocide vote (AP)
• Obama selects campaign adviser as social secretary (AP)
• US military monitoring situation after Chile quake (AP)
• Organized labor's agenda hits roadblock; what now? (AP)
• Nelson Fighting Like It's 2012 (CQPolitics.com)
• Colombia election race starts, Santos favored (Reuters)
• Shock over voided Puerto Rican birth certificates (AP)
• First dad watches daughter hoop it up in Maryland (AP)
• Rangel refuses to step aside after ethics slap (AP)
• White House social secretary Rogers resigning (AP)
• U.S. lawmakers get details of Pakistan aid plan (Reuters)

Obama says US prepared to assist Chile if asked (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 01:29 PM PST AP - The U.S. "will be there" if Chile asks for rescue and recovery help after a powerful earthquake struck the South American nation, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:11 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.

AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:11 PM PST AP - A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Obama to GOP on health care: `Let's get this done' (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:35 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward. "Let's get this done," he said.

Supreme Court scrutinizes state, local gun control (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 07:41 AM PST AP - Gun control advocates are hoping they can win by losing when the Supreme Court rules on state and local regulation of firearms.

Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:04 PM PST AP - The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports.

Obama in a bind over Armenian genocide vote (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is in a bind as a House committee prepares to vote on a resolution that would recognize the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

Obama selects campaign adviser as social secretary (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:26 AM PST AP - It didn't take long for the White House to name the next social secretary.

US military monitoring situation after Chile quake (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 06:14 AM PST AP - The Pentagon says it's had no reports that the big earthquake in Chile has affected the U.S. military in the region — on land or at sea.

Organized labor's agenda hits roadblock; what now? (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 04:35 PM PST AP - Labor's high hopes for major gains under President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress have dimmed, raising fresh doubts about union leverage even in the best of political times.

Nelson Fighting Like It's 2012 (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 11:37 AM PST CQPolitics.com - As a dangerous election cycle unfolds for Democrats, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has been proactive -- hitting statewide television to defend his controversial health care vote and on Wednesday becoming the only member of his party to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) jobs package.

Colombia election race starts, Santos favored (Reuters) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 09:31 AM PST Reuters - The race for Colombia's presidency began Saturday, with former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos the favorite after the South American nation's popular incumbent was blocked from running for a third term.

Shock over voided Puerto Rican birth certificates (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 07:46 AM PST AP - Native Puerto Ricans living outside the island territory are reacting with surprise and confusion after learning their birth certificates will become no good this summer.

First dad watches daughter hoop it up in Maryland (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 06:31 AM PST AP - The first dad is watching one of his daughters hoop it up.

Rangel refuses to step aside after ethics slap (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2010 10:11 PM PST AP - Rep. Charles Rangel said Friday he won't step down as chairman of the powerful House tax-writing committee after being admonished by an ethics panel for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. The public rebuke of one of the Democrats' most outspoken leaders posed more woes for a party that had vowed to end a "culture of corruption."

White House social secretary Rogers resigning (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2010 10:10 PM PST AP - White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner and she was heavily criticized for her role in allowing the embarrassing episode to happen.

U.S. lawmakers get details of Pakistan aid plan (Reuters) Posted: 26 Feb 2010 07:52 PM PST Reuters - The Obama administration sent lawmakers this week a plan for $1.45 billion in aid for Pakistan this year, funding water, energy and other projects as well as a media campaign to counter extremist views.

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