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• Alaska governor refusing to enact health care law (AP)
• Senate would limit subsidies for rural air service (AP)
• White House aims to revamp education law by summer (AP)
• PG&E: San Bruno blast to cost twice prior estimate (AP)
• HI lawmaker: Obama birth certificate bill tabled (AP)
• Palin rejects new gun laws, vague on 2012 plans (AP)
• Memos: Firefighter refused call to Tucson shooting (AP)
• House votes to overturn FCC Internet rules (Reuters)
• Ex-whistle-blower protector asks to withdraw plea (AP)
• Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill (AP)
• Census shows huge Hispanic growth in Texas (AP)
• Correction: Patriot Act (AP)
• US rep: Agents ambushed by drug gang in Mexico (AP)
• NH lawmakers urged to scrap gay marriage repeal (AP)
• Giffords is alert, one of first words was 'better' (AP)
• Manipulative Media: How to Spin Fabrications and Influence Politics (ContributorNetwork)
• Democrats leave Wisconsin to protest union curbs (Reuters)
• US seeks to avoid UN vote on Israeli settlements (AP)
• Dodd-Frank tensions headline Senate hearing (Reuters)
• Highlights of $1.2 trillion GOP spending bill (AP)

Alaska governor refusing to enact health care law (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:18 PM PST AP - Gov. Sean Parnell took a defiant stand Thursday against the federal health care overhaul Congress passed last year, declaring that he will refuse to implement a law he views as blatantly unconstitutional.

Senate would limit subsidies for rural air service (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:16 PM PST AP - The Senate has agreed to impose new restrictions on small, often remote airports receiving federally subsidized airline service.

White House aims to revamp education law by summer (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:06 PM PST AP - The Obama administration set a goal Thursday of revamping the federal No Child Left Behind education law before students start the next school year in the fall, a timeframe likely to clash with the priorities of congressional Republicans.

PG&E: San Bruno blast to cost twice prior estimate (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:53 PM PST AP - Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s parent company says costs related to September's deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno will be twice as high as the company previously expected.

HI lawmaker: Obama birth certificate bill tabled (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:51 PM PST AP - A proposal to sell copies of President Barack Obama's birth records to anyone for $100 is going nowhere in the Hawaii Legislature.

Palin rejects new gun laws, vague on 2012 plans (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:50 PM PST AP - Sarah Palin, in a rare public appearance at which reporters were allowed, praised lawmakers threatening to vote against raising the federal debt ceiling. She stuck to her guns on "death panels" Thursday and continued tweaking the first lady's efforts to fight childhood obesity, but she chided some of her own supporters for sustaining the "annoying" claims that President Barack Obama is foreign-born and Muslim.

Memos: Firefighter refused call to Tucson shooting (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:50 PM PST AP - A veteran firefighter refused to respond to last month's deadly shooting spree that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded because he had different political views than his colleagues and "did not want to be part of it," according to internal city memos.

House votes to overturn FCC Internet rules (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST Reuters - The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to overturn proposed rules that bar Internet service providers from blocking legal content but give some discretion to ration access for bandwidth hogs.

Ex-whistle-blower protector asks to withdraw plea (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:15 PM PST AP - The former government protector of whistle-blowers who admitted to criminally withholding information from Congress asked a judge Thursday to withdraw his guilty plea to avoid mandatory jail time.

Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:10 PM PST AP - Faced with a near-certain Republican victory that would end a half-century of collective bargaining for public workers, Wisconsin Democrats retaliated with the only weapon they had left: They fled.

Census shows huge Hispanic growth in Texas (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:15 PM PST AP - Ethnic minorities accounted for 89 percent of the staggering growth in Texas over the past decade, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau that support projections putting Hispanics on pace to soon outnumber whites in the nation's second-largest state.

Correction: Patriot Act (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:52 PM PST AP - In story Feb. 15 about the Senate voting to extend antiterrorism measures, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a "lone wolf" provision in a 2004 law permits secret intelligence surveillance of non-U.S. individuals not known to be linked to a specific terrorist activity.

US rep: Agents ambushed by drug gang in Mexico (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:45 PM PST AP - Gunmen from Mexico's ruthless Zetas drug gang carried out a highway ambush that killed one U.S. federal agent and wounded another this week, a Texas congressman said Thursday.

NH lawmakers urged to scrap gay marriage repeal (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:38 PM PST AP - Undeterred by the likelihood that no vote will take place until next year, hundreds of supporters of New Hampshire's gay marriage law spent hours Thursday urging lawmakers to reject efforts to repeal it.

Giffords is alert, one of first words was 'better' (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:18 PM PST AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is laughing at jokes and eating sushi and even spoke the word "better" when asked recently by her husband how she was doing. Her doctor describes her as a hard worker who diligently completes her therapy each day.

Manipulative Media: How to Spin Fabrications and Influence Politics (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:56 PM PST ContributorNetwork - Fox News is making headlines for alleged media deception to its viewers by airing erroneous footage from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), depicting Texas Congressman Ron Paul's recent straw poll win with boos from a sea of Mitt Romney supporters.

Democrats leave Wisconsin to protest union curbs (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:38 PM PST Reuters - Democrats in the Wisconsin Senate left the state on Thursday in a boycott of a vote to curb the union rights of public employees, attempting to force majority Republicans to negotiate a compromise.

US seeks to avoid UN vote on Israeli settlements (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:34 PM PST AP - Stuck in a diplomatic bind, the Obama administration scrambled Thursday to avert a difficult U.N. Security Council vote on a Palestinian-backed resolution condemning Israeli settlements. President Barack Obama raised the subject in a call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after other attempts to sway him failed.

Dodd-Frank tensions headline Senate hearing (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:34 PM PST Reuters - Republicans escalated their push to delay and defund the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms on Thursday as top regulators warned the Senate Banking Committee of a staff and funding crunch.

Highlights of $1.2 trillion GOP spending bill (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:21 PM PST AP - Republicans controlling the House are advancing a $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill to wrap up the unfinished 2011 spending bills they inherited from Democrats. The measure cuts $61 billion from the 2010 bills endorsed by President Barak Obama. Highlights include:

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