AP - Not tonight, dear.

AP - Small-plane and helicopter pilots traverse the Grand Canyon, skirt the rims of Hawaiian volcanos, and soar along crowded urban skyways that are sometimes literally under the radar, relying mostly on their eyes to guide them. Nowhere is that more challenging than in the narrow air corridor over the Hudson River.

Time.com - The House of Representatives has added $330 million to its version of the defense budget, to buy planes to ferry its members around in style

AP - As hundreds of thousands of clunkers head to the scrap yard, General Motors has dropped out of a partnership that collects toxic parts from recycled automobiles to prevent mercury pollution.

AFP - The corn-rich heartland US state of Iowa will look a bit like a United Nations summit come mid-August, as diplomats from some 70 countries make an bi-annual pilgrimage meant to boost overseas trade.

AP - President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted a bill expanding legal reasons to deploy Russian troops abroad, the Kremlin said Monday.

Bloomberg - Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- “Buy American” rules that Congress included in the U.S. economic stimulus package don’t endanger free trade with Canada, President Barack Obama said after meeting with the leaders of Canada and Mexico.

Bloomberg - Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will defend his efforts to overhaul the U.S. health-care system at a town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, today after a series of protests met his fellow Democrats in recent days.

Politico - Simon says today we live in the age of rabid response.

Politico - Obama plans on hosting�some 30 countries to discuss securing nuclear arsenals. Will he invite Israel?

AFP - President Barack Obama was on Tuesday to explain what his plan to reform the US healthcare system would mean for Americans who already have insurance amid a growing furore over his proposed changes.

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Tuesday for the release of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, saying she 'should not have been convicted' on a charge of violating house arrest.

Politico - Founder and honorary chairperson of Special Olympics dies early this morning at Cape Cod Hospital.

AP - President Barack Obama is praising Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Tuesday at age 88, as 'an extraordinary woman' and a champion for the rights of the mentally disabled.

AP - A former United Nations employee who was upset about being passed over for a job has been accused of biting a security guard outside his boss's office.

CQPolitics.com - New York Democrats tapped first-time candidate Bill Owens as their nominee for the special election to succeed Republican Rep. John McHugh, setting up a battle with Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava that will likely hinge on which party can deliver turnout and which candidate can win over moderate voters.

Politico - Founder and honorary chairperson of Special Olympics dies early this morning at Cape Cod Hospital.

AP - An official of the Russian human rights group Memorial says a Chechen aid worker and her husband have been found dead, a day after they were kidnapped.

Bloomberg - Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will face voters to push his plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system during a town hall today in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after fellow Democrats have confronted protests at meetings in their home states.

Politico - Specter fires back at a raucous town hall audience that booed and jeered him for more than an hour.

AP - Someone spray-painted a swastika on a sign outside the office of a Georgia congressman who had a contentious community meeting on health care last week.

AP - NATO's new Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called Tuesday for a closer strategic partnership with Russia to tackle common security challenges.

AP - Nine bodies have been recovered from a Slovak coal mine following a fire and explosion, and 11 other people are also believed to have died, authorities said Tuesday.

Politico - President Barack Obama took direct aim at the vocal opponents who’ve been filling congressional town halls on health care Tuesday.

AP - Voter fears of a government takeover of health care and rampant costs were on stark display Tuesday at a longtime senator's noisy town hall, a session that underscored the challenge for President Barack Obama and Democrats in overhauling the nation's system.

AP - President Barack Obama is defending his health care overhaul against criticism that it would be a government takeover.

AP - The editor of a Kosovo newspaper said Tuesday he suspects that Islamist radicals have attacked the paper's Web site because it was covering the trial of a Kosovar charged in the United States with plotting terrorist acts.

AP - Four European aid workers and two Kenyan pilots were released Tuesday after nine months as hostages in Somalia thanks to efforts by officials, religious leaders and businessmen to free them, Somalia's national security minister said.

AP - A civil rights icon who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott is headed to Washington to receive the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

AP - White House e-mails show that former White House political adviser Karl Rove was deeply involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico.

AP - General Motors Co. says it has submitted its executive compensation proposal to the Obama administration.

Politico - Documents released today�show he�played a critical role in the firing of the U.S. attorney in 2006.

AP - Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd has undergone surgery for prostate cancer.

AP - The Geneva Conventions on warfare have survived a difficult phase since the 2001 attacks on the United States followed by the U.S.-led war on terror, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday.

Bloomberg - Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said debate over a proposed health-care overhaul should focus on the need to improve coverage against injury or illness and not “scare tactics” by opponents of his plan.

AP - Jeers and taunts drowned out Democrats calling for a health care overhaul at town halls Tuesday, and one lawmaker said a swastika was spray-painted at his office as debate turned to noisy confrontation over President Barack Obama's plan. The president himself was treated more respectfully.

AP - Former White House political adviser Karl Rove was deeply involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to White House e-mails and transcripts of closed-door testimony released Tuesday.

AP - ? August 2009: Josef Scheungraber, a 90-year-old former officer in the Nazi army, is convicted of murder for ordering the massacre of 10 civilians in a 1944 reprisal killing in Italy; sentenced to life. Scheungraber plans to appeal.

AP - He collected Nazi memorabilia and used his rottweiler to frighten her baby. She spent endless hours on the Internet and ignored the abuse heaped upon her child � until paramedics collected him from a blood-spattered crib.

CQPolitics.com - The House Judiciary Committee released thousands of pages of transcripts and e-mails Tuesday providing new details linking Karl Rove, top political adviser in the George W. Bush White House, to the firing of nine U.S. attorneys.

Bloomberg - Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. would send legal and financial experts to help the Democratic Republic of Congo manage its finances and take action to ensure mineral resources aren’t funding warring militias.

AP - Braced for a fight he never got, President Barack Obama went on the offensive in support of his health care plan Tuesday, urging a town hall audience not to listen to those who seek to 'scare and mislead the American people.'

AP - The GOP's top choice to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid next year has told party officials he's decided against a run for the Senate.

Politico - Two senators are using a prerogative known as a “hold” to prevent nomination�of�Rep. John McHugh.

Politico - Add former Sen. Rick Santorum to the list of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates.

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday was visibly moved by firsthand evidence of the brutality of war in eastern Congo, delivering an impassioned appeal for action to end to rampant sexual violence that she called 'evil in its basest form.'

AP - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's father and father-in-law will campaign in Idaho for Republican congressional candidate Vaughn Ward.

AP - An independent panel examining waste and fraud in wartime spending accused contracting giant KBR Inc. on Tuesday of resisting government oversight and failing to cut costs on support work in Iraq.

AP - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will begin airing 30-second ads in about 20 states Wednesday criticizing the Democratic proposal to offer optional government health coverage.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON � Karl Rove and other top officials in the George W. Bush White House were deeply involved in pushing for the ouster of several U.S. attorneys, notably including one in New Mexico, according to testimony and e-mails that the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee released Tuesday.

CQPolitics.com - Fiery town hall meetings and concern about costs are stoking opposition to President Obama and congressional Democrats' effort to overhaul the U.S. health care system, a new Rasmussen Reports survey shows.