AP - Turns out you can fear a government takeover of health care even if the government already took over your health care.

AP - American authorities are pressuring Yemen to counter a rising internal al-Qaida threat more aggressively and improve intelligence-sharing amid growing worries that the country could become the next significant terrorist staging ground.

AP - In the halls of liberalism, it's hard to imagine anyone filling such a void.

AP - Sen. Christopher Dodd says he'll push hard to win the far-reaching health care overhaul championed by Sen. Edward Kennedy, whom Dodd viewed almost like a brother.

AP - President Barack Obama and his family spent more than two hours at a private beach Wednesday and then he grabbed two big bags of fried seafood for lunch.

Time.com - The early returns from Afghanistan's presidential election had the smell of a decorous massage job

Bloomberg - Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Edward M. Kennedy’s death will likely set off a fight in Massachusetts for his U.S. Senate seat, with no obvious successor for a spot held by his family for almost all of the last 57 years.

Politico - Kennedy's endorsement may have won Obama the nomination. His legacy has already shaped Obama's presidency.

AP - British police are combing the upscale London neighborhood of Richmond, looking for things to steal.

AP - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says the focus should be on mourning Sen. Edward Kennedy and that questions surrounding his Senate vacancy can wait.

Politico - POLITICO's Arena contributors comment on the passing of Ted Kennedy.

Politico - Congress overflows with kind words about Sen. Ted Kennedy.

AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Germany's foreign minister on Thursday for talks focusing on the Mideast peace process and relations between Israel and Germany, officials said.

Reuters - A senior United Nations official condemned on Thursday Australia's controversial intervention into remote Aboriginal communities, describing the measures as discriminatory and finding entrenched racism in Australia.

AP - Turns out you can fear a government takeover of health care even if the government already took over your health care.

AP - Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.

AFP - A United Nations envoy slammed Australia's military-led intervention in remote Aboriginal communities and said racism was 'entrenched' in the country, in a damning assessment on Thursday.

AP - Australia breached international obligations on human and indigenous rights by imposing radical restrictions on Aborigines during a crackdown on child abuse in Outback communities, a United Nations expert said Thursday.

AP - For the first time, the Federal Election Commission has ruled that campaign funds can be used to help pay the legal bills of the current and former staff of a member of Congress.

Politico - Ever since news of Obama's reading picks went public, sales of the books have skyrocketed.

AFP - The governor of Massachusetts Thursday backed a poignant plea made by Edward Kennedy just days before his death for an interim successor to be swiftly appointed to the US Senate.

AP - Survivors and state officials are walking in a March of Remembrance in the central city of Lodz to mark 65 years since the deportation of the last Jews from the city's Litzmannstadt Ghetto.

AP - A key House liberal suggested Thursday that party moderates who've pushed for changes in health care legislation are 'brain dead' and out for insurance company campaign donations.

Politico - Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas announces at a press conference that he will not seek a fifth term in 2010.

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama is not going to referee groups who are using Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death to push for an overhaul of the nation's health care system.

AP - The Federal Election Commission says a conservative political group can use Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter's campaign donor list to inform givers of the senator's promise to return money to those upset by his switch.

AFP - President Barack Obama will travel to Boston late Friday night to ensure a looming tropical storm will not thwart his plans to attend Edward Kennedy's funeral, the White House said.

CQPolitics.com - Rep. Charlie Melancon has jumped into Louisiana's 2010 Senate race to challenge Republican David Vitter, giving Democratic campaign strategists one of their most sought-after recruits.

AP - With a bugler playing taps, a rifle squad firing 21 volleys and pallbearers representing each branch of the military, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be laid to rest in a private funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday.

Politico - Romney will not seek the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy’s death, a Romney spokesman says.

Politico - Pelosi sets goal of grass-roots fundraising in an attempt to fight GOP 'smears' against Dem health plan.

AP - The inspector general for the Veterans Affairs Department says that agency managers were aware of serious problems with a $70 million project to replace its hospital appointment system several years before the VA dropped the program.

AP - With the death of Edward M. Kennedy, seven seats in the Senate have been opened since the last election or soon will be, the most in any one year in six decades.

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union has written a letter in support of an autistic British man fighting to avoid extradition to the United States to face trial for hacking into military computers.

AP - With memories of the Holocaust as their backdrop, the leaders of Israel and Germany spoke Thursday about the need to keep the Jewish state safe from threats like a nuclear-armed Iran.

Reuters - The Obama administration unveiled new rules on Thursday for searching computers and other electronic devices when people enter the United States, attempting to address concerns about violating privacy and constitutional rights.

CQPolitics.com - The Federal Election Commission voted Thursday to let Rep. Peter J. Visclosky use campaign money to pay the legal bills of aides in connection with an ongoing federal investigation of the former lobbying firm, PMA Group.

Bloomberg - Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick could temporarily replace the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy as early as the fourth week in September under a timetable being considered by Democratic members of the Legislature, a key committee chairman said today.

AP - Barack Obama's first presidential vacation began with a hurricane, was interrupted for a major economic announcement and is ending with a sad eulogy for a famous friend.

AP - The Obama administration appears to be backing down on its insistence that Israel halt all settlement activity as a condition for restarting peace talks with the Palestinians.

Politico - Key conservatives charge Dems are inappropriately politicizing the senator’s death, memorial and legacy.

AP - As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama pledged to right the wrongs he said bogged down efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Seven months into the job, he's earning high praise from some unlikely places.

AP - After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration — champion of engaging adversaries — that does not.

AP - With a bugler playing taps, a rifle squad firing a salute and pallbearers representing each branch of the military, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be laid to rest in a private funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday.

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is considering action against Honduras in the wake of its military takeover, a move that could lead to suspension of millions in U.S. development aid, a senior State Department official said Thursday.

AP - A freshman Kansas congresswoman said Thursday that her remark about fellow Republicans seeking a 'great white hope' was not a reference to someone who could challenge President Barack Obama or his political agenda.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — As mourners began to gather in Boston Thursday to say farewell to Sen. Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts officials began moving to fill his seat quickly — but possibly with someone from outside the Kennedy family for the first time in 56 years.

CQPolitics.com - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has endorsed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's position that Massachusetts state law should be changed to allow for the appointment of an interim successor.

Bloomberg - Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick could temporarily replace the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy as early as the fourth week in September under a timetable being considered by Democratic members of the Legislature, a key committee chairman said today.

Politico - VP will provide a detailed update on the number of projects under way in a speech next week.

AP - After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration — champion of engaging adversaries — that does not.

AP - President Barack Obama hasn't even finished his Martha's Vineyard vacation and already he's being asked whether he'll come back next year.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual legal step, a federal judge has ordered the government to grant an attorney a security clearance so he can represent a disgruntled former narcotics officer.

Politico - Lawyers for the indicted former rep claim recently released Bush W.H. docs prove he was targeted in 2006.

Politico - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was as familiar a local figure in Boston as a city councilor from Southie.

AP - The Ohio Supreme Court says a company didn't discriminate against a mother who was fired for taking unauthorized breaks to pump milk from her breasts.

Bloomberg - Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- James Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said his union may not support Senator Arlen Specter in his re-election bid because the Republican-turned-Democrat hasn’t fully supported legislation making it easier for workers to organize.

AP - Freeze-dried food. Autopilot failures. Brutal storms. Accidental dunkings.

Bloomberg - Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Selection of a temporary successor to the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy could be made before the end of next month under a timetable being hashed out by Democratic members of the Legislature, according to a key committee chairman.