Politico - Al Gore and Bill Clinton are increasingly showing up as Obama goes through his first real trials in office.

AP - Two Syrians previously held at Guantanamo Bay have arrived in Portugal as free men, the government said Saturday.

AP - The world's youngest round-the-world sailor has returned to Britain after charting some 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers).

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — It wasn't a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez three years ago after nine days in Iraq.

Politico - Senator's three Portuguese water dogs brought fun to a workplace known for rules and formalities.

Politico - Republican challengers find new way of capitalizing on the roiling emotions surrounding town halls.

AP - An armed group kidnapped two foreign civilians working for the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Saturday, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said.

AP - The son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch has called the British Broadcasting Corp. a threat to independent journalism.

AP - When is swine flu just miserable and when do you need a doctor?

AP - A leading Democratic senator says the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy would have been ready to compromise on overhauling health care, but negotiations had not yet reached that point.

AP - A former Pennsylvania state senator convicted on fraud charges is scheduled to report to federal prison in Kentucky on Monday.

Reuters - Armed men seized two foreign civilians working for Darfur's peacekeeping force on Saturday, the first time the joint U.N./African Union mission has been targeted by kidnappers.

AP - Did they disagree on national security policy decisions? Certainly. But was Dick Cheney frustrated or even disappointed when overruled by his boss, President George W. Bush? Not at all, the former vice president says.

AP - Democratic lawmakers said Sunday the best way for Congress to honor the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is to set aside the heated rhetoric of the health care debate and pass a plan that cuts costs and extends coverage. A key Republican said he doubts any Democrats in Congress have the force of personality to pull it off.

AP - President Barack Obama spent his last day on a Martha's Vineyard vacation buying ice cream treats at a general store and a cookie at a nearby deli.

AP - Before home soccer games in this Basque city, local fans wearing their team's red-and-white jersey cram into bars and streets around the San Mames stadium and chant, full-throated, Athletic Bilbao's traditional call to arms.

AP - Did they disagree on national security policy decisions? Certainly. But was Dick Cheney frustrated or even disappointed when overruled by his boss, President George W. Bush? Not at all, the former vice president says.

Politico - He dismisses the interrogations investigation 'political' and mocks Obama's plan as 'silly.'

AP - The Basque Country: This region of northern Spain became semiautonomous in 1979 after a new Spanish Constitution was adopted following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Its capital is Vitoria, its biggest city is Bilbao.

AP - Besieged during the Bush administration for bending to the White House's will, the Justice Department is again accused of playing politics with cases — this time in investigating whether CIA interrogators illegally abused terror suspects.

Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The widow of the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy should be considered as an interim appointee to represent Massachusetts in his place, two U.S. senators said.

Politico - PBS's Bill Moyers issues a tough critique of the Dem Party on HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher.'

AFP - US President Barack Obama headed back to Washington Sunday after a week-long vacation on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard, interrupted by a crush of outside events.

Politico - The AFL-CIO is betting big in N.J. and Va., where critical gubernatorial races are taking place in November.

Politico - In the tradition of other daughters of prominent Republicans, Jenna Bush Hager wades into the media waters.

AFP - Lawmakers on Sunday suggested that the senate seat held by late US Senator Ted Kennedy could be filled by his widow, Vicki, despite her professed reluctance to take the job.

Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Congress is less likely to pass sweeping health-care overhaul legislation following the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading Republican said.

AP - Russian media are reporting that Arctic Sea crew members have returned home after being held in Moscow for questioning about the freighter's mysterious voyage.

Bloomberg - Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congress is less likely to pass sweeping health-care overhaul legislation following the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading Republican said yesterday.