AP - Hundreds of Polish school kids are getting a leg up with free rubber boots as they face months next to a muddy construction site.

Reuters - President Barack Obama's budget plans would rack up $9.8 trillion more debt by 2020, or $1.2 trillion more than the White House has forecast, the Congressional Budget Office said on Friday.

AP - The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue — from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy — there's little or no effort to find common ground.

AP - The D.C. Medical Examiner's Office says the alleged shooter at the Pentagon has died.

Politico - An upcoming  nuclear policy review is calling attention to a past difference of views between Obama and Gates.

AP - President Barack Obama has green jobs on his agenda.

AFP - US President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his appeal to Congress to vote on his health care reform, arguing that any delay would allow insurance companies to continue their old practices.

AP - President Barack Obama is making a furious, final push to get a health care bill passed. But his effort threatens to shove aside the message he promised would top his to-do list this year: creating jobs.

AP - A British soldier who refused to serve in Afghanistan and spoke out against the war has been sentenced to nine months in jail.

AP - Tim Kaine spent President Barack Obama's first year in office pulling double duty as Virginia's governor and the Democratic National Committee chairman — and weathering criticism that he was an ineffective, absent party leader.

AP - The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue — from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy — there's little or no effort to find common ground.

AFP - The EU's under-fire foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton attempted to stem unease Friday over her position and what some see as a turf war over the top jobs in her new diplomatic service.

CQPolitics.com - Illinois politicians complained about the burdens imposed by the state's record-early Feb. 2 primary date, smack in the middle of a typically harsh winter. But for Bill Brady, Illinois' newly certified Republican nominee for governor, there might be an unexpected benefit.

AP - Tim Kaine spent President Barack Obama's first year in office pulling double duty as Virginia's governor and the Democratic National Committee chairman — and weathering criticism that he was an ineffective, absent party leader.

Reuters - The United Nations could begin withdrawing troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, as early as June, the peacekeeping chief said Friday.

CQPolitics.com - Here's a change that everyone should believe in: The federal government, after almost 50 years, is about to alter the way it measures poverty in the United States. It's about time.

Politico - From a glitzy new office in downtown Washington, the ideological war over the media is fully engaged.

AP - The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue — from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy — there's little or no effort to find common ground.

AP - Amid criticism that he's too moderate, Sen. John McCain on Saturday said the Arizona GOP Senate primary should be about fixing the economy, not political ideology.

AP - The current partisan divide is as stark and nasty as any in recent history and on almost every issue — from health care to energy independence to reviving the economy — there's little or no effort to find common ground.

AP - U.S. Sen. John McCain says the race for the Republican nomination for the seat he currently holds should be about fixing the economy, not about political ideology.

AP - China said Sunday that it is up to the United States to improve relations that soured over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama.