AP - Is Vlado Trifunovic a traitor, war criminal or hero? It all depends on whom you ask in the war-scarred Balkans.

AP - Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. Some features of the legislation, which makes changes to the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve:

AP - President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill for one last strategy session with House Democrats before their health care vote.

AFP - US President Barack Obama on Saturday urged senators to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the US financial system that would include a new agency to protect consumers from Wall Street's excesses.

Politico - The House lines up to score some points and, at the last minute, the Senate yanks away the ball.

AP - For American forces fighting their way north to Rome, it was the site of a heroic but hopeless stand, where only eight men out of two Ranger battalions escaped German troops.

AFP - A EU-Balkans summit aimed at speeding up the region's European integration in Slovenia this weekend suffered a blow as Serbian President Boris Tadic said he would not attend because of a row over Kosovo.

AFP - President Barack Obama on Saturday subtly shifted US rhetoric on Iran, pledging to ensure Iranians could access the Internet without fear of censorship, and blaming Tehran for isolating itself.

AP - Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's pen. Such a moment now seems near.

Politico - Obama uses his weekly address to discuss Wall St. reform a day before the health care vote.

AP - The U.S. needs major changes to its financial system so consumers are better protected, banks fortified and the economy safeguarded from sliding into another Depression, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

AP - President Barack Obama told Iranians in an online video message that the U.S. wants more educational and cultural exchanges, and lamented that Tehran's leaders have 'turned their backs' on good faith overtures in the past to expand opportunities for their people.

AP - House Democrats are moving closer toward enacting President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

AP - As part of Sunshine Week, when news organizations highlight the importance of government openness, the nation's new Freedom of Information Act ombudsman, Miriam Nisbet, took part in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

AP - The number of people living in slum conditions increased by 51 million during the past 10 years, despite global efforts to halt poverty, according to a United Nations' report released Friday.

Reuters - Almost a quarter of a billion people moved out of slum conditions in the past decade, driven by rapid economic growth in emerging giants India and China, but the number of people living in them continues to rise, the United Nations housing agency said on Friday.

Politico - House leaders have decided not to give Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) a vote on a strict ban on federal funding for abortion and will instead try to muster the 216 votes needed to send a health care overhaul to the president without his help, a Democratic aide confirmed.

AP - A top House Democrat says party leaders are unlikely to cut a deal with abortion opponents to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

AFP - Albania must resolve a political impasse on a contested parliamentary election as it could torpedo its aim of joining the European Union, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said Friday.

CQPolitics.com - If you blur your eyes enough, sometimes the imperfections in the image before you are miraculously erased. At the very least, the eye can be tricked into concentrating on what seems to be the true picture, which is no longer obscured by the messy details.

AP - Rooms were booked, limousines waiting, snipers staking out positions. Then President Barack Obama ditched plans to visit Guam, Indonesia and Australia — health care trumping Asia, an expected House vote Sunday grounding Air Force One's planned departure that day.

Politico - House leaders have decided not to give Stupak a vote on a strict ban on federal funding for abortion.

AP - As part of Sunshine Week, when news organizations highlight the importance of government openness, the nation's new Freedom of Information Act ombudsman, Miriam Nisbet, took part in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

AP - Democratic lawmakers say party leaders are considering winning crucial support from abortion foes for health care overhaul legislation with an executive order by President Barack Obama.

AP - Discontent is surging among some black advocates over President Barack Obama's refusal to target rising black unemployment, but many black residents in Charlotte, N.C., say they support his racially neutral approach to joblessness.

AP - President Barack Obama is encouraging House Democrats to finish work on his health care overhaul bill and has told them, 'We're going to get this done.'

AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he'll go to Japan this summer for talks with Toyota executives about the sudden acceleration problem plaguing some Toyotas.

AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he has enough votes to push changes in the health care overhaul bill through the Senate.

Politico - House leaders have decided not to give Stupak a vote on a strict ban on federal funding for abortion.

AP - A group of lawmakers had threatened to oppose President Barack Obama's health overhaul bill because of a dispute over Medicare payments to some doctors and hospitals.

AP - Britain's national debt is the key theme in the country's looming national election — but it's now news organizations, not just the country's government, racking up huge bills to meet the cost of covering the campaign.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — With Democrats increasingly confident they have enough support, the House of Representatives planned for an historic vote Sunday that would enact the most dramatic changes in the nation's health care system in decades.

Politico - Republican leaders talk of regaining majority.

Politico - Obama delivered the final pitch to the voters who now matter most in his party’s campaign.

AP - House Democrats heard it all Saturday — words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, including some racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress.

CQPolitics.com - Longtime state Rep. Rick Berg (R) will be North Dakota Republican's standard bearer in the race against Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.).

Politico - Clyburn compares language to that heard in effort “to get off the back of the bus” in 1960.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted 'nigger' Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.

Politico - Tea Party protesters hold the hill in a last ditch effort to kill the Democrat's health care bill.

Politico - If the House approves the bill it will be followed by a Senate re-write of the legislation.

AP - A congressman who was spat on by a protestor on Capitol Hill says he is declining to press charges, but turns out the Capitol Police say they made no arrests.

AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy's party braced for a potential electoral wipeout in Sunday's final round of regional elections, which an alliance of the rival left hopes will give it a national sweep and a staging ground for 2012 presidential voting.