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Obama, Palin trade telling jibes over crib sheets (AP)

$\"FILE$ AP - The jokes about Barack Obama's close relationship with his teleprompter have been constant since he became president.

Obama would OK health bill minus items he pursued (AP)

$\"President$ AP - Signaling he'd meet critics part way on health care, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's willing to sign a bill even if it doesn't deliver everything he pursued through a year of grinding effort at risk of going down as a dismal failure.

PROMISES, PROMISES: War widows' futile fight (AP)

$\"Kimberly$ AP - For a decade, war widows in matching yellow suit jackets and hats quietly and persistently have knocked on Capitol Hill doors seeking an end to the \"widows' tax,\" a government policy that deprives them of benefits from their husbands' military service.

The nuking of Dan Coats (Politico)
Politico - Democrats launch a withering assault on the former GOP senator's prospective candidacy.

Bond: Brennan 'needs to go' (Politico)
Politico - GOP criticism of counterterrorism intensifies.

AP sources: FAA eyes hefty fines for American (AP)
AP - The Federal Aviation Administration is close to wrapping up a two-year investigation of safety violations at American Airlines that could result in one of the largest fines in the agency's history, according to government and industry officials familiar with the investigation.

Gov't fitness efforts haven't stemmed kid obesity (AP)

$\"First$ AP - First lady Michelle Obama isn't the first national leader to try to get America's kids off the couch. President Dwight D. Eisenhower tried more than 50 years ago, and it's been a losing battle since.

NY senator who dragged girlfriend fights expulsion (AP)

$\"Sen.$ AP - A Democratic state senator who betrayed his colleagues by joining Republicans in a brief coup and was convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge for dragging his girlfriend around during an argument at his apartment says he'll go back to court to fight his expulsion from the Senate.

La. lieutenant governor elected New Orleans mayor (AP)

$\"New$ AP - Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu has been elected mayor of New Orleans, replacing term-limited Ray Nagin and becoming the majority-black city's first white mayor since 1979.

Souter to speak at Harvard's commencement (AP)
AP - Harvard University says retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter will be the principal speaker at its spring commencement ceremony.

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