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• Obama budget has $556 billion, six-year transport plan (Reuters)
• House votes to extend anti-terror provisions (Reuters)
• U.S. charges 7 men in Taliban drug, missile sting (Reuters)
• Orgasm, Inc.: New Documentary Exposes Big Pharma's Search for a Female Viagra (Time.com)
• Safe Scanning: New TSA Body Imaging Pacifies Modest Travelers (Time.com)
• Former USDA official accused of racism sues (Reuters)
• 'Never missed a Super Bowl' member dies at age 79 (AP)
• Guilty plea in 2009 Tennessee infant kidnapping (AP)
• Police: Gunman apprehended on Tenn. campus (AP)
• Sept. 11 memorial to have limited access for years (AP)
• Al-Qaida member who aided London bombers released (AP)
• Ariz. may require hospitals to check citizenship (AP)
• House extends key provisions of Patriot Act (AP)
• AP Enterprise: Gulf claims process under fire (AP)
• Obama's health care budget: ER visit but no cure (AP)
• How the Obama budget might fall on your shoulders (AP)
• Census data highlights travails of Katrina victims (AP)
• Las Vegas wedding chapels deal with love recession (AP)
• No indictment in NY football player shooting death (AP)

Obama budget has $556 billion, six-year transport plan (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 02:00 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed an ambitious long-term transport spending plan in his 2012 budget as a way to boost U.S. economic competitiveness and spur job growth.

House votes to extend anti-terror provisions (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:11 PM PST Reuters - The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Monday to extend expiring surveillance provisions of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act, overcoming unanticipated early opposition.

U.S. charges 7 men in Taliban drug, missile sting (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 12:00 PM PST Reuters - U.S. prosecutors on Monday accused seven men of trying to sell weapons and smuggle drugs to people they believed were Taliban militants.

Orgasm, Inc.: New Documentary Exposes Big Pharma's Search for a Female Viagra (Time.com) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:15 AM PST Time.com - From Orgasmatron implants to female Viagra, a poignant (and often hilarious) documentary lays bare how drug companies are not only trying to sell women drugs -- they're trying to sell a disorder

Safe Scanning: New TSA Body Imaging Pacifies Modest Travelers (Time.com) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 07:15 AM PST Time.com - The Transportation Security Administration is field testing a new technology that will hopefully keep your unmentionables out of sight

Former USDA official accused of racism sues (Reuters) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:45 PM PST Reuters - A former U.S. Agriculture Department official who resigned under pressure last summer after conservative media depicted her as racist, has filed a defamation suit against the blogger who published an edited video of her remarks.

'Never missed a Super Bowl' member dies at age 79 (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 02:59 PM PST AP - One of the men featured in a Visa credit card television commercial for having never missed a Super Bowl has died. He was 79.

Guilty plea in 2009 Tennessee infant kidnapping (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:21 PM PST AP - A woman who posed as an immigration agent and snatched a 4-day-old baby from her mother at her Nashville home pleaded guilty Monday to a federal kidnapping charge.

Police: Gunman apprehended on Tenn. campus (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:43 PM PST AP - One person pulled out a gun and shot another in the hand during an argument in a Middle Tennessee State University classroom building, then tried to hide by blending in among other students before being caught by police, authorities said Monday.

Sept. 11 memorial to have limited access for years (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:46 PM PST AP - The Sept. 11 memorial will open in the World Trade Center's footprints by the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks, but for years afterward access will be limited to a set number of people and mourners will be surrounded on all sides by the noise of construction, the memorial foundation president said Monday.

Al-Qaida member who aided London bombers released (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:42 PM PST AP - An al-Qaida operative who helped set up the camp where the 2005 London suicide bombers were trained has been sentenced to 10 years of probation after serving only five years in prison.

Ariz. may require hospitals to check citizenship (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:38 PM PST AP - Republican lawmakers want to widen Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to check on whether patients are in the country legally, causing outrage among medical professionals who fear becoming de facto immigration agents under the law.

House extends key provisions of Patriot Act (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 04:24 PM PST AP - The House on Monday agreed to a 10-month extension of three key law enforcement powers in the fight against terrorism that some privacy advocates from both the right and left regard as infringements on civil liberties.

AP Enterprise: Gulf claims process under fire (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 02:26 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama vowed during a White House speech last June that the $20 billion he helped coax out of BP for an oil spill compensation fund would take care of victims "as quickly, as fairly and as transparently as possible."

Obama's health care budget: ER visit but no cure (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:06 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama's budget fixes a looming cut to doctors that could devastate Medicare, but it offers no cure for the underlying problem of rising health care costs that threatens to break the bank.

How the Obama budget might fall on your shoulders (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:19 PM PST AP - Crumbling inner-city sidewalks, cleaner air, dirtier drinking water, more debt for some college students and higher heating costs for low-income families could be part of the legacy of President Barack Obama's proposed budget. One way or another, his effort to save money in hundreds of programs might touch every American.

Census data highlights travails of Katrina victims (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:22 PM PST AP - Nearly 30,000 Hurricane Katrina victims were forced to live in five or more homes after the storm hit, Census data released Monday showed, and about the same number said their permanent living situation was still in flux.

Las Vegas wedding chapels deal with love recession (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:30 PM PST AP - Eriess Davis didn't want a traditional wedding: No conservative music and rows of unfamiliar guests. She wanted A Little White Chapel, in glitzy Las Vegas.

No indictment in NY football player shooting death (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2011 03:40 PM PST AP - A grand jury determined Monday that a police officer did not commit a crime when he shot and killed a college football player through the windshield of the student's car.

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