Advice on when flu needs TLC or a doctor’s care (AP)
AP - When is swine flu just miserable and when do you need a doctor?
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Labor gears up for key governors races (Politico)
Politico - The AFL-CIO is betting big in
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Return of swine flu: What’s ahead for Americans? (AP)
AP - The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world’s dominant strain of influenza, and it’s putting a shockingly younger face on flu.
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Democrats: Honor Kennedy through civil debate (AP)
AP - Democrats evoked memories of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Sunday in calling for a civil debate over plans to overhaul the nation’s health care system. A key Republican said Kennedy’s death leaves Democrats without a leader capable of forging a bipartisan compromise.
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Justice Dept. again fielding charges of politics (AP)
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.
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Chances of health compromise continue to fade (AP)
AP - A leading GOP negotiator on health care struck a further blow to fading chances of a bipartisan compromise by saying Democratic proposals would restrict medical choices and make the country’s “finances sicker without saving you money.”
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SC GOP vents anger over gov.’s extramarital affair (AP)
AP - Republican legislators fumed Saturday over Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair and questionable travel, though they stopped short of trying to force his resignation or impeachment before they return to the Statehouse in January.
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In health care debate, both sides cite Kennedy (Reuters)
Reuters - The day after U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy’s burial, leading Democratic and Republican senators on Sunday seized on his reputation for compromise to call for cooperation in the health care debate but showed little give in their own positions.
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DHS: Senators did not influence stimulus decisions (AP)
AP - The Obama administration said Friday that two Democratic senators falsely took credit for steering millions of dollars to projects in their home state, even as officials acknowledged that the Homeland Security secretary met with the lawmakers and discussed financing the projects.
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Obama still working on his eulogy (Politico)
Politico - The eulogy “is more about his impact on the country” than the president and senator’s relationship.
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